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In its latest act of terror, described by The Guardian as hateful and sectarian as that employed against Shia Muslims and the western journalists and aid workers beheaded by ISIS, the Islamic extremist group has now turned to Arab Christians
A man mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with ISIS, inside the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers south of Cairo, Egypt on 16 February 2015.
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The Islamic State have reportedly beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya as shown in a video posted online, purportedly showing the beheading of the captives on a beach
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The highly edited video, just like its previous videos, entitled "A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation of the Cross," opens with the men in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach purportedly on the Mediterranean by men in black with masks
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According to [BuzzFeed News](http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/isis-egypt-christians-beheading-video#.me1mMX8bO), the location is said to be near Tripoli, Libya, making it the first video in which ISIS apparently carried out an execution outside of the territory the militant group seized in Iraq and Syria.
The New York Times details the video as:
Implying that they are taking revenge for the killing of terrorist Osama bin Laden by American commandos and his burial at sea, a masked man holding a knife says the group is "chopping off the heads of those that have been carrying the cross illusion"
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"This filthy blood is just some of what awaits you," a caption declares, as blood from the beheaded Egyptian Coptic Christian prisoners darkens the waves
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The names of the slain Christians were released by the Coptic Church's Bishop Anba Ermia on Twitter, and translated into English by D.C.-based lawyer Mai El-Sadany
A man in southern Egypt is comforted by others as he mourns over Egyptian Coptic Christians who were beheaded by militants affiliated with ISIS on 16 February 2015
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At a sob filled Mass in Southern Egypt, male relatives of the beheaded grieved and some demanded vengeance a day after ISIS released the video showing the decapitation of 21 Copts, who were kidnapped in war-torn Libya in January
Black-clad women relatives, their hair covered, wailed as they mourned in a nearby house off a dusty narrow street of small adobe and red brick buildings
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In response to the mass beheading, Egyptian warplanes carried out airstrikes against ISIS targets, "achieving its goal and safely returning to its bases," said Egyptian Army
According to The BBC, Egypt did not give the locations of the air strikes, but a spokesman for Libya's internationally recognised Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said that Egyptian jets had taken part in co-ordinated air strikes on Derna
An image taken from a state-run television channel Al-Masriya broadcast after Egypt conducted airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday.
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