West hunt down militants of the ISIS Kassig killer

Maxime Hauchard

West hunt down militants of the ISIS Kassig killer

Maxime Hauchard, pejihad France believed to be Minister of France involvedcontraction Kassig.

Western intelligence officials tried to identify the militants of ISIS who was seen in a video showing a contraction aid workers United States Abdul-Rahman Kassig and 18prisoners of Syria.

Abdul-Rahman Kassig, a converted the formerly named Peter Kassig, 26, was the fifthWestern hostages killed by IS.

One suspected militant is a citizen of France named Maxime Hauchard, 22, said theInterior Minister of France.

The other, a militant was allegedly is a citizen of United Kingdom bernaman NasserMuthana, 20, following a report in the Daily Mail that mentions that his father AhmedMuthana, said "it looks like my child".

But Ahmed Muthana later said his son was not among the 16 jihadists in the video.

Interior Minister of France Bernard Cazeneuve said, French intelligence carried outanalysis "concluded that it is very likely that the French citizen take part directly in theawful crime".

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"The investigation is still in progress, but is believed that that person most likelyMaxime Hauchard, born in 1992, comes from the province of Eure, who went to Syriain August 2013, after living in Mauritania in 2012."

While in the United Kingdom, the father of Muthana, Ahmed, initially said it was his son, but then say that picture is too blurry and he was not sure.

He later said that although the video footage, not seen from the picture that alreadyhe sees he can make sure that it is not his son.

The person is standing right next to another man, who allegedly are militants of theUnited Kingdom called the "Jihadi John". He was dressed in black with front cover, while the other militants wearing army uniforms.

"Jihadi John" had appeared in the previous ISIS videos showing the contraction of theother Western hostages: two United Kingdom citizens Alan Henning and David Haines,as well as two U.S. journalist James Foley and Steven Sotloff. (BBC)