British Isis hostage John Cantlie has appeared in a new propaganda video
, criticising Obama's 'disappointingly predictable military strategy' against the terror group.
Wearing an orange Guantanamo-style jumpsuit and speaking directly to the camera, Cantlie attacks the West's plans to use Iraqi troops and Syrian rebels to fight Isis.
In a forced speech, Cantlie says organising the Iraqi army will take months, and describes the Free Syrian Army as an 'undisciplined, corrupt and largely ineffective fighting force.'
A new video from Isis has been posted online showing British hostage John Cantile criticising Obama's military strategy for combating the group
He also says that arming the Syrian rebels with Western weapons is 'largely useless', because many are sold on the black market and end up in the hands of Isis soldiers.
Speaking about U.S.-led airstrikes, Cantlie goes on to say: 'Air power is good at taking out specific targets but it is not much use a taking and holding ground.
'For that you need effective and disciplined troops and it is hard to see how this hotch-potch army with a long history of underprofming is going to be any form of credible infantry. '
At the start of the footage, Cantlie describes himself as a long-term prisoner of the Islamic State, and says he has been 'abandoned' by his government.
It is the third time Cantlie, a photo-journalist from Haslemere, Surrey, has appeared in an ISIS video.
At the start of last week, another video was posted online in which Cantlie said Obama was being sucked into Gulf War III, another conflict he could not win.
In the latest video, Cantlie appears sitting in a dark room behind a wooden desk similar to the previous video, while his beard and hair appear roughly the same length, meaning there was not much of a time gap between the two videos being shot.
In the footage Cantlie calls the strategy 'disappointingly predictable', criticises the Free Syrian Army as being 'undisciplined, corrupt and largely ineffective'
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