A Hollywood filmmaker’s son has joined the fight against Isis, as part of an Al Qaeda organization. According to CNN and multiple other media reports, 26-year-old Lucas Kinney, son of Patrick Kinney, an assistant director who has worked on such films as “Braveheart” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” has been identified as the man who appears in a series of propaganda videos from the terrorist organization. The younger Kinney converted from Catholicism to Islam while studying in Vienna, smuggled himself to Syria in 2013, and has since appeared in two videos from Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syrian group affiliated with Al Qaeda.
- 10/24/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
An al-Qaida supporter appearing in a recent video is the son of Patrick Kinney, who has numerous Hollywood film credits, CNN reports. Abu Basir Al-Britani can be seen in a video posted by website Intelligence Group, in which he criticizes Isis for bombing "the houses of innocent Muslims" in a village in northern Syria. He has a long beard and speaks in a British accent. According to CNN, the man is Lucas Kinney, a member of a branch of al-Qaida in Syria called al-Nusra. Kinney's father, Patrick Kinney, worked as an assistant director on multiple Steven Spielberg films, including
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- 10/24/2015
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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