Sick training of a young jihadi: Disturbing images show boy setting teddy bear on fire in front of ISIS flag in mock execution

The same young child who was filmed beheading a teddy bear last week has been pictured mimicking another ISIS execution method.

The baby-faced boy smiles as he lights a piece of cord on fire, and watches the flames envelop a teddy bear which sits in front of the black flag of ISIS.

As the toy burns and smoke fills the stone-walled room, he turns to give the ISIS one-fingered salute to the camera.

The disturbing new images appeared online around 48 hours ago. They have been attributed to ISIS but the terror group has not taken responsibility for them yet.

A respected counter-terrorism expert has told MailOnline he has 'no reason to believe' the images are not authentic.
shows ISIS reaching 'a new level of barbarity', said Dr Colin Clarke, a political scientist at counter-terrorism think-tank RAND.

The video does not have the same production value or branding which features on Islamic State propaganda videos but Dr Clarke believes it is almost-certainly not a hoax.

He told MailOnline this is just another way for ISIS, which enrolls young men in vile army training camps and sends them on suicide missions, to create the next generation of extremists.

Dr Clarke said: 'These guys [ISIS] are raising kids to have the mindset of a jihadi from the very beginning.

'It's worrying because foreign fighters have their minds washed later in life, but these kids are being indoctrinated from a very, very young age.

'This is a very important "state-building project" for Islamic State who want to fill their so-called caliphate with true believers, and what better way to do it.

'It just shows that ISIS has no boundaries and nothing is unimaginable. Just when we thought it had surprised us, it sinks to such a new low.'