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Islamic State Video Shows British Hostage Being Beheaded


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Iraq, Sept 14: The Islamic State group released a video Saturday of the third beheading of a foreign hostage, a British aid worker, according to SITE Intelligence, which tracks the jihadist groups. The killing was a clear message to Britain, a key ally of the United States as it builds an international coalition to target the militant group, which has made stunning advances across Syria and northern Iraq in recent months.

The video shows the aid worker, David Cawthorne Haines, kneeling on a bare hill under the open sky, in a landscape that appears identical to where two American journalists were killed by the group in back-to-back-executions in the past month. In the moments before his death, the 44-year-old Haines is forced to read a script, in which he blames his country’s leaders for his killing.

 

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"I would like to declare that I hold you, David Cameron, entirely responsible for my execution," he said, referring to Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron. "You entered voluntarily into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic State. Unfortunately, it is we the British public that in the end will pay the price for our Parliament’s selfish decisions."

The video ends with the black-clad executioner identifying their next victim as Alan Henning, another British citizen.

The beheading of Haines puts pressure on Cameron’s government, a member of a core coalition of nations announced as NATO leaders met in Wales this month and sought to devise a strategy to address the growing threat from the Islamic State, including plans to strengthen allies on the ground in Iraq and Syria and conduct airstrikes against the militants.

President Barack Obama last week announced a major expansion of the military campaign against the Islamic State, including airstrikes against the group in Syria.

he beheadings of the two Americans, James Foley on Aug. 19 and Steven J. Sotloff on Sept. 2, followed the start of a campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Iraq.

The group is holding Henning and another British citizen, as well as two other American aid workers. Their families have asked the news media not to disclose their names, after the Islamic State warned that the hostages would die if relatives made their identities public.

The British government said it was trying to verify the video. Cameron later denounced the killing on Twitter: "The murder of David Haines is an act of pure evil. My heart goes out to his family who have shown extraordinary courage and fortitude.

"We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes."

Britain and the United States are among the only nations in the world that have held to a hard-line, no-concessions policy when dealing with kidnappings by terrorist groups.


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