ISIS Reportedly Beheads British Aid Worker

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a press conference at the end of the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has reportedly beheaded another Western hostage, British aid worker David Haines.

The SITE Intelligence Group said that ISIS had released a video purportedly depicting Haines’s killing.

The militant group had threatened to kill Haines after it killed U.S. journalist Steven Joel Sotloff earlier this month. ISIS also beheaded U.S. journalist James Foley in August.

Haines was abducted in early 2013, according to NBC News.

According to SITE, the video’s message was directed at British Prime Minister David Cameron (pictured). ISIS threatened another captive British citizen, Alan Henning, at its conclusion.

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  1. Alright. Enough with this shit. Blow this scum off the face of the earth.

  2. Avatar for clk clk says:

    Now ISIS is trying to control who goes to war against them. ISIS is indeed very dangerous, so are many of the regimes in Africa, Evangelicals advocating murdering homosexuals in Africa, conservatives taking advice from Cheney and McCain and that ass the thinks we should bomb for a few weeks and see what happens.

    ISIS has been beheading women and children in Iraq since they started this cycle of crazy religious fervor. The only difference is that they WANT the US to become involved and the rest of the world and they have learned to use technology and psychology to fire up fear and loathing among American citizens.

    I am extremely sorry for the families because no one should have to experience that, but I am also extremely sorry for the Sandy Hook victims and the family of those 5 children killed by their father this week. However we didn’t go to war over guns, in fact the same men who are advocating sending our children to war AGAIN were the first to cower in the face of the NRA.

    When did the American people become invisible and mute?

  3. Time is short for these criminal cowards. We don’t need to let them make us hysterical. This is nothing but a gang. Time for the Arab world to clean up its own shit.

  4. Going to war – as in boots on the ground – is not necessary in this case. But surgical drone bombing is. In the cases you cite – Sandy Hook and a murderously demented father – is there even a remote possibility of the killers doing the same thing tomorrow or next week? Obviously not, as Adam Lanza is dead and Timothy Ray Jones is being held for trial. If such a possibility existed – as it clearly does with ISIS – there would likely be an enormous law enforcement effort to stop them. Extrapolating their murders into gun safety legislation is, unfortunately, too abstract for most Americans. Not a good analogy at all.

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