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Aid worker beheaded by Islamic State

Yahoo7 and Agencies
November 17, 2014, 7:51 am

President Barack Obama has confirmed the death of US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, calling his beheading at the hands of the Islamic State group "pure evil."

"Abdul-Rahman was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity," Obama said in a statement released aboard Air Force One as he flew back to the United States from an Asia tour.

Photo: Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. Photo: AP/Kassig Family


A new graphic video by the militant Islamic State group claimed the US aid worker has been beheaded.

In the nearly 16-minute video uploaded to social networks on Sunday, a black-clad militant with his face concealed stands before a severed head that he claims is that of the US aid worker.

Kassig, 26, was captured last year while helping provide medical aid to Syrians. His friends say he converted to Islam in captivity and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman.

The video also showed what appeared to be the mass beheading of several captured Syrian soldiers.

Kassig's parents, Ed and Paula Kassig, issued a statement saying: "We prefer our son is ... remembered for his important work and the love he shared with friends and family, not in the manner the hostage-takers would use to manipulate Americans and further their cause."

The man in the video spoke with the same southern British accent as the killer of previous hostages, dubbed "Jihadi John" by British media. He was believed to have been wounded in an air attack on an IS leaders' meeting in Iraq near the Syrian border earlier this month, some media reports have said.

"To Obama, the dog of Rome, today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and tomorrow we will be slaughtering your soldiers," a masked militant says, predicting Washington would send more troops to the region to fight Islamic State.

"And with Allah's permission ... the Islamic State will soon ... begin to slaughter your people in your streets."

The format of the video was different from previous such announcements, showing other beheadings in graphic detail, and also showing most of the killers unmasked. The purported location also was disclosed as the northern Syrian town of Dabeq.

An Islamic State supporter in Syria contacted by Reuters said: "The message is very clear. This is what the West understands. They think they can scare us with their planes and their bombs. No, not us. We are out to impose the religion of God and, by his will, we will."

Kassig, 26, from Indiana, is also known as Abdul-Rahman, a name he took after converting to Islam in captivity. His parents have said through a spokesperson their son was taken captive on his way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Oct. 1, 2013.

Kassig was doing humanitarian work through Special Emergency Response and Assistance, an organisation he founded in 2012 to help Syrian refugees, the family has said.

Islamic State has previously killed US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.

The masked militant, who appeared to be the leader of a beheading squad, said Kassig was buried in Dabeq, near the Turkish border.

"Here we are burying the first American crusader in Dabeq. Eagerly waiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive," he says.

Western leaders and officials condemned the killing.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was horrified by the "cold-blooded murder."

The beheadings of the Syrian personnel were filmed in death squad style, with militants standing behind a kneeling man in a dark blue overall. In slow motion shots, each of the militants is shown drawing a knife from a box on the side of the road.

Morning news break - November 17

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