WORLD_ Obama confirms death of Peter Kassig, US aid worker held hostage by Isis

The Guardian

Obama confirms death of Peter Kassig, US aid worker held hostage by Isis

* President offers ‘prayers and condolences’ to parents and family
* Death of Kassig ‘an act of pure evil’

* Peter Kassig: ‘a believer in hopeless causes’
* Analysis: latest Isis horror masks a week of defeats

Martin Pengelly in New York
theguardian.com, Monday 17 November 2014 07.28 AEST
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Peter Kassig in front of a truck on the Syrian border, between late 2012 and autumn 2013. Photograph: Handout/AFP/Getty Images

President Barack Obama on Sunday confirmed the death of Peter Kassig, the American aid worker who was held hostage by Islamic State (Isis) militants in Syria.

A video was released earlier in the day, seeming to show Kassig’s head at the feet of an Isis militant. Administration officials spent Sunday examining the video.

In a statement that referred to the name Kassig adopted after converting to Islam while in captivity, Obama said: “We offer our prayers and condolences to the parents and family of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known to us as Peter. We cannot begin to imagine their anguish at this painful time.”

Obama, who was speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on his return from the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, praised Kassig as a humanitarian killed “in an act of pure evil” by Isis.

The video was released by al-Furqan Media, which is controlled by Isis. It showed a man who looked and sounded like a British-accented fighter seen in other such videos, standing over what appeared to be Kassig’s severed head.

The video also contained footage of what appeared to be the beheading of several captured Syrian soldiers.

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