Islamic State beheads US aid worker

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BEIRUT  The Islamic State group released a video Sunday of a masked militant standing over a severed head it claimed was Peter Kassig, a former U.S. soldier-turned-aid worker who was taken hostage while delivering relief supplies to Syrians caught in that country's brutal civil war.

Hours later, the White House confirmed Kassig's death after a review of the video, which also showed the mass beheadings of a dozen Syrian soldiers.

The 26-year-old Kassig, a former Army Ranger who returned to the Middle East to help wounded and displaced Syrians, "was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity," President Barack Obama said in a statement.

He denounced the extremist group, which he said "revels in the slaughter of innocents, including Muslims, and is bent only on sowing death and destruction."

With Kassig's death, the Islamic State group has killed five Westerners it was holding. American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were beheaded, as were British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.

Unlike previous videos of slain Western hostages, the footage released Sunday did not show the decapitation of Kassig or the moments leading up to his death.

"This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen ... who fought against the Muslims in Iraq," said the black-clad militant, who spoke with a British accent that was distorted in the video, apparently to disguise his identity. Previous videos featured a militant with a British accent that the FBI says it has identified, though it hasn't named him publicly.

The video appeared on websites used in the past by the Islamic State group, which now controls a third of Syria and Iraq.

The footage released Sunday identifies the militants' location as Dabiq, a town in northern Syria that the Islamic State group uses as the title of its English-language propaganda magazine and where they believe an apocalyptic battle between Muslims and their enemies will occur.

Full Article: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/isis-hostage-peter-kassig-beheaded-new-video-claims-article-1.2012598

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Sigh, so sad.

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"This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen ... who fought against the Muslims in Iraq,"

 

He was a convert. They killed another Muslim.

 

 

This was his family.

 

 

 

"I am an old woman and Abdul Rahman is my only child," the message reads. "My husband and I are on our own."

It follows the release of an IS video last week which showed the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning and ended with a threat to Mr Kassig.

Abdul-Rahman Kassig, known as Peter Kassig before he converted to Islam, is an American aid worker who was captured in Syria last year.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29557072

 

 

http://www.ibtimes.com/alan-henning-peter-kassig-families-both-issue-statements-following-most-recent-isis-1699454

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