David Haines.
ISIS has beheaded British 44-year-old aid worker David Cawthorne Haines, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which first reported the deaths of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. In what has become a depressingly familiar routine, ISIS has posted gruesome footage of the murder to social media. The video, which appears to again feature the terrorist known as ' Jihadi John,' also includes a threat to kill another British hostage, Alan Henning, as well as messages to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
Similar to the previous videos of beheading American journalists James Wright Foley and Steven Joel Sotloff, the latest shows the victims decrying his government's actions against the Islamic State and holding its leadership responsible for his death. Haines said to UK Prime Minister David Cameron: 'You entered voluntarily into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic State, just as your predecessor Tony Blair did, following a trend amongst our British prime ministers who can't find the courage to say no to the Americans'.
The executioner, who sounds to be the same man who appeared in the videos with Foley and Sotloff, told Cameron and the British government that their alliance with the U.S. will only 'accelerate your destruction' and will drag the British people into 'another bloody and unwinnable war.'
Haines was kidnapped in Syria in March 2013. He had reportedly been working for a Paris-based NGO called Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development. Before going to Syria, he had helped refugees in Libya, South Sudan, and the Balkans, according to ACTED. The
Guardian reports that he was married and the father of two girls, a teenager and a 4-year-old. His identity was kept secret until he appeared in the video of Sotloff's almost identical execution.
On Friday, Haines's family released a statement intended for ISIS: 'We are the family of David Haines. We have sent messages to you to which we have not received a reply. We are asking those holding David to make contact with us.'
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