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| Iraq |
| Islamic State beheads British hostage Henning in new video |
| 2014-10-04 |
| [REUTERS] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... The footage on YouTube, which was linked to on pro-Islamic State Twitter feeds, showed a man in an orange jumpsuit kneeling in a landscape who was identified as Henning. "Because of our parliament's decision to attack the Islamic State, I, as a member of the British public, will now pay the price for that decision," the kneeling man says. Another man dressed in black and wearing a balaclava stands next to him. A male voice then says, "The blood of David Haines was on your hands Cameron,” in a reference to Britannia’s prime minister. “Alan Henning will also be slaughtered, but his blood is on the hands of the British parliament." The video shows the man in black making sawing motions at the kneeling man's neck. The video cuts to show a body in an orange jumpsuit lying on its front and a severed head balanced on the back of the corpse. The black-clad man then introduces another hostage who he identifies as American Peter Edward Kassig. U.S. officials confirmed that an American of that name was being held by the |
| Posted by:Fred |