British Aid Worker David Haines Beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS)

After beheading hostages James Wright Foley and Steven Sotloff in recent weeks, the Islamic State (ISIS) has now released footage of the beheading of British aid worker David Haines. Haines was captured in Syria, where he was delivering humanitarian aid to a refugee camp.

As with all such beheadings in the name of Allah, we can expect press conferences from President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron defending Islam against any possible criticisms.

David Haines with ISIS executioner

(CNN) — British aid worker David Haines appears to have been executed by ISIS militants, according to a video posted Saturday to a website associated with the group, making him the third Western captive to be killed by the Islamist extremist group in recent weeks.

The ISIS video post showing Haines’ apparent beheading called his execution “a message to the allies of America.”

It is produced very similarly to the videos that showed the executions of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, the last of which included Haines and the threat that he’d be killed next.

The new video pictures a masked ISIS militant placing his hand on another captive, whom he identified as Alan Henning, a British citizen.

News of the gruesome killing came the same day that Haines’ family released a brief message to his captors through the British Foreign Office.

In it, the family says, “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.”

A logistics and security manager for the Paris-based Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, a nongovernmental humanitarian agency, the 44-year-old Haines was abducted in March 2013 near a refugee camp in Atmeh, Syria.

At that time, Haines was working to arrange for the delivery of humanitarian aid to people staying at the camp. He had previously worked on aid operations for victims of conflict in the Balkans, African and other parts of the Middle East, according to an ACTED spokesman.

Haines’ face became known to the world in the ISIS video, released September 2, in which he looks forward and kneels as a masked ISIS militant stands behind him.

The militant says in that video, “We take this opportunity to warn those governments who’ve entered this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State to back off and leave our people alone.” (Continue Reading.)

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