UK's Cameron vows to destroy Islamic State "monsters"
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British Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday (September 14) under growing pressure to sanction air strikes after an Islamic State video showed the beheading of a British hostage.
Footage of the murder of David Haines by IS militants fighting in Iraq and Syria means Cameron, who is also trying to persuade Scotland to reject independence in a referendum on Thursday, is under pressure to get much tougher with IS.
Britain's Foreign Office said the video showed "all signs" of being genuine. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage, but the images were consistent with those of the filmed executions of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, in the past month.
"The fact that an aid worker was taken, held and brutally murdered at the hands of ISIL sums up what this organization stands for," Cameron said in a news conference.
"They are ki
British Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government's emergency response committee on Sunday (September 14) under growing pressure to sanction air strikes after an Islamic State video showed the beheading of a British hostage.
Footage of the murder of David Haines by IS militants fighting in Iraq and Syria means Cameron, who is also trying to persuade Scotland to reject independence in a referendum on Thursday, is under pressure to get much tougher with IS.
Britain's Foreign Office said the video showed "all signs" of being genuine. Reuters could not immediately verify the footage, but the images were consistent with those of the filmed executions of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, in the past month.
"The fact that an aid worker was taken, held and brutally murdered at the hands of ISIL sums up what this organization stands for," Cameron said in a news conference.
"They are ki