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ISIS are not Muslims, they are monsters, 'cameron says

By Bill Chappell

September 14,201 4 AM ET
A frame grab from a video released by the Islamic State shows an is militant holding a knife before purportedly executing briish aid worker David Cawthorne Haines. islamic state video/EPA/landov ==> frame scene, fragment; grab capture; purport claim, intent

Vowing justice for murdered aid worker David Haines, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron says his killing by extremist group the Islamic State is "an act of pure edevil. "A video purporting to show Haines 'beheading was released Saturday.

==> Vow oath; grab grabbing; beheading, cutting head

That video was released on the same weekend that Haines 'family had publicly asked his captors to contact them. instead, the Group released the video, the third to show a western hostage being killed in the past month.

==> Captor; Hostage hostage

Calling Haines a "briish Hero" who was an innocent in the fighting that has consumed much of Syria and swaths of Iraq, Cameron said, "We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice."

Cameron spoke about the killing Sunday, after meeting with his emergency response team at 10 Downing Street.

He pledged to work with Britain's allies to destroy the Islamic State, saying of the group's members, "They are not Muslims, they are monsters ."

==> Pledged commitment, vow

Haines, 44, had spent much of the last 15 years working for relief agencies. before he was kidnapped in Syria in the spring of 2013, he had worked with the u. n. and several charitable agencies in the Balkans, South Sudan, and Libya. he was also a husband the father of two daughters, ages 17 and 4.

==> Relief agency rescue agencies; charitable agency charity

"David was like so very margin of us, just another bloke," his brother, Mike, said in a statement released Saturday, in which he describes how his brother dedicated himself to humanitarian work after leaving Britain's Royal Air Force.

==> Bloke, boy, man

As was the case with American journalists James Foley and Steven sotloff, the video shows Haines wearing an orange shirt, kneeling in a desert alongside a militant who is dressed in black and is armed with a knife.

==> Kneeling kneel down

"My name is David Cawthorne Haines. I wocould like to declare that I hold you, David Cameron, entirely responsible for my execution," Haines said, according to the BBC.

==> To hold Sb responsible/liable/accountable for requires someone to be responsible

Haines then said he was being punished for Britain's sort ies.

The BBC reports, "the militant, who appears to have a briish accent, is then recorded as saying: 'This British man has to pay the price for your promise, cameron, to arm the Peshmerga against the Islamic State. '"

Source: <ISIS 'are not Muslims, they are monsters, 'cameron says: the two-way: NPR>  

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