David Cameron today vowed to “hunt down” the “monsters” who beheaded British aid worker David Haines.
In a defiant statement of intent, the Prime Minister said Britain was prepared to take “whatever steps necessary” to destroy “evil” Islamic State militants who murdered the 44-year-old.
Speaking in Downing Street after a video claiming to show the killing was released by IS, Mr Cameron hailed Mr Haines as a “British hero” and warned of the domestic and international threat posed by his extremist murderers.
Mr Cameron’s intervention comes as IS threatened to murder a second British hostage, later named as Alan Henning.
He said the father-of-two was “murdered in the most callous and brutal way imaginable by an organisation which is the embodiment of evil”.
Mr Haines was kidnapped three days after arriving in Syria last year, and was threatened with death after the murder of US journalist Steven
“David Haines was a British hero,” Mr Cameron said. “The fact that an aid worker was taken, held and brutally murdered at the hands of ISIL sums up what this organisation stands for.
“We will hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice no matter how long it takes.
“They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people – Christians, Muslims, minorities across Iraq and Syria. They boast of their brutality.
“They claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.”
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