Isis have released a video purporting to
show the execution of British aid worker
David Haines.
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "This
is a despicable and appalling murder of
an innocent aid worker. It is an act of
pure evil.
"My heart goes out to the family of David
Haines who have shown extraordinary
courage and fortitude throughout this
ordeal. We will do everything in our
power to hunt down these murderers and
ensure they face justice, however long it
takes."
Mike Haines, the brother of David Haines,
said in a statement in the early hours of
Sunday that his brother had been
murdered in cold blood. He added:
“David was like so very many of us, just
another bloke. Born in 1970 to parents
who loved us both, our childhood was
centred around our family. Holidays in
caravans and tents, days away as a family
which we remember fondly. David and I
were brought up to know right from
wrong, although we might not with the
innocence of youth have always chosen
right. David was a good brother, there
when I needed him and absent when I
didn’t. I hope that he felt the same way
about me. He was, in the right mood, the
life and soul of the party and on other
times the most stubborn irritating pain in
the ass. He would probably say the same
about me.
“After leaving school he worked with the
Royal Mail before joining the RAF as an
aircraft engineer. He married his
childhood sweetheart Louise and in the
due process of time had a wee lass
Bethany. He was - and no doubt wherever
he is - exceptionally proud of Bethany.
“David served with the UN in the Balkans,
helping people in real need. There are
many accolades from people in that
region that David helped. He helped
whoever needed help, regardless of race,
creed or religion. During this time David
began to decide that humanitarian work
was the field he wanted to work in.
“David left the RAF and was employed by
Scotrail. As with every job, David entered
into it with enthusiasm. David met and
married his second wife Dragana and they
have a four year old daughter Athea.
“David was most alive and enthusiastic in
his humanitarian roles. His joy and
anticipation for the work he went to do in
Syria is for myself and family the most
important element of this whole sad
affair.
“He was and is loved by all his family and
will be missed terribly.”
Prior to the Prime Minister's statement,
Foreign Office staff issued a statement
that they were urgently trying to verify
the authenticity of the film.
Mr Cameron came back to Downing Street
last night and said he would be attending
an emergency COBRA meeting on Sunday
morning.
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Mr Haines, a father of two, was abducted
while working for a non-governmental
organisation in Syria in March 2013.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "I am
sickened at the disgusting, barbaric killing
of David Haines.
"He was somebody whose only purpose
was to help innocent people, themselves
victims of conflict."
Mr Miliband continued: "My deepest
condolences and thoughts are with his
family as they cope with this terrible
crime. And the hearts of the British
people will go out to them."
The film was titled “Message To The Allies
of America” and appeared to show Mr
Haines, who Isis threatened to kill in a
previous video, kneeling in the desert.
Speaking to the camera, the hostage
identified by Isis as Mr Haines, 44, says: “I
would like to declare that I hold you
David Cameron entirely responsible for
my execution.”
He later adds: “Unfortunately it is we, the
British public, who will pay the price for
our parliament’s selfish decisions.”
Just as in the earlier videos released by
Isis which showed the beheadings of
American journalists James Foley and
Steven Sotloff in recent weeks, a man clad
all in black speaks in the film before Mr
Haines is apparently beheaded.
The man blames the United Kingdom for
its involvement with the United States in
the fightback against Isis in Iraq and
Syria.
He says in the film: “If you, Cameron,
persist in fighting the Islamic State, then
you like your master Obama will have the
blood of your people on your hands.”
Isis have captured large swathes of Iraq
and Syria and have urged Muslims from
around the world to join them.
A father of two daughters, he was living
in Croatia before his kidnapping. He had
previously worked in some of the world’s
most dangerous regions, in his role as an
aid worker, including Libya and South
Sudan.
The video was released after a day in
which Mr Haines’s family had made an
attempt to contact his captors – although
a statement released by the Foreign
Office said that their requests for talks
had been ignored. Foreign Secretary
Philip Hammond had said the government
was doing “everything” it could to protect
him.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/david-haines-british-hostage-david-haines-murdered-in-isis-beheading-9731691.html

Rest in peace

RIP ...I wonder why they just won't let the crase people alone. Why bother about giving aid when they are killing you guys.

To me I believe ...ethics or no ethics those fools out there are the architect of their own misfortune ...sorry to say.

ISIS are the product of the same people they're fighting or rendering homeless as well as being beheaded.

Rest in peace