UK Prime Minister David Cameron is set to meet with security advisors to discuss how to respond to the beheading of a British aid worker. David Haines had been seized by Islamist militants in Syria last year, reports GHN based on DW.
The prime minister has summoned members of the British government's emergency response committee, known as Cobra, to meet this Sunday to discuss their options, just hours after a video was posted on the Internet, appearing to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.
Early on Sunday, Prime Minister Cameron confirmed the death of the 44-year-old describing the killing as "a despicable and appalling murder of an innocent aid worker," as well as "an act of pure evil."
"We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes," Cameron pledged.
He also expressed his condolences to the victim's loved ones, saying that "my heart goes out to the family of David Haines who have shown extraordinary courage and fortitude throughout this ordeal."
In the footage, posted on the Internet late on Saturday, a hooded man with a British accent and wielding a knife addressed Cameron directly, saying that a British citizen was paying the price for the country's decision to supply weapons to Kurdish peshmerga forces who are fighting "Islamic State" (IS) extremists in northern Iraq.