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IS Video Purports to Show UK Hostage Beheading

The Islamic State terrorist group says it has executed British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines. The group released a two and a half minute video purportedly showing Haines being beheaded. Haines, a 44-year-old father of two, was kidnapped last year just three days after he arrived in Syria to work for an international relief agency. The execution video, entitled "A Message to America’s Allies," emerged shortly after Haines' family issued a public plea for his captors to...

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