{"id":65628,"date":"2014-11-17T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=65628"},"modified":"2014-11-17T07:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:04:41","slug":"hostage-killing-pure-evil-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=65628","title":{"rendered":"IS hostage killing pure evil – Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Barack Obama has condemned the killing of US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig as “an act of pure evil”.<\/p>\n

The Islamic State (IS) militant group released a video showing a masked man standing over a severed head, which the White House confirmed was Mr Kassig.<\/p>\n

His parents said he died “as a result of his love for the Syrian people”.<\/p>\n

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[contextly_sidebar id=”sa0ZqMdKvkRHUoUgSlwqdU3IBl68HSI2″]Mr Kassig, 26, was taken while working for a refugee group. He is the fifth Western hostage to be killed by IS, which controls parts of Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

The president praised Mr Kassig as a humanitarian and said he was “taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity”.<\/p>\n

“Today we grieve together, yet we also recall that the indomitable spirit of goodness and perseverance that burned so brightly in Abdul-Rahman Kassig,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama’s comments came as he flew back to the US from the G20 summit in Australia.<\/p>\n

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Ed and Paula Kassig had made clear they did not want their son’s death to be manipulated by the militants<\/div>\n

Mr Kassig’s parents, Ed and Paula, from Indiana, said in a statement they were heartbroken by his death.<\/p>\n

“We are incredibly proud of our son for living his life according to his humanitarian calling,” they said.<\/p>\n

“We will work every day to keep his legacy alive as best we can.”<\/p>\n

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Abdul-Rahman Kassig<\/span><\/p>\n

A photograph of Abdul-Rahman with his father, Ed, fishing on the Ohio River in Indiana in 2011<\/div>\n
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  • Former US Army Ranger who served in Iraq in 2007<\/li>\n
  • Trained as an emergency medical technician and founded an organisation to supply refugee camps in Syria<\/li>\n
  • Snatched in October 2013 while travelling in eastern Syria for a project<\/li>\n
  • Changed his name from Peter Kassig when he converted to Islam in late 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    ‘British’ jihadist<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    The other Western hostages killed by IS were Britons Alan Henning and David Haines, and US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.<\/p>\n

    Those killings were carried out by a man believed to be British. That man bears a resemblance to one of the masked militants pictured in the video showing Mr Kassig.<\/p>\n

    Unlike previous videos released by IS, the latest one shows the faces of many of the jihadis and specifies its location – Dabiq in Syria’s Aleppo province.<\/p>\n

    It also shows the beheading of 18 Syrian captives, who are identified as army officers and pilots.<\/p>\n

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    Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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