British PM David Cameron condemns killing of aid worker Alan Henning by IS group militants

(4 Oct 2014) British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday that the "completely unforgivable" slaying of a British hostage in Syria demonstrates the necessity of destroying the Islamic State extremist group. "There is no level of depravity to which they will not sink. No appeals made any difference," Cameron said after receiving a security briefing from Foreign Office, intelligence and military officials on the IS killing of English aid worker Alan Henning. Cameron said the video posted Friday night that showed the 47-year-old Henning reading an anti-Western message before his captor put a knife to his neck demonstrated that IS was repulsive and beyond reason. "The murder of Alan Henning is absolutely abhorrent, it is senseless, it is completely unforgivable. Anyone in any doubt about this organisation can now see how truly repulsive it is, and barbaric it is," Cameron said. Henning, a taxi driver from the town of Eccles in northwest England, was abducted minutes after his aid convoy entered Syria in December 2013. He was the fourth hostage killed by IS extremists. In their latest video, Henning's killers linked their action to a vote last week in British Parliament to approve use of British warplanes to attack IS targets. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...