UK Prime Minister David Cameron has interrupted his holiday to return
to London after a video released by the Islamic State
(IS) group purported to show a man with a British accent executing US
journalist, James Foley.
Cameron will meet with officials from the Home Office, Foreign Office, and intelligence agencies on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Iraq and Syria, and the threat posed by fighters from the IS.
The footage posted late on Tuesday, showed Foley wearing orange overalls and kneeling besides an Islamic State group fighter, who warned Western countries against further intervention in Iraq.
The unidentified man spoke in what sounded like an English accent, before apparently beheading Foley in the video, titled "A Message To America."
"If true, the brutal murder of James Foley is shocking and depraved," said a statement from Cameron's office, the Reuters news agency reported.
"Our intelligence services will be looking very carefully on both sides of the Atlantic at this video to establish its authenticity, to try to identify the individual concerned and then we will work together to try to locate him," UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told British broadcaster, Sky news, in a reference to the masked man.
"We are absolutely aware that there are significant numbers of British nationals involved in terrible crimes, probably in the commission of atrocities."
Elsewhere, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, said he condemned Foley's execution in the "strongest terms."
Read more: Robert Reich: American Democracy Is Diseased | Alternet
Cameron will meet with officials from the Home Office, Foreign Office, and intelligence agencies on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Iraq and Syria, and the threat posed by fighters from the IS.
The footage posted late on Tuesday, showed Foley wearing orange overalls and kneeling besides an Islamic State group fighter, who warned Western countries against further intervention in Iraq.
The unidentified man spoke in what sounded like an English accent, before apparently beheading Foley in the video, titled "A Message To America."
"If true, the brutal murder of James Foley is shocking and depraved," said a statement from Cameron's office, the Reuters news agency reported.
"Our intelligence services will be looking very carefully on both sides of the Atlantic at this video to establish its authenticity, to try to identify the individual concerned and then we will work together to try to locate him," UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told British broadcaster, Sky news, in a reference to the masked man.
"We are absolutely aware that there are significant numbers of British nationals involved in terrible crimes, probably in the commission of atrocities."
Elsewhere, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, said he condemned Foley's execution in the "strongest terms."
Read more: Robert Reich: American Democracy Is Diseased | Alternet
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