ISL behesds Syria troops and US aid worker. -Aljazera.

A video has been circulated online purporting
to show members of the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant (ISIL) group beheading several
Syrian soldiers and a US aid worker.
The footage, released on Sunday, showed the
beheading of at least 12 people whom ISIL
said were pilots and officers in Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad’s military.
The clip was circulated through credible
social media accounts that have previously
shared similar videos that were later verfied,
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, reporting from
Baghdad, said.
But it is not yet possible to verify the
authenticity of the footage, Khan said.
“To Obama, the dog of Rome, today we are
slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and
tomorrow we are slaughtering your soldiers.
And with god’s permission we will break this
final and last crusade,” a masked man said
before he was shown beheading one of the
men.
The video also showed a bloodied head on
the ground, whom ISIL said was that of US
aid worker Peter Kassing.
“This is Peter Edward Kassig, a US citizen of
your country. Peter, who fought against
Muslims in Iraq, was serving as a soldier in
the American army, does not have much to
say,” a masked person standing near the
head said.
“His previous cellmates have already spoken
on his behalf.”
Khan said: “Peter had converted to Islam. He
is a Muslim who died in the hands of
Muslims. So it is a pretty controversial
statement coming from ISIL.”
Kassig, a 26-year-old from the US state of
Indiana, converted to Islam and changed his
name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
The White House said the US intelligence
community was working to determine the
authenticity of the video.
If the video is authentic, the White House
would be “appalled by the brutal murder of
an innocent American,” National Security
Council spokeswoman, Bernadette Meehan,
said.
Kimberly Halkett, reporting from Washington,
said: “Peter’s family has released a
statement, saying that they are in contact with
the US government to understand if the video
is authentic or not. They asked the
international news media not to broadcast or
publish any material provided by the hostage
takers.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he
was “horrified” over the video.
“I’m horrified by the cold-blooded murder of
Abdul-Rahman Kassig,” Cameron wrote on
Twitter on Sunday.
“ISIL have again shown their depravity. My
thoughts are with his family.”
Two US journalists and two British aid
workers had already been beheaded by ISIL
in what the group says are retaliatory killings
for the US-led air campaign against its
fighters in Iraq and Syria.
Later on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, said, in Syria’s al-Raqqa city,
ISIL executed al least 13 men, who were
arrested earlier this month after they were
charged of collaborating with the Syrian
regime.
The London-based rights group said,
according to local sources, the Syrian
nationals were arrested about a month ago,
adding that ISIL found individual weapons
and wireless devices in their possession.
ISIL has executed numerous Iraqis and
Syrians. In October, the group publicly
executed Iraqi news cameraman Raad al-
Azzawi and three civilians in northern Iraq,
according to the journalist’s relatives.