British PM Cameron: We will destroy 'monster' ISIS with 'iron determination'

Britain vows to 'confront' the ISIS 'menace' after killing of David Haines. (CNN) -- The killing of British aid worker David Haines "will not lead Britain to shirk our responsibility" to work with allies to take on ISIS, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday. Instead, he said, "it must strengthen our resolve." Speaking a day after the Islamic terror group posted a video showing Haines' beheading -- the latest in a string of such videos -- Cameron vowed to work with the United States to support its "direct military action." He also emphasized that "this is not about British troops on the ground." "We have to confront this menace," Cameron said. "Step by step we must drive back, dismantle, and ultimately destroy ISIL and what it stands for." Together with allies, he said, "we will do so in a calm, deliberate way but with an iron determination." The group, which calls itself the Islamic State, is also known as ISIS and ISIL. "This organization poses a massive threat to the entire Middle East," Cameron said, making a public statement before an emergency meeting of security and intelligence officials. He listed five points in the British strategy: to work with the Iraqi government and Kurdish regional governments and help them protect minorities being slaughtered by ISIS; to work at the United Nations "to mobilize the broadest possible support" against ISIS; to contribute to U.S.-led military action; to assist in humanitarian efforts; and to "reinforce our formidable counterterrorist effort here at home." Some British Muslims have joined ISIS, and the militant who killed Haines and two Americans -- James Foley and Steven Sotloff -- may be British. 'Not Muslim, but monsters' The video of Haines' killing looks very similar to those that showed the beheadings of Foley and Sotloff, and the masked militant sounds like the same man. "It falls to the government and to each and every one of us to drain this poison from our society and to take on this warped ideology that is radicalizing some of our young people," Cameron said. "Islam is a religion of peace," Cameron insisted, saying of the ISIS militants, "They are not Muslim, they are monsters." Britons "need to know that this is a fanatical organization" that plans attacks across Europe and in the UK, Cameron said. "It was an ISIL fanatic who gunned down four people in a museum in Brussels," he said referring to Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman from Roubaix in northern France, accused of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in May. Nemmouche recently spent a year in Syria and is a radicalized Islamist, the chief prosecutor of Paris said in June. French journalist Nicolas Henin said last month that Nemmouche tortured prisoners he guarded while fighting for ISIS in Syria. "He did beat me a number of times. I don't know of any bad treatment to any other foreign hostages coming from him specifically but I witnessed him torturing local prisoners." 'Your evil alliance with America' The video of Haines' death shows a masked ISIS militant placing his hand on another captive, whom he identified as Alan Henning, a British citizen. The Islamist group, which controls large areas of northern Syria and Iraq, previously publicized grisly videos of the beheadings of American journalists Foley and Sotloff. It has also brutally slaughtered large numbers of Syrians and Iraqis in the territory it's seized. In the two previous videos, the killer directed his comments at the United States, which had begun airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq. But the latest one singles out Britain. "Your evil alliance with America, which continues to strike the Muslims of Iraq and most recently bombed the Haditha Dam, will only accelerate your destruction and claim the role of the obedient lap dog," says the militant.




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