Obama Confirms Kassig Beheaded By Islamic State

The president offers condolences to the family of a U.S. aid worker beheaded by Islamic State and condemns the "act of pure evil" by the terrorists.
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President Barack Obama has confirmed the execution of U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig by Islamic State terrorists.

Kassig, who had converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, "was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhumanity," Obama said in a statement.