And Again: ISIS Beheads British Hostage Alan Henning

From Bryan Preston at the PJ Tatler:

The Islamic State had threatened to behead British captive Alan Hennings. They have carried out that threat, with U.S.-led airstrikes supposedly hitting them in Iraq and Syria.

Islamic State militants have published a video that is said to depict the murder of a British aid convoy volunteer Alan Henning three weeks after warning that he would be the next to die.

If the video is found to be authentic, Henning will be the fourth western hostage to have been killed by the group, following the video-taped beheadings of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and Scottish aid worker David Haines.

The latest crime comes after the UK launched air strikes against Isis, joining the US and its Arab allies – Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE – which had been targeting the group for several days.

He leaves behind a wife and two teenage children.

Bryan grimly adds that “The Islamic State is now threatening to behead another American hostage.”

Update: “At least they make the heads roll on time:” The Small Dead Animals blog spots a Toronto Star columnist making “The case for doing nothing about the Islamic State:”

So imagine being a villager. From high overhead, others are raining Hellfires, literally, on you. You can’t see them but you know they don’t look like you or speak your language, and care only in the most abstract way. Then along come the Islamic State thugs. They look and talk like you. They’re brutal but they create some administrative order…

George Orwell, call your office.