Britain joined the United States on the frontline against the Islamic State, after a British hostage’s life was threatened in a gruesome video. “A country like ours will not be cowed,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said, adding: “We will not waver in our aim of defeating terrorism.” In a video showing the severed head of 31-year-old Steven Sotloff, a masked militant warned that a British man, widely identified as David Cawthorne Haines, would be killed in response to US air strikes against militants in northern Iraq. The jihadists earlier beheaded a second American reporter, prompting US President Barack Obama to vow that the US would not be intimidated by the latest incident.
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