Before becoming an aid worker, Kassig was an Army Ranger. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007, and later honorably discharged for medical reasons.

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The video shows a black-clad man with a British accent standing over a severed head.

“This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen of your country,” the man says to the camera. “Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American army doesn’t have much to say.”

Kassig is a humanitarian aid worker who converted to Islam while in captivity. He also changed his name from Peter to Abdul-Rahman. He was en route to Deir Ezzour, in Syria, while working for his aid organzation when he was first “detained.”
[…]  The new video is both longer and far more gruesome than others released by the terror organization.
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Running nearly 16 minutes, the video begins with a news-like presentation, then eventually shows the mass execution of men described as soldiers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Kassig is the fifth westerner executed by ISIS. However, unlike previous execution videos, the one released Saturday does not conclude with another threat against a specific western hostage. The terror organization has previously released videos showing the executions of British citizens Alan Henning and David Haines, as well as American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff(link)

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