Cameron rules out ransom for British hostage held by IS
September 03, 2014  21:19
UK Prime Minister David Cameron today ruled out paying ransom to secure the release of a British hostage being held by Islamic State militants. Speaking in the House of Commons, Cameron stressed that the UK will not "waver" in its aim to defeat terrorism and that every possible option will be considered to protect the British man even as he condemned the "barbaric" beheading of a second US hostage.

"There is no doubt in my mind that the many tens of millions of dollars that ISIL (IS) have raised from ransom payments is going into promoting terrorism including terrorism affecting our own country," he said.

IS terrorists threatened to kill a British hostage in a video of US journalist Steven Sotloff's death unless US air strikes in Iraq are stopped. The British hostage has family in Scotland but relatives do not want him named.
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