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Islamic State beheads US aid worker Peter Kassig

(AP) -- The Islamic State group released a video Sunday of a masked militant standing over a severed head it claimed was Peter Kassig, a former U.S. Army Ranger-turned-aid worker who was taken hostage

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Nov 16, 2014, 11:09 PM

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