Foley killing an 'utter betrayal': British foreign secretary
London (AFP) - Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday that the killing of US journalist James Foley by a man speaking with an English accent was an "utter betrayal of our country".
There is growing concern in London that British passport holders who travel to fight in Iraq and Syria could return to commit attacks on British soil.
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group posted a video on Tuesday in which a masked militant with a London accent is seen executing Foley, who had been missing since his capture in Syria in 2012.
The Sunday Times newspaper, citing unnamed senior government sources, reported that intelligence services MI5 and MI6 have identified the fighter suspected of killing Foley but the sources did not divulge the suspect's name.
"It is horrifying to think that the perpetrator of this heinous act could have been brought up in Britain," Hammond wrote in an article for the paper. ...