English taxicab driver and volunteer humanitarian aid worker
This article is about the Manchester aid worker beheaded by ISIL. For the South African golfer, see Allan Henning.
Alan Henning
Born
(1967-08-15)15 August 1967
Eccles, Lancashire, England
Disappeared
December 2013 Al-Dana, Syria
Died
c. 3 October 2014(2014-10-03) (aged 47)
Cause of death
Murder by beheading
Nationality
British
Occupation(s)
Taxi driver Aid worker
Alan Henning (15 August 1967 – c. 3 October 2014) was an English taxicab driver-turned-volunteer humanitarian aid worker.[1][2] He was the fourth Western hostage killed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) whose killing was publicised in a beheading video.
Henning was captured during ISIL's occupation of the Syrian city of Al-Dana in December 2013. He was there helping provide humanitarian relief.[3] The British Foreign Office withheld news of Henning's capture while it attempted to negotiate his release.
Local colleagues warned Henning not to cross the border into Syria, but he said he wanted to make sure the supplies were delivered safely.[4][5]
When he was captured, Henning was a driver for the Worcester-based charity Al-Fatiha Global [1]. Henning was shown at the end of David Cawthorne Haines's execution video, released on 13 September 2014, and was referred to as being the next victim by Mohammed Emwazi, the media described as "Jihadi John" of the ISIL cell described as The Beatles. A video of Henning's beheading was released on 3 October 2014.[2][6] In an al-Qaeda magazine interview, spokesman Adam Gadahn condemned the beheading.[7] After his murder, British Prime Minister David Cameron ordered MI5, MI6, and GCHQ to track and kill or capture the killer.[8][9][10] Emwazi was killed in an American drone strike in 2015.[11][12]
^"Alan Henning charity campaigned for release of 'Lady al-Qaeda' Aafia Siddiqui".
^ ab"Alan Henning 'killed by Islamic State'". BBC. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
^Harper, Tom (14 September 2014). "Alan Henning: Second British hostage in an IS beheading video named as 'kind and funny' aid worker". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
^British hostage Alan Henning kidnapped half an hour after crossing Syrian border, By Bill Gardner, Ben Farmer and Gordon Rayner, The Daily Telegraph, 15 September 2014
^Charity Commission investigates aid charity over alleged Syrian fighter links, Celina Ribeiro, Civil Society Media Ltd, 4 April 2014
^"ISIS Claims To Have Killed British Hostage Alan Henning". The WorldPost. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
^"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^"British Prime Minister David Cameron orders spy chiefs to hunt down 'Jihadi John'". The Times of India. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^"British PM David Cameron orders spy chiefs to hunt down 'Jihadi John'". Economic Times. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^Patrick Sawer; Tim Ross (5 October 2014). "David Cameron pledges to defeat 'ruthless, senseless and barbaric' Isil killers". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^"'Jihadi John': high degree of certainty US airstrike killed Mohammed Emwazi, sources say". The Guardian. 13 November 2015.
^"ISIS confirms death of 'Jihadi John'". CNN. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
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