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| Alan Henning murder: Aid worker's brother calls for 'troops on ground' | Alan Henning murder: Aid worker's brother calls for 'troops on ground' |
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| Murdered aid worker Alan Henning's brother has called on David Cameron to put British troops on the ground in Syria and Iraq to catch the Islamic State "monsters" who killed him. | Murdered aid worker Alan Henning's brother has called on David Cameron to put British troops on the ground in Syria and Iraq to catch the Islamic State "monsters" who killed him. |
| Reg Henning said those responsible for killing the taxi driver, from Eccles in Greater Manchester, were "barbarians". | |
| He also said the family had been ordered to keep silent about his brother being held captive. | |
| Mr Henning, 47, was delivering aid when he was kidnapped in Syria last year. | Mr Henning, 47, was delivering aid when he was kidnapped in Syria last year. |
| 'Living nightmare' | |
| His brother told BBC News."You're not going to find them by dropping a few bombs in Iraq. | |
| "We need send ground forces in to find out where these monsters are - the sooner we do it the sooner the killing stops." | |
| Mr Henning said the family had been "gagged by the government and the Foreign Office" over the kidnapping. | |
| "It's been a living nightmare, keeping it quiet for nine months," he said. |