OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, likely by a fellow countryman-turned-terrorist, is a horrific atrocity by Islamic State militants.
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Baird offers that assessment after attending an international conference in Paris, where diplomats around the world gathered to plot strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
Baird says that all countries attending the conference, including Canada, have likely supplied foreign fighters to ISIL.
He says more needs to be done to stop the flow of foreign fighters into the Middle East conflict, which he says poses a threat to global security.
Baird says Canada will be conducting military airlifts out of the Czech Republic to supply Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq with arms and ammunition.
As the conference opened, a pair of French reconnaissance jets flew sorties over Iraqi airspace.
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