IS threat to Europe will get worse, says UK's Cameron

UK Prime Minister David Cameron says it will take time and international cooperation to defeat the group

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that the threat of the Islamic State in Europe will get worse as the militant group continues to plan terror attacks against European countries.
After a high level emergency security meeting, Cameron suggested that “calmness and deliberateness" is the most effective way to defeat IS militants and their ideology.
Cameron chaired a meeting of the UK emergency committee Cobra hours after the extremist group released a video purporting to show the beheading of David Haines, a British aid worker taken hostage more than year and half ago in Syria.
The video drew widespread condemnation, with Cameron calling IS the "embodiment of evil" and vowing to do whatever it takes to defeat them.
IS has already published videos of two other decapitations – American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff – in supposed retribution for US airstrikes.
Speaking after the meeting, Cameron said IS militants "have planned – and continue to plan – attacks across Europe and in our country."
"The problem will merely get worse, as it has done over recent months, not just for us, but for Europe and for the world," he warned.
Two weeks ago, the UK's terror threat level was raised from "substantial" to "severe" in response to "conflicts in Iraq and Syria".
The UK government has warned its young Muslim citizens against travelling to Iraq or Syria to fight alongside extremist groups like IS.
Cameron has also warned the British public that defeating IS will take time.
“Step by step, we must drive back, dismantle and ultimately destroy IS and what it stands for," he said.
Cameron added: “We will do so in a calm, deliberate way – but with an iron determination."
It its video released Saturday night, IS threatened to behead another British hostage in retaliation for the British government's promise to arm Iraqi Kurdish troops, known as Peshmerga, to fight the violent group.
The hostage has been named as aid worker Alan Henning, 47.
Cameron described the organisation as "a massive threat to the entire Middle East" and warned that no individual country will be able to defeat it.
“We will not do so on our own but by working closely with our allies, not just the United States and in Europe, but also in the region," he said.
The UK has announced its support of US airstrikes against IS, also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
“British Tornadoes and surveillance aircraft have been helping with intelligence gathering and logistics," Cameron said, reiterating his country's pledge not to ignore the threat of IS to its security and UK allies.
IS has recently seized large parts of northern and western Iraq and Syria.
Western intelligence agencies have estimated that the group could have as many as 30,000 fighters.
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