Obama Condemns Killing Of Reporter, U.S. Hits Militants In Iraq -- Reuters
* Obama: killing "shocked the conscience" of the world
* Says U.S. will do what it must to protect citizens
* Islamic State threatens the life of a second U.S. reporter
* Killing said to be revenge for U.S. air strikes in Iraq
BAGHDAD/EDGARTOWN, Mass., Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama expressed revulsion on Wednesday at the beheading of an American journalist by Islamist militants and vowed the United States would do what it must to protect its citizens as international condemnation of the insurgents grew.
Not long after Obama called Islamic State a "cancer" with a bankrupt ideology, the Pentagon said U.S. aircraft conducted 14 air strikes in the vicinity of Iraq's Mosul Dam, destroying or damaging militants' Humvees, trucks and explosives.
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