Beheaded aid worker's employer condemns a 'barbaric' crime The humanitarian aid group that employed David Haines, apparently beheaded by Islamic State militants, voice their outrage at the "barbaric crime". ACTED, the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development based in Paris, says it is "deeply stunned and horrified by the heinous assassination" of Haines that the group "condemned with the greatest possible force". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.