President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron declared on Thursday that their nations would 'not be cowed' by extremists from the Islamic State group who have claimed responsibility for beheading two American journalists. 'If terrorists think we will weaken in the face of their threats they could not be more wrong,' Obama and Cameron wrote in a joint op-ed in the Times of London on the eve of a NATO summit in Wales. Cameron and Obama called the murders 'utterly despicable' and said they are the 'latest evidence of a brutal and poisonous extremism that murders indiscriminately and risks exporting terrorism abroad.'
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'If terrorists think we will weaken in the face of their threats they could not be more wrong,' Obama and Cameron wrote in a joint op-ed
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The world leaders are in Wales for a two-day NATO summit
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The op-ed follows a claim by Obama that the U.S. could make ISIS a more 'manageable problem' if it were flanked by an international coalition
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Members of Congress on both sides of political divide are pressuring Obama to act
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They plan to propose legislation next week that would give the president the authority to continue airstrikes on ISIS
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