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US 'has identified' Islamic State hostage executioner
The United States believes it has identified the masked ISIL militant who murdered two kidnapped American journalists and a British aid worker in separate videotaped beheadings, according to FBI chief James Comey.
Mr Comey did not give the man’s name or nationality and declined to give further details on the suspect.
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/...tage-exectioner-fbi-chief#4Xwld07GSmB5dfPw.99
Jihadi John — who cruelly beheaded American journalist James Foley in a video released by the terror group Islamic State last week — is believed to be Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, Bari's 23-year-old son, who left the million-dollar home in Maida Vale, London, which he shared with his mother Ragaa and five sisters, to fight with the ruthless group which has run rampage through Syria and Iraq.
He was arrested again when the United States applied for his extradition on the same charges that the British had dismissed and he was then held in Long Lartin and Manchester prisons, at one time going on hunger strike to protest what he considered racist treatment by guards and orders that all phone calls had to be made in English not Arabic.
According to his indictment in the embassy bombing case, current al-Qaeda head Ayman al Zawahiri appointed him head of the London cell of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in May 1996.
The next year he leased an office in Beethoven Street, just off London's Kilburn Lane.
That office became bin Laden's 'media information office,' the indictment says.
It was also set up to ' to provide a cover for activity in support of al Qaeda’s “military” activities, including the recruitment of military trainees, the disbursement of funds and the procurement of necessary equipment (including satellite telephones) and necessary services.
'In addition, the London office served as a conduit for messages, including reports on military and security matters from various al Qaeda cells, including the Kenyan cell, to al Qaeda’s headquarters.'
Bari 'made efforts to facilitate the delivery of fake travel documents to co-conspirators who were members or associates of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Holland and Albania,' the indictment says.
Bari 'made efforts to facilitate the delivery of fake travel documents to co-conspirators who were members or associates of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Holland and Albania,' the indictment says.
He is charged with 213 counts of premeditated murder for the Nairobi bombing and 11 more for the attack in Dar es Salaam.
He is also charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and several lesser charges.
He faces life in prison if convicted.
Boston bombers didn't actually have the extreme beliefs when they came to US. They were not very religious when they came. It would appear they acquired their extreme beliefs while in the US, after being disillusioned that it wasn't all going great for them here.
"When he was taken he was driving an ambulance full of food and water to be handed out to anyone in need," she said.
"His purpose for being there was no more and no less. This was an act of sheer compassion."