Islamic State Savages WILL be tried in US over beheading of British and American captives in Syria after Supreme Court overturned ‘ridiculous’ ruling that stopped UK sharing vital evidence with America

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I will not adopt the warm and fuzzy moniker the media has chosen for these savages — “the Beatles.” Disgusting.

First:

The Western hostages captured, tortured and killed by the beheading gang

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American journalist who kept up fellow prisoners’ morale

James Foley, from Illinois, USA, was a journalist who first went missing in November 2012

James Foley, from Illinois, USA, was a journalist who first went missing in November 2012

James Foley, from Illinois, in the US, was a journalist who first went missing in November 2012.
On his way to an internet cafe,  while reporting for the GlobalPost, he had been taken hostage at gunpoint by militants from the group Jabhat al Nusra in Taftanaz, northern Syria.
Jabhat al Nusra subsequently joined forces with ISIS – which did not exist in anything like its current form when Mr Foley was taken.
Mr Foley joined other prisoners, who were European and British, in the ISIS prison and despite attempts to rescue him, he was eventually murdered by his captors.
His fellow prisoners spoke kindly of Foley, who called people ‘Bro’ and never argued over shortages of food, despite meagre rations equating to cup of food-a-day, often sharing his portion and his blanket.
Mr Foley often made efforts to maintain prisoners’ morale, persuading them to play games and to give talks on their favourite subjects.
He even organised a ‘Secret Santa’ during Christmas 2013, encouraging hostages to make gifts out of whatever they could find.
ISIS posted his execution video, titled ‘A Message to America’ to social media as proof of his death.
In scripted remarks before his killing, kneeling in an orange jump suit, he said: ‘I wish I could have the hope of freedom and seeing my family once again.
‘But that ship has sailed. I guess all in all I wish I wasn’t American.’

‘The guy lit up a room’: US freelance journalist who was an avid rugby player

Steven Sotloff, 31, from Miami, who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished in Syria in 2013
Steven Sotloff, 31, from Miami, who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished in Syria in 2013
US journalist Steven Sotloff, 31, vanished in Syria in August 2013.
Mr Sotloff was not seen again until he appeared in a video released online by ISIS on August 2014, that showed James Foley’s beheading.
In a second clip, published weeks later, entitled ‘A Second Message to America,’ Mr Sotloff appeared in a orange jumpsuit before he is beheaded by an Islamic State fighter.
The grandson of Holocaust survivors, Mr Sotloff grew up Miami, before attending the Kimball Union Academy boarding school in New Hampshire before studying at the University of Central Florida.
While at Kimball, Mr Sotloff was an avid rugby player and on moving to UFC began working for the student newspaper there, the Central Florida Future.
He left this paper in 2005 and began to pursue his dreams of journalism full time.
‘The guy lit up a room. He was always such a loyal, caring and good friend to us,’ former roommate Josh Polsky told the New York Times.
‘If you needed to rely on anybody for anything he would drop everything on a dime for you or for anyone else.’
Sotloff travelled to the Middle East as a freelance journalist and wrote reports from Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Turkey and Syria.
He often had pieces in Time and Foreign Policy magazines.
‘A million people could have told him what he was doing was foolish, as it seemed to us outsiders looking in, but to him it was what he loved to do and you weren’t going to stop him,’ his friend, Emerson Lotzia, said.
‘Steve said it was scary over there. It was dangerous. It wasn’t safe to be over there. He knew it. He kept going back.’

British taxi driver who volunteered as an aid worker

Alan Henning, a father-of-two, was kidnapped on Boxing Day 2013 as he delivered aid to Syrian refugees
Alan Henning, a father-of-two, was kidnapped on Boxing Day 2013 as he delivered aid to Syrian refugees
Alan Henning, a father-of-two, was kidnapped on Boxing Day 2013 as he delivered aid to Syrian refugees.
The taxi-driver, from Manchester, was kept hostage until he was beheaded by Jihadi John on video in October 2014.
Before he was killed, Mr Henning was forced to tell the camera that he was being murdered in retaliation for parliament’s decision to attack ISIS.
Originally from Salford, he had seen the suffering first hand during a life-changing visit to a refugee camp, which inspired him to help the innocents whose lives were being wrecked by the conflict.
After volunteering with a Muslim charity, the 47-year-old agreed to drive 3,000 miles in a convoy of old ambulances to help the aid effort and take much-needed medical supplies to hospitals in the northern Syrian province of Idlib.
Known as ‘Gadget’ to friends and family for his fondness for technology, Mr Henning had been washing cars in the UK to raise money for donations before setting off on his fourth visit to the country.
He travelled with eight others from charity Al-Fathiha Global, who intended to deliver vital equipment, including NHS ambulances packed with baby milk, nappies, food and defibrillators, but was kidnapped by ISIS extremists on Boxing Day, shortly after making the 4,000-mile journey to the town of Al-Dana.
A fan of Phil Collins, which he enjoyed playing as he drove, Mr Henning was incredibly popular and during one trip insisted on sleeping inside his ambulance instead of a hotel to save money so it could be donated to the refugees instead.
Kasim Jameel, leader of the convoy on which Mr Henning was travelling when he was kidnapped, described his friend as a ‘big softie.’
Dr Shameela Islam-Zulfiqar, who was also in the convoy, said Mr Henning was ‘remarkable.’
‘He’s such a compassionate and selfless human being,’ she said. ‘It just simply wasn’t enough for Alan to sit back and just donate or raise awareness.
He had to get up and do something about what he’d seen Every time the convoys went he had a yearning to go. That really motivated him, to see, practically, first-hand the difference he was making.’

Scottish father-of-two who spent his career as an aid worker

David Haines, who was beheaded a week after Steven Sotloff, was the first British victim of Jihadi John
David Haines, who was beheaded a week after Steven Sotloff, was the first British victim of Jihadi John
David Haines, who was beheaded a week after Steven Sotloff, was the first British victim of Jihadi John.
The father-of-two, from Holderness, East Yorkshire, was taken hostage while working for relief agency ACTED in Syria in March this year.
He was captured near the Atmeh refugee camp, just inside the Syrian border with Turkey.
Mr Haines spent his career as an aid worker helping to protect innocent civilians in developing nations.
For more than two decades, he travelled with aid agencies through Syria, Libya, the former Yugoslavia and South Sudan.
He dedicated his life to promoting peace in places of violent conflict and oversaw projects to save civilians from land mines.
The 44-year-old was described as a hero by his family, who were inspired by him to travel the world on further aid missions.
He had a teenage daughter in Scotland from a previous marriage with his first wife, and a four-year-old daughter, Athea, in Croatia from his second wife.

ISIS ‘Beatles’ WILL be tried in US over beheading of British and American captives in Syria after Supreme Court overturned ‘ridiculous’ ruling that stopped UK sharing vital evidence with America

  • Alexanda Kotey, 36, and El-Shafee El-Sheikh, 32, were allegedly in terror cell
  • ‘Beatles’ were behind beheading of two British aid workers and two journalists
  • Ruling at Supreme Court today overturned a ban on UK sending evidence to US
  • El-Sheikh’s mother had challenged initial decision to share information in case

By Mark Duell and Dan Sales for Mail Online, 26 August 2020 |

The ISIS ‘Beatles’ will be sent to a maximum security prison in the US after officials there promised they would not be put to death if convicted of their barbaric crimes.

Alexanda Kotey, 36, and El-Shafee El-Sheikh, 32, are accused of being members of the terror cell named after the Liverpudlian band by their captives which was behind the beheading of two British aid workers and two US journalists.

But a ruling at the Supreme Court in London this morning overturned a ban on the Home Office and UK Government sending evidence over to t
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The court’s initial judgement on data protection had said providing evidence for criminal proceedings where they could be executed breached their human rights.
El-Shafee El-Sheikh (left), 32, and Alexanda Kotey (right), 36, were members of the ‘Beatles’ terror cell which was behind the beheading of two British aid workers and two US journalists
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El-Shafee El-Sheikh (left), 32, and Alexanda Kotey (right), 36, were members of the ‘Beatles’ terror cell which was behind the beheading of two British aid workers and two US journalists
At the ‘supermax’ US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, the grounds are patrolled by attack dogs and the towers are manned with sharpshooters
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At the ‘supermax’ US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, the grounds are patrolled by attack dogs and the towers are manned with sharpshooters
The court had ruled after El-Sheikh’s mother Maha Elgizouli challenged the then home secretary Savid Javid’s initial decision to share the information in the case.
She believes her son should face justice but that any trial should take place in the UK, but the new development means Britain can now share information with the US.
Prosecutors in the US initially planned to seek Kotey and El-Sheikh’s execution – and the British government want the pair prosecuted in the US, where it is thought there is a more realistic chance of prosecution than in UK.

But the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that Britain could not provide any assistance to US investigators when the threat of death hung over the two men.

Last week US Attorney General Bill Barr said capital punishment could be dropped in any cases against them in an effort to pave the way for the men – currently being held in military detention in Iraq – to finally face justice and stand trial in the US.

He set a two-month deadline for any transfer of evidence to begin or the pair would face justice in Iraq, where ISIS fighters are sentenced to hang after five-minute hearings.

The supermax jail in Colorado has housed the most notorious and violent criminals in the US

The supermax in Colorado is home to 490 convicted terrorists, gang leaders and neo-Nazis
However the new ruling means Kotey and El-Sheikh face a life sentence at the notorious ‘supermax’, formally known as the US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado.

It is home to 490 convicted terrorists, gang leaders and neo-Nazis. Many have been transferred from other prisons after killing inmates or prison staff.

They include Richard Reid, the attempted shoe bomber; Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker; and al-Qaeda terrorists behind the bombing of the World Trade Centre in 1993 and the bombing of the US embassies in Africa.

The prison was built after the murder of two prison officers at a high security prison in Marion, Illinois.
The perimeter of the 35-acre site is guarded by 12ft high razor wire fences, laser-beams, pressure pads and attack dogs.

Inmates are kept in cells measuring 7ft by 12ft for 23 hours a day. The bed, desk and stool are immovable and cast from poured concrete. The cells also feature shower cubicals and a toilet.
Wardens have previously told the European Convention on Human Rights that daily exercise is taken in pens measuring 12ft by 20ft, containing pull-up bars and footballs.
Prisoners are allowed to talk to each other between pens, or through the ventilation grills in their cells.
A former British military intelligence officer told the Daily Mirror: ‘Justice in the States for Kotey and El-Sheikh will not be about rehabilitation, but serious punishment and revenge.
‘Theirs will be a life of aching drudgery and boredom. The supermax strips away any comfort and distraction. It will be their worst nightmare. Wardens have previously told the European Convention on Human Rights that daily exercise is taken in pens measuring 12ft by 20ft, containing pull-up bars and footballs
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Wardens have previously told the European Convention on Human Rights that daily exercise is taken in pens measuring 12ft by 20ft, containing pull-up bars and footballs
Prisoners can talk to each other between pens, or through the ventilation grills in their cells
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Prisoners can talk to each other between pens, or through the ventilation grills in their cells
‘In many ways being locked up for the rest of your life in a featureless and excruciatingly monotonous place is for some people a fate worse than the death penalty.’
Kotey and El-Sheikh, who were raised in the UK but have been stripped of their British citizenship, were captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces in January 2018.

They are accused of being complicit in the murders of 27 people, including the British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and four Americans.

Other members of the ISIS cell are said to include Mohammed Emwazi, the group’s ringleader, also known as Jihadi John, who was killed in a US air strike in 2015, while Aine Davis is in jail in Turkey for terror offences.

Emwazi appeared in a number of videos in which hostages, including British aid workers Mr Haines and Mr Henning and US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, were killed.

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

some good GREAT news

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Halal: Eastern Iran, when do you think this image was made?
* 2,000 BC
* 1,000 AD
* 1880
* last weekcomment image

rueda
rueda
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Great documentary. Nice evening from Edmonton. Canada

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  rueda

E = all the above.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

last week

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Yeah, 2009. Amazing, isn’t it… and these guys want nukes. It’s like that in many desert areas of Iran, with unbelievable poverty. These mud hut dwellers are doing much better than the many nomads living in tents made of woven grass mats.

Belfast
Belfast
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Did you notice that even in this poverty, they have bars on the windows?

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Belfast

They have no police.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Mud Hut Condo Sale!

Name
Name
3 years ago

These vermin don’t need trials. They need to be taken out and executed immediately. The trials will be farcical and any punishment will be delayed for 30-30 years while endless appeals will delay justice.

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
3 years ago
Reply to  Name

When Kublai Khan found out his most trusted adviser was stealing from him he reinstated the Death by A Thousand Cuts just for him. A lot of people don’t understand how that works but the person has cuts put into their flesh starting on the feet and then lowered into a vat of brine. It is done over many days, cut a bit, lower a bit, until the person is actually pickled to death. If you’ve ever had salt get into a cut you can probably imagine what a fitting punishment this would be for the muslim scum.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  Trevor Fortune

Yeah, but just whacking off their wang before killing them will render them impotent so they won’t enjoy the 72 virgins.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  Trevor Fortune

I’m usually an advocate of hanging for absolute murderous scum like this but I’m a traditionalist at heart and on American soil I’d go with the American tradition of the Electric Chair.
Wheel out Old Sparky and set the bastards ablaze until their eyeballs pop.

dragondog 59
dragondog 59
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

Yep. Ride the Lightning.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  dragondog 59

Yeeeeeehaaaawwww!!!
See that muzrat fry????

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  Name

Overseas crimes should be tried at Gitmo. Speedier system…..

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Yes + Yes with Death Penalty for provable war crimes = just chum the waters 1/2mile offshore real good for Bull Sharks.

Then drop the brave convicted murderers off to swim back to shore one at a time w/video to share as a promise to the rest with fins cutting the surface all around’em.
Nothing cruel or unusual about it because it would be “PETA Approved” for feeding the fishes…!

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago
Reply to  Name

I agree, trials give these psychos an opportunity to grandstand although being cowards they will very likely grovel and beg forgiveness. While scum lawyers try to claim they are ‘misunderstood’

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago
Reply to  Name

Then get released when the next ” pandemic ” gets loosed on an unsuspecting world populace under ” humanitarian ” auspices –

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago

I vote to leave them to their fate in Iraq where ISIS fighters are sentenced to hang after five-minute hearings.

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

no pleasure to try them hard and display them as the cockroaches they are.Then Boredom until death, no way to commit suicide

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

Solve a lot of expenses to U.S. taxpayers…!

taxpayer22
taxpayer22
3 years ago

War criminals during a foreign war do not deserve US Constitutional protections.

Not like a US bank robbery.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

I’m Sure Trump has this on his to-do list, and it would work very well:comment image

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Economic collapse. That’s what finally got the USSR. Out build ’em.
A satirical article back during the Vietnam war suggested that the Air Force drop major appliances instead of bombs on North Vietnam. The NV people would become so acclimated to washers, dryers, and dishwashers that they would turn into capitalists and overthrow Ho Chi Minh. it would have been cheaper for us, too. Bombs are expensive.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

There’s truth here…today with the internet the tyrant leaders can’t get away with lying to their “followers” about America and Liberty except N.Korea w/no internet where the main food in warm weather is grasshoppers + grass etc = starving in cold weather = why adults weigh only 80-100lbs…!

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

Why here?
Just giving them more publicity and celebrity ……. aren’t these terrorist enough?!!
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David Grisez
David Grisez
3 years ago

I hope these terrorists get convicted and sent to Florence Supermax Prison. There are already a number of Islamic terrorists in Florence Supermax .

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  David Grisez

Gitmo

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
3 years ago

“the towers are manned with sharpshooters” How does one apply for that job? Remember the old TV show, Have Gun Will Travel?

Bill
Bill
3 years ago
Reply to  Trevor Fortune

‘Wire Palladin, San Fransisco’
Richard Boone.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  Bill

????????

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  Trevor Fortune

You’d get fed up waiting for one of the scumbags to try and make an escape????

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

I might have to fall back on that old South Park episode about changes to hunting laws, “He was coming right at me.”

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  Trevor Fortune

Bang!???? Gotcha! ya filthy evader of justice????

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  Trevor Fortune

Have every episode on DVD – truly a man for all seasons.
He never shot anyone who didn’t have it coming.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago

The British government’s collective mindset is one of appeasing sissies.
Not a whole lot different from Neville Chamberlain, eh?

Francis
Francis
3 years ago

The only problem with this is that the American taxpayers will have to pay to feed that garbage for 30 years. The demonrats will send them teddy bears and lollipops and riot while demanding their release.

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago

A rare occasion of out higher court using common sense. I am confident that if you took polls a good % of Uk people would vote for them getting the death penalty.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

This Brit would vote that way????????

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

The UK is lost to political correctness, social justice, and the left leaning mobs.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
3 years ago
Reply to  stephen5970

Like the USA the UK judiciary and establishment are divided by the left and right leaning sides and in this case the Right leaning side has won the argument.
Only part of the UK is lost as in America only part is lost.
See the picture?

CARRENO  BARTOX
CARRENO BARTOX
3 years ago

Remove all employees and burn the prison down.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

GITMO with “Death Penalty” for provable war crimes = just chum the waters 1/2mile offshore real good for Bull Sharks.

Then drop the brave convicted murderers off to swim back to shore one at a time w/live video of their bro’s to share as a promise to the rest seen with fins cutting the ocean surface all around’em.
Nothing cruel or unusual about it because it would be “PETA Approved” for feeding the fishes…!

Jack Holan
Jack Holan
3 years ago

I don’t see why Murderers of 2 Brits and 2 Americans in the 1st Degree and a Hate Crime to boot should be spared the Death Penalty. It this is the case then let them be tried in Iraq, face the gallows there smarty aXX Mom and see if you’re anymore satisfied that a Muslim pulled the lever. If it were any Muslim Country they likely will go straight to death. In the US, they’ll have lawyers fighting each other to get the case. They’ll probably live another 15 years or more before their appeals run out. You know in an Arab country once the sentence comes down it’s a short corridor to the gallows Now it’s up to you. If they live at the facility in Colorado, they’ll have a wonderful life. It’s designed for animals of their character. They’ll be locked down 23/7 with 1 hour outside in a cage by themselves, unable to speak to others. I don’t think TV or Internet is a high priority Mum. They have a life of their own, alone. There will be no pardons, release. The release will come when they go to HEXX. An uneven exchange but we did our best.

Badger
Badger
3 years ago

I don’t know what the best way to deal with them is. I what I want to happen can’t happen thanks to the UK attitude to capital punishment. That being a long trial and a fixed date for execution by hanging, say in six months time so they will be counting the days. Hanging because blood must be spilt for a martyr to get to paradise and an injection would mean blood, even though it might be less than a drop, just so the murderer cannot take comfort from that.

The Syrian hanging within hours of conviction doesn’t give them enough time to experience to the full the fear of death with no paradise.

Supermax? A lifetime of boredom is definitely my idea of hell on earth.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
3 years ago

rabid muslim pigs

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago

I believe it is a huge mistake to forgo the death penalty in this case. They will only be a continual source of potential danger and aggravation while in prison. The better thing to do would be to let them be executed by the method they employed, perhaps by some in our military who have iron wills and guts. As a grace to them I would have everyone of them separated from each other and let them hear nothing but Bible for a solid month; day and night. Of course that would be called a human rights violation. It could never happen.

UR.carrion
UR.carrion
3 years ago

Do not bring them here! Execute them where they are and burn the bodies immediately.

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago

Makes me so angry that the MSM called these low life pond scum as The Beatles.
That guy Foley said in his last words, I wish wasnt born an American, maybe being a nice wee muslim in Syria would have been better for him.
What I really dont understand is, the guy is dressed in an orange jumpsuit, the masked guy has his knife on his throat, he knows he is about to be murdered so why not stand up, why not at least struggle, but he just stayed on his knees.
I would rather die on my feet than allow such low life to cut off my head while I knell for them to do so.

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