Posted on 08/24/2014 1:05:06 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a British rapper, is suspected by UK's SAS to be John, the man with an English accent who beheaded American journalist James Foley last week, the New York Post reports.
In early August, Bary tweeted a photo of himself wearing a camouflage and black hood, while holding on his left hand a decapitated head.
The 24-year-old rapper is the son of an Egypt-born militant now waiting for trial in Manhattan on terror charges for the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
He is one of the jihadists named by former hostages as member of the group they called Beatles because of their British accent. The two others are called "George" and "Ringo," also named after the two other members of the popular 1960s boy band.
Bary's build, skin tone and accent are similar to John's, plus he went to Syria in 2013 to fight in the civil war. Prior to flying to Syria, he was known as L Jinny, an aspiring rapper from West London. His music was played on BBC Radio 1.
His being a rapper and having recordings of his voice would provide investigators, who are using voice recognition technology, more ways to confirm is he is the jihadist John.
The wannabe-rapper also had come out in music videos titled Overdose, Flying High and Dreamer.
After being indoctrinated by an Islamic preacher named Anjem Choudary, he left the family residence in Maide Vale district in London "for the sake of Allah."
Besides Bary, other suspects in the decapitation of Foley are 30-year-old Aine Davis, a former drug dealer and an ex-gang member who has converted to Islam and has been to Syria, and Dr Shajul Islam, the sibling of a British doctor accused of kidnapping two Western war reporters whose medical licence was suspended by the National Health Service. He used to work at St Bart's Hospital.
Islam and his two older brothers, however, were released in 2013 because British journalist John Cantile and Dutch photographer Jeroen Derlmans did not testify against the siblings.
The doctor claimed he went to Syria to treat victims of the civil war, which is still ongoing.
His brother Razul had also been to Syria and is believed to be fighting with the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
To help identify the killers of Foley, a dozen counterterrorism expert from the US are coming to the UK.
not funny
Last name Bary?
Huh, I thought it was spelled ‘Barry’ and used differently, as in Barry Hussein.
Move on. No chain of solid physical evidence, it is all circumstantial. There are no living witnesses, and nobody is talking. Besides, what court of law would take the case? All permitted under Shariah law, and no other jurisprudence applies. < /sarcasm >
Not only that, but I think ‘the cat got his tongue’.
Oh, well, let’s bring him to trial immediately... < /sarcasm>
The Beatles are now considered a "boy band?" If so, I guess the Rolling Stones, The Who, the Grateful Dead, and AC/DC are now considered "boy bands," simply because they had no female members.
Why is this assassin still alive? Oh, I forgot....
The walrus was Paul.
Abdel Bary: the rising rap star who rejected drugs and chose jihad instead
Great - now all we have to do is go over to Iraq, catch him, arrest him and bring him back here for trial, according to Holder - who’s going to do that?......
No comment. Except to say...well...I think most here know.
No,boy band because its initial audience was girls, at least when they started getting popular. Plus there was the hysteria as well.
Really, the idea of the Beatles being a “boy band” is stupid.
I probably shouldn’t be laughing about that, but what can I say? It was clever, and a good turn of the phrase, almost British in it’s macabre humor. If a family member of that reporter was in my presence, then no, I would be joking, but that is not the case. If this happened to any one I know, I would benefit by just staying offline for a week or two. Stay away from the commentary forums for a while. Whatever can be said will be said by someone online.
would be executed, one by one, unless Moscow pressured pro-Syrian militiamen to cease shelling positions held by the pro-Iranian fundamentalist militia in Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli . . . the KGB kidnapped a man they knew to be a close relative of a prominent [Muslim] leader. They then castrated him and sent the severed organs to the [Muslim], before dispatching the unfortunate kinsman with a bullet in the brain . . . the KGB operatives also advised the [Muslim] that they knew the indentities of other close relatives of his, and that he could expect more such packages if the [remaining] three Soviet diplomats were not freed immediately.They were.
It's serious.
It's time.
Yeah, kind of a misnomer in their case, though they were the right age (teens and early 20s) when they started out. However, the Beatles became the template for the boy band as we would understand it: a manufactured band comprising young men with distinctive characters, etc. The Monkees were meant to be patterned after the Beatles' performances in A Hard Day's Night.
Somewhat skeptical. As I understand it, the SAS is the rough equivalent of US Delta Force.
They're the guys who plan and complete raids, etc.
The primary job of SAS is not to collect and analyze data, other groups do that, such as MI5 and MI6. SAS just kills the people they're aimed at.
But I could certainly be wrong, and would welcome knowledgeable correction.
Boy Band?
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