Posted on 09/26/2014 6:42:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
FBI Director James Comey said the agency has identified the ISIS executioner who beheaded American journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker John Haines.
Comey would not identify the executioner’s nationality or identity to the media, though you’ll remember he spoke with a British accent in the videos.
The man, dubbed ‘Jihadi John,’ is one of four British jihadis known as the ‘Beatles’ that are currently holding hostages in Syria.
The Daily Mail has more details:
British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond revealed intelligence agencies were closing the net on Jihadi John.
Hammond, who just ten days ago admitted special forces didn't know where the Islamic terror group was holding its British hostages, said the investigation into tracking down the killer with the British accent was 'narrowing down the field'.
Speaking to American television network CNN at the United Nations summit in New York, Mr Hammond said: 'We are getting warm, we are working on all the leads.
'There's a big investigation and we are getting warm. We're narrowing down the field, but I don't want to say any more at this stage.' […]
The US Senate has also offered a £6 million reward to anyone providing information that could lead to the capture of Jihadi John.
A team of more than a dozen US investigators from an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force flew to the UK, where they are working with MI5 and anti-terrorist officers from the Metropolitan Police Force to identify the man.
It is believed family members of Jihadi John have been interviewed by Met officers and an FBI agent.
The source said Jihadi John was known to the security services even before he went to Syria, but had been regarded as a 'low-level player'.
Comey also said that the agency believes ISIS is ‘looking to try to do something in the U.S.,’ but went on to say he didn’t believe the group is capable of a complex or sophisticated attack at the moment.
The ISIS way is to round up his family and hold them responsible for his actions....
I had seen the guilty plea of his father Adel Abdul Bary in an American court. This 53 year old man fled his native Egypt and was given a death sentence in absentia. He got political asylum in England and a expensive house in West London. His gift to that country was to plot terrorism on American embassies abroad. His son was born there in 1990. What a beauty he turned out to be!
The authorities began extradition proceedings 1998 for the father. Crazy, but he held them off for 14 years. Rights lawyers no doubt. Finally he was sent to the USA. The Egyptians want him dead. What a fool!
Better watch out for the new CIA secret weapon. It's a Stuxnet-Aides-Ebola hybrid virus that spreads like wildfire in goats!!!
Borat is innocent.
Not at all. I understand there are cultural differences at play here. I just want him to have a chance to explain himself so we can understand why he felt it necessary to do what he did.
It's all about understanding.
Quick, somebody — draw a red line!
I hope there is a public uproar from Beatles fans over the media’s use of the name and associating it with savage terrorists!
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