Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, two of the Islamic State “Beatles” who starred in many of the terrorist group’s brutal execution videos, were flown to the United States from Iraq on Wednesday and charged in federal court for the murders of James Foley and other American hostages.
U.S. Attorney-General William Barr has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel promising not to seek the death penalty against the so-called “Beatles” terrorists after British judges ruled the UK government could not provide the Americans with evidence against them if a conviction might result in their execution.
Two of the four British nationals-turned Islamic State jihadists dubbed ‘The Beatles’ have admitted to beating Western hostages, as well as being jailers of American aid worker Kayla Mueller.
Colonel Richard Kemp, former chairman of the British government intelligence coordination body Cobra has written in British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that leaving the European Union will present a golden opportunity to strengthen counter-terrorism laws, and even to bring back the death penalty.
