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Omaha Steve

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Thu Sep 2, 2021, 09:46 PM Sep 2021

British national pleads guilty to role in terror beheadings

Source: AP

By MATTHEW BARAKAT

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A British national admitted Thursday evening in a federal courtroom near the nation’s capital that he played a leadership role in an Islamic State scheme to torture, hold for ransom and eventually behead American hostages.

Alexanda Anon Kotey, 37, pleaded guilty to all eight counts against him at a plea hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. The charges include hostage-taking resulting in death and providing material support to the Islamic State group from 2012 through 2015.

He admitted guilt in connection with the deaths of four American hostages — journalist James Foley, journalist Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller — as well as European and Japanese nationals who also were held captive.

Kotey is one of four Islamic State members who were dubbed “the Beatles” by their captives because of their British accents. He and another man, El Shafee Elsheikh, were brought to the U.S. last year to face charges after the U.S. assured Britain that neither man would face the death penalty.



FILE - In this Friday, March 30, 2018, file photo, Alexanda Amon Kotey, allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria. Kotey, a British national admitted Thursday evening, Sept. 2, 2021 in a federal courtroom near the nation's capital that he played a leadership role in an Islamic State scheme to torture, hold for ransom and eventually behead American hostages. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-race-and-ethnicity-islamic-state-group-9b4090d7780e64118c2e033e0c71dc98

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British national pleads guilty to role in terror beheadings (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sep 2021 OP
Put them in a square box... jimmil Sep 2021 #1
Weld the door of his cell closed. oneshooter Sep 2021 #2
ISIS' depravity made the Taliban look like schoolchildren The Unmitigated Gall Sep 2021 #3

The Unmitigated Gall

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3. ISIS' depravity made the Taliban look like schoolchildren
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 12:12 PM
Sep 2021

By comparison. This fucker...solitary for the rest of his life. ZERO human interaction except for large portraits of the people he helped to kill, and keep a light shining on them day and night.

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