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Two British ‘Beatles’ Islamic State Fighters Captured In Syria<\/b><\/p>\n

Two British Islamic State<\/a> militants known for their role in the torture and killing of Western hostages have been captured by Syrian Kurdish fighters,\u00a0according to US officials.<\/p>\n

The men<\/a> were part of a group of four militants known as \u2018The Beatles\u2019 for their British accents and have been named as\u00a0Alexanda Kotey<\/a>, 34,\u00a0and\u00a0El Shafee Elsheikh<\/a>, 29, reports the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both have already been stripped of their UK citizenship.<\/p>\n

The most infamous of the \u2018Beatles\u2019 was Jihadi John<\/a>\u00a0– aka Mohammed Emwazi -who decapitated a number of hostages in IS propaganda videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was killed in an airstrike<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n

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Inside Jihadi John’s lair: Britain’s most notorious Isil terrorists unmasked together for the first time t.co\/bRjGCoYoN1<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/DVxgW2Y5sc<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The US State Department sanctioned Kotey in January 2017, saying he was a guard for the \u201cBeatles\u201d and \u201clikely engaged in the group\u2019s executions and exceptionally cruel torture methods, including electronic shock and waterboarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kotey had also acted as a recruiter and was responsible for recruiting several British nationals to join the militant group,\u00a0reports Reuters.<\/p>\n

In March 2017, the State Department sanctioned Elsheikh, saying he was \u201csaid to have earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions while serving as an ISIS jailer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most notorious of the four was Mohammed Emwazi, known as \u201cJihadi John,\u201d an executioner of hostages made famous by Islamic State videos<\/a> of beheadings.<\/p>\n

A US-British missile strike believed to have killed Emwazi, a British citizen of Arab origin, was months in preparation but came together at lightning speed in 2015 in the Syrian town of Raqqa, according to U.S. officials.<\/p>\n

Emwazi became the public face of Islamic State and a symbol of its brutality after appearing in videos<\/a> showing the murders of U.S. journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto and other hostages.<\/p>\n

In December the newly-installed UK Defence Secretary said Britons who have travelled abroad to fight for the so-called Islamic State should be \u201celiminated\u201d and not allowed to return home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gavin Williamson<\/a>\u00a0said: \u201cA dead terrorist can\u2019t cause any harm to Britain.<\/p>\n

He told the Daily Mail: \u201cI do not believe that any terrorist, whether they come from this country or any other, should ever be allowed back to this country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should do everything we can do to destroy and eliminate that threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nwww.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/british-beatles-islamic-state-fighters_uk_5a7cb243e4b0c6726e10f01d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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