El Shafee Elsheikh, a member of the “Beatles” cell of the terrorist group ISIS, was convicted earlier this week by an American courtroom for abductions and deaths of 4 US nationals between 2012-15.
El Shafee was convicted on eight costs – 4 conspiracy costs for affiliation with ISIS and 4 costs for hostage-taking that brought on deaths of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and help employees Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.
A former ISIS member who testified within the courtroom known as El Shafee an necessary, high-ranking member of the terrorist group and “a part of the ISIS aristocracy”.
Who have been the Beatles and why have been they named so?
The Beatles have been a gaggle of 4 ISIS terrorists, who have been named after the British band due to their English accents. The 4 of them have been – Aine Davis, Alexanda Kotey, El Shafee Elsheikh, and Mohammed Emwazi.
They have been additional nicknamed by their hostages as John, Paul, George and Ringo.
The 4 of them took hostages both for ranson or for launch of ISIS members. They beheaded a complete of 27 hostages, in response to US officers.
They grew up in West London and joined ISIS to battle in Syria the place they ultimately ended up taking and killing Western hostages.
What’s the present standing of the Beatles?
Mohammed Emwazi was dubbed Jihadi John as he appeared in numerous movies displaying ISIS beheading prisoners all through 2014. This garnered him worldwide notoriety.
Emwazi was killed in a drone strike in 2015.
Aine Davis, a convertee Muslim, met radicalised Muslims in London with Emwazi. He left the UK to affix ISIS in 2013. He’s at the moment imprisoned in Turkey.
Alexanda Kotey, raised a Greek Orthodox Christian, transformed to Islam as a young person.
Kotey was captured together with El Shafee in 2018 by US-allied Syrian Kurds preventing ISIS and was dropped at the US in 2020 for trial. He pleaded responsible final yr in a US courtroom for a number of costs of homicide of 4 US nationals.
Each Kotey and El Shafee face life imprisonment.
The Beatles have been the face of ISIS brutality
The Beatles not simply captured and executed folks but additionally tortured them in captivity.
Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, turned a mascot of types for ISIS as he got here on digicam to beahed the hostages. His clips have been shared in shock and horror the world over, driving residence the arrival of ISIS on the worldwide terrorism stage.
American help employee Kayla Mueller, who was underneath the Beatles’ captivity, is believed to have been raped by ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi earlier than she was killed, in response to US officers cited by Washington Examiner.
The US particular forces workforce that ultimately killed Baghdadi in 2019 dubbed their mission “Activity Drive 8-14” on Mueller’s date of delivery – 14 August 1988.
