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Londoners Alexanda Kotey and Aine Davis identified as Isis 'Beatles'
Source: The Guardian
Londoners Alexanda Kotey and Aine Davis identified as Isis 'Beatles'
Kotey (whereabouts unknown) and Davis (detained last November) verified as part of kidnap and beheading gang that included Mohammed Emwazi
Robert Booth, Ewen MacAskill, Duncan Gardham and Damien Gayle
Sunday 7 February 2016 19.16 GMT
A member of the Islamic State cell that oversaw the detention and beheading of western hostages in Syria has been identified as a 32-year-old Londoner, the Guardian has confirmed.
Alexanda Kotey, a convert to Islam who grew up in west London, has been named as part of the British group nicknamed “the Beatles”, which included Mohammed Emwazi.
Emwazi’s kidnap gang has overseen the videoed beheadings of victims including the British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines, and the US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley.
Kotey is described as of Ghanaian and Greek-Cypriot background and his whereabouts are unknown. His fellow west Londoner Emwazi was killed in a drone strike in November.
Another west Londoner, Aine Davis, 31, has also been confirmed as part of the cell. Emwazi, Kotey and Davis, a former drug dealer who went to Syria in 2013, were friends in west London and attended the same mosque.
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Kotey (whereabouts unknown) and Davis (detained last November) verified as part of kidnap and beheading gang that included Mohammed Emwazi
Robert Booth, Ewen MacAskill, Duncan Gardham and Damien Gayle
Sunday 7 February 2016 19.16 GMT
A member of the Islamic State cell that oversaw the detention and beheading of western hostages in Syria has been identified as a 32-year-old Londoner, the Guardian has confirmed.
Alexanda Kotey, a convert to Islam who grew up in west London, has been named as part of the British group nicknamed “the Beatles”, which included Mohammed Emwazi.
Emwazi’s kidnap gang has overseen the videoed beheadings of victims including the British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines, and the US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley.
Kotey is described as of Ghanaian and Greek-Cypriot background and his whereabouts are unknown. His fellow west Londoner Emwazi was killed in a drone strike in November.
Another west Londoner, Aine Davis, 31, has also been confirmed as part of the cell. Emwazi, Kotey and Davis, a former drug dealer who went to Syria in 2013, were friends in west London and attended the same mosque.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/07/londoner-alexanda-kotey-identified-member-isis-group-jihadi-john
Source: Washington Post
Another Islamic State jailer who held Western hostages identified as Londoner
By Adam Goldman and Souad Mekhennet February 7 at 7:45 AM
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
Kotey is the second militant among the group of Islamic State jailers to be named following the unmasking last year by The Washington Post of “Jihadi John” as Mohammed Emwazi — the infamous masked man, also a West Londoner, who beheaded American, British and Japanese hostages on video as he taunted Western leaders.
Emwazi, 27, was killed in a drone strike in November in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria, along with another unidentified man. It is unclear whether that second man was also one of the four guards who watched over and tortured Western hostages and were nicknamed the “Beatles” by their prisoners because of their English accents.
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By Adam Goldman and Souad Mekhennet February 7 at 7:45 AM
A member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, a 32-year-old convert to Islam who grew up in West London.
Kotey is the second militant among the group of Islamic State jailers to be named following the unmasking last year by The Washington Post of “Jihadi John” as Mohammed Emwazi — the infamous masked man, also a West Londoner, who beheaded American, British and Japanese hostages on video as he taunted Western leaders.
Emwazi, 27, was killed in a drone strike in November in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria, along with another unidentified man. It is unclear whether that second man was also one of the four guards who watched over and tortured Western hostages and were nicknamed the “Beatles” by their prisoners because of their English accents.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/another-islamic-state-jailer-who-held-western-hostages-identified-as-londoner/2016/02/06/a0f11d28-cc10-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html
