FBI Identifies ISIS Executioner in Beheading Videos




Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah
Sep25, 2014

The United States has identified the militant in the videos depicting the killings of two US journalists and a British aid worker, FBI Director James Comey told reporters on Thursday.

Comey, said his agents believe they have identified the man nicknamed "Jihadi John" but would not be releasing his identity.

In the three videos, the man speaks British-accented English. He holds a long knife and appears to begin cutting the three men

American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker David Haines were all killed in a similarly public, brutal fashion. The life of another British citizen, Alan Henning, was threatened in the last video.

British authorities refused to comment on the FBI’s statement, and would not say whether any arrests were imminent in the London area , according to The Daily Mail.

last week, A new video posted online by supporters of the Islamic State militant purportedly shows a British journalist who was captured nearly two years ago in Syria.

The Internet video, titled “Lend Me Your Ears” and subtitled in Arabic, shows the journalist, John Cantlie, dressed in an orange jumpsuit and apparently reading from a script,

Cantlie also makes clear that the film is just the first of a series of "programmes" that he will be filming.

"I'm going to show you the truth as the western media tries to drag the public back to the abyss of another war with the Islamic State," he says.

Cantlie, 43, a freelance photographer who had contributed to British newspapers including The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph, as well as to Agence France-Presse,He had previously been detained along with a Dutch photographer by extremists in Syria in July 2012,released after nine days but four months later chose to return to the country, where he was abducted a second time and sold on to Isis.

The Sun and the Sunday Telegraph reported the existence of the video, but have not confirmed that the man in it is Cantlie or has worked for the newspapers. The Sunday Times has not yet reported the story.

Sources

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11122245/FBI-identifies-Jihadi-John.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29371707

http://abcnews.go.com/International/fbi-identifies-isis-executioner-bureau-chief/story?id=25758906

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