British authorities had accumulated compelling evidence during their own investigation and U.S. or even transferred to Guantanamo, which then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions had called a "very fine place" even though prosecutions there have floundered, lagging behind the speedier justice of American courts. Inside the Justice Department, officials weighed whether the men should be tried in the U.K. and Britain as hypocrites who wouldn't give them a fair trial. Weeks later, they appeared unapologetic while speaking to The Associated Press at a Kurdish security center, denouncing the U.S. That left Kotey and Elsheikh, who were captured in Syria in 2018 by American-backed forces. government treated them "like worthless insects."Īn airstrike killed the group's most notorious member, who had killed Foley and was known by the moniker of "Jihadi John." Another was prosecuted in Turkey. An email to the Foleys tauntingly told them the U.S. The pair also coordinated ransom demands, the indictment says. Elsheikh once videotaped the shooting of a Syrian hostage as Kotey directed hostages to watch while holding signs pleading for their release, prosecutors say. The beheadings were part of a reign of terror that officials say also involved waterboarding, mock executions and electric shocks. But eight years after her son was captured by ISIS terrorists in Syria, there was a step Tuesday in the right direction. It’s been a hard fought battle for Diane Foley, mother of beheaded New Hampshire conflict journalist James Foley. The first showed James Foley, captured as a freelance journalist covering Syria's civil war, kneeling in the desert in an orange jumpsuit beside a masked man in black brandishing a knife to his throat. The group of militants, called "the Beatles" by their captives because of their British accents, came to embody ISIS barbarism with the 2014 release of grisly propaganda videos depicting the beheadings of American hostages. But, "we didn't want to bring them here unless we had really good charges, a really strong case, and ultimately expected a conviction that was going to result in a very significant prison sentence." "There was never a time when I thought we didn't have any case," said John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security. Now federal prosecutors are pursuing the highest-profile terrorism case since trials over the Boston Marathon bombing and Benghazi attack, aiming to secure convictions and punishments that can keep the men, in their 30s, imprisoned for life. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for military tribunals. 11 attacks, the Republican-led Justice Department favored detaining foreign fighters at the U.S.
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