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2017-01-11 Terror Networks
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U.S. Blacklists Member of 'Beatles' Islamic State Cell, Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, Hizb'allah
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[AnNahar] The United States on Tuesday blacklisted a surviving British member of the notorious Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
kidnapping cell popularly known as "The Beatles" as a global terrorist threat.
The State Department identified 33-year-old British Ghanaian jihadist Alexanda Amon Kotey as a member of the Islamic State unit that beheaded two dozen hostages in Syria.
Among those murdered were three Americans -- journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig -- and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.
Some of the group's hostages were released and later revealed their captors spoke with British accents and were nicknamed The Beatles after the 1960s rock group by their victims.
The group leader and most notorious executioner, Mohammed Emwazi or "Jihadi John," was killed last year in a dronezap by the US-led coalition fighting the IS group.
But, according to the State Department designation, London-born Kotey is still thought to be on the lam somewhere in or near the IS stronghold of Raqa, in eastern Syria.
"As a guard for the cell, Kotey likely engaged in the group's executions and exceptionally cruel torture methods, including electric shock and waterboarding," the statement said.
Kotey is also known by several aliases, including Abu Salih al-Britani. He was born in the Paddington district of London and holds British, Ghanaian and Greek Cypriot nationality.
As a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," US citizens are forbidden from dealing with him and world law enforcement is informed that he "is actively engaged in terrorism."
U.S. Adds Two Hizbullah Members to 'Terrorism' Sanctions List
[AnNahar] The Obama administration said overnight Monday that it has added two senior members of Hizbullah to its “terrorism” sanctions list.
The State Department said that Ali Damush and Mustafa Mughniyeh have been named “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
Mughniyeh is a Hizbullah commander with extensive family links to the group. He's the nephew of Hizbullah's previous military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed near the Syrian capital last year, and the son of military commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a 2008 car bombing in Damascus that Hizbullah blamed on Israel.
Damush is an aide to the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. He heads the group's foreign relations department, which the State Department says "engages in covert terrorist operations around the world."
Also Tuesday, the department designated the Indonesia-based Jamaah Ansharut Daulah as a terrorist organization. The group has pledged allegiance to IS and was blamed for a January 2016 suicide kaboom in Jakarta that killed four people. 
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