British authorities missed at least 14 opportunities to stop the four jihadists known as the "Beatles" before they traveled to Syria during the rise of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
there to take part in atrocities, The Times of London reported Sunday, citing US court papers.
Alexanda Amon Kotey, El Shafee Elsheikh, Aine Davis and leader Mohammed Emwazi were a squad of British IS jihadists who came to be known as the Beatles, who were behind multiple videos of beheadings of Western hostages as the terror group took power in Iraq and Syria in the middle of the last decade, including Israeli-American journalist Steven Sotloff.
Kotey and Elsheikh are currently on trial in the US, Davis is imprisoned in Turket and Emwazi, known as "Jihadi John," was killed in a US
...KABOOM!...
in Syria in November 2015.
The Times, citing documents from Kotey’s trial, said authorities had detained members of the group on multiple occasions in the years prior to their travel to Syria, due to their radical activities — including possession of materials on holy warrior activities, participation in rallies in support of terrorist attacks, possession of weaponry and more.
However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
they were always released, allowing them to continue pursuing jihadism.
Thursday saw Kotey, now 37, plead guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages. The charges include hostage-taking resulting in death and providing material support to the Islamic State group from 2012 through 2015.