Accused ISIS 'Beatle,' on trial for brutal kidnappings, faces mothers of American victims
ABC News
A British man accused of being one of the four ISIS "Beatles" who beat and killed U.S. hostages in Syria was faced down in federal court by two of their victims' mothers.
A British man accused of being one of the infamous quartet of ISIS terrorists nicknamed the "Beatles" by prisoners who they beat and executed was faced down in federal court this week by two of their victims' mothers, and one man who survived their brutality.
El Shafee Elsheikh is accused of a direct role in holding hostage four Americans, several Britons, and other captives between 2013 and 2014 at several makeshift prisons in Syria.
At his trial this week in U.S. federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, prosecutors called as witnesses the mothers of two Americans who did not survive as hostages of ISIS, journalist James Foley and humanitarian aid worker Kayla Mueller.
Foley, of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 along with British journalist John Cantlie, and was held for nearly two years before he was shown beheaded in a gruesome video by the ISIS Beatle dubbed "Jihadi John," whose real name was Mohammed Emwazi.
