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Jason marz/Getty Images(ALEXANDRIA, Va.) A member of a group of British Islamic State terrorists dubbed "the Beatles" by their hostages was sentenced Friday in U.S. federal court to 8 concurrent life terms for kidnapping and murdering freelance journalist James Foley, as well as participating in the detention and murders of three other Americans. The sentencing of El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, comes on the eighth anniversary of Foley's murder which was broadcast across the world in a chilling beheading video by ISIS. Elsheikh was also convicted and sentenced for the kidnapping and murder of journalist Steven Sotloff, human rights activist Kayla Mueller and aid worker Peter Kassig. Elsheikj, who was captured in Syria in 2018 alongside fellow "Beatle" Alexanda Kotey, was described by prosecutors at his sentencing hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia as the most notorious, highest-ranking member of ISIS to face trial in the U.S. The

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