(ALEXANDRIA, Va.) — A federal jury found ISIS fighter El Shafee Elsheikh guilty on all counts of being part of a core group of British terrorists known as the “Beatles,” who held hostage 26 westerners in a conspiracy that led to the murders of four […]
Mint Images/Getty Images(ALEXANDRIA, Va.) A federal jury found ISIS fighter El Shafee Elsheikh guilty on all counts of being part of a core group of British terrorists known as the "Beatles," who held hostage 26 westerners in a conspiracy that led to the murders of four Americans and at least two Britons. The jury deliberated for less than a full day. Closing arguments came Wednesday and they were handed the case in the afternoon. By the time they finished lunch Thursday, they had reached a verdict. "Elsheikh really incriminated himself," despite wearing a mask as he and the other Britons brutalized her son, said Diane Foley, mother of New Hampshire-raised journalist James W. Foley. Humanitarian aid worker Kayla Mueller's dad Carl said justice was served, and added that he felt his daughter's presence throughout the trial. "This is what the families asked for. And this is what we got. It's the American justice system at work at its best,"
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MIAMI A senior U.S. diplomat quietly traveled to Venezuela this week and met with imprisoned Americans as part of an ongoing effort to secure release of men the Biden administration believes are being held as bargaining chips by a top U.S. adversary, The Associated Press has learned.
MIAMI: A senior US diplomat quietly traveled to Venezuela this week and met with imprisoned Americans as part of an ongoing effort to secure release of men the Biden administration believes are being held as bargaining chips by a top US adversary, The Associated Press has learned. Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs and the government’s top