Member of ISIS ‘Beatles’ Cell Pleads Guilty in Hostage Cases in US Federal Court

By artappraiser on Fri, 09/03/2021 - 4:20am |

Breaking News: A member of an Islamic State cell that tortured and beheaded Western hostages pleaded guilty in a courtroom packed with the victims’ relatives. https://t.co/BKmI2ahTk5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 3, 2021

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/us/politics/isis-beatles-alexanda-kotey.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

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A terrorist has been shot dead by police after stabbing six people in what the Prime Minister has described as an "ISIS-inspired" terrorist attack at a West Auckland supermarket https://t.co/pOhkzn44ek
— Newsroom (@NewsroomNZ) September 3, 2021

NZ Police Commissioner says “terrorist” was under constant surveillance and had travelled from his home in Glen Eden the Lynn Mall, apparently to shop for groceries, and then carried out the attack with a knife he picked up in the store.
— Garth Bray (@GarthBray) September 3, 2021

The Prime Minister said he was being monitored so closely that "at the point that he visited the supermarket, he was being watched and followed."

"If we had reached a threshold for him to be in prison, he would have been in prison," she said. https://t.co/hcWDbwC2CQ
— RNZ (@radionz) September 3, 2021

edit to add Axios coverage:

UPDATE: NZ PM Jacinda Ardern said today's "ISIS-inspired" terrorist attack in Auckland was "carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity," but by someone "gripped by ideology that is not supported here by anyone"https://t.co/oV4TEdtXw7 axios
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) September 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/03/2021 - 4:46am

this guy sounds like a lovely fellow, wants to be in on everything; trial in France starts Weds.

Osama Krayem, born in Sweden to immigrants, has been identified as an ISIS member who burned a Jordanian pilot alive in a cage in Syria.
Also held in a 2016 Brussels attack and on trial for the 2015 Paris massacre of 130 persons
Machine translated fromhttps://t.co/9yHmrXAFeq
— Billy Joe Remarkable, Ockham's Salad Shooter (@Harry_Bergeron) September 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 09/07/2021 - 2:12pm

How Salim Rashid, a top student turned into Isis butcher

By Nation Africa via TheCitizen.co.tz, Sept. 8

Caption: Salim Rashid Mohamed. Photo | NMG
Nairobi. Salim Rashid Mohamed, an exemplary student, has shocked many after security agents identified him as one of the leaders of the international terror outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis).

Hopes for the second-born to become an icon in the family were dashed after he was recruited into terrorism about two years ago. Salim, 27, who was identified as a leader of Isis in a recent video, is being sought in Kenya after he jumped bail last year in a terror-related case.

Salim’s father, Mr Mohamed Rashid, has for the first time opened up about his son, saying, he was shocked to hear the news.

“I don’t know where my son is and what he is doing. I really feel bad about it,” said the anguished parent. Mr Rashid expressed his disappointment in his son.

“He was a bright boy. But what is the importance of his stellar performance? How is it helping anyone? It is like I don’t have any child by that name,” he said.

Armed with machetes

“We don’t know what he did. What I am aware of is the terrorism case facing him in court. He got good grades in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education [KCSE] exam, but look at him now and his life,” the distraught father added during an interview with the Nation.

The family says they do not know Salim’s whereabouts. His friends, neighbours and former schoolmates are shocked after seeing him in an undated video showing a person suspected to be Salim beheading an alleged Isis traitor. In the almost five-minutes-long video, the terrorists are seen with a machete shouting in Swahili and Arabic that traitors must be killed. They are all wearing military fatigues and armed with machetes and rifles.

Those who know him have little hope of ever seeing him again. His family is not only concerned about his whereabouts but also what could happen to him should he show up.

According to Mr Rashid, he was ready to educate his son to whatever level he wanted but he chose a different path, one that has now put the family under the watchful eye of the Anti-Terror Police Unit officers and security agencies.

“I sent him to Turkey to study computer engineering after scoring an A minus in the 2014 KCSE, but that did not work. Here we are today, with no information of his whereabouts,” he said. Those who knew him did not want to talk about him for fear of being tracked down by the police [....]

by artappraiser on Thu, 09/09/2021 - 2:55am

#Breaking France says head of #IslamicState in Sahara has been killed (from @AP) https://t.co/lGFHgomzHZ
— Carla Babb (@CarlaBabbVOA) September 16, 2021

Interesting that method and place secret:

....French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that al-Sahrawi “was neutralized by French forces” but gave no further details. It was not announced where al-Sahrawi was killed, though the Islamic State group is active along the border between Mali and Niger....

Macron protecting himself against accusations about mistakes and/or collateral damage, or Macron doesn't want the enemy to know how they did it?

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/15/2021 - 8:56pm

She wants to be a famous stoolie too, now, it's the new thing for those in UK who tried ISIS and have tired of it? And Syria, now there's the pits. She didn't behead or torture anyone, tho, thinking more like Mata Hari?

Basically, she left the UK to join ISIS and then later changed her mind. Now she's in Syria, but she wants to come back to the UK. She no longer has her citizenship, though. https://t.co/TWl4ysCaSJ
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 09/17/2021 - 1:18am

Member of ISIS ‘Beatles’ Cell Pleads Guilty in Hostage Cases in US Federal Court

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