, aiming to secure convictions and punishments that can keep the men, in their 30s, imprisoned for life.“There was never a time when I thought we didn’t have any case,” said John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security. But, “we didn’t want to bring them here unless we had really good charges, a really strong case, and ultimately expected a conviction that was going to result in a very significant prison sentence.
An airstrike killed the group’s most notorious member, who had killed Foley and was known by the moniker of “Jihadi John.” Another was prosecuted in Turkey. Yet the U.K., which had stripped the men of their British citizenship, resisted doing the case in part over concerns about the ability to get convictions and significant prison sentences in British courts.
Still, the budding consensus in recent months was notable because the families had not always shared the same perspective of the case. Meanwhile, current and former FBI officials who were helping the families, including the head of the bureau’s hostage recovery cell, encouraged them to speak out in unison to prod the Trump administration toward prosecution. Ali Soufan, a former FBI counterterrorism agent who’d partnered with Mueller’s parents to investigate Kayla’s death, made the case that waiving the death penalty was essential for cooperating with the U.K. and even customary in international terrorism cases like this one.
_Politics There are well documented evidences that Wuhan Institute of Virology and other research organs in China were ordered to destroy virus samples and experiment records, in a cover up. The shanghai institute who first shared the virus gene to international community was shut down.
_Politics When we take a look at who benefited from covid, the lefties & CCP would be on top. Covid really changed the US & world politics. The Democrats and their MSM (NYT, WaPo, CNN,) lackeys took this once in a century opportunity to take down Trump. The virus was made in a CCP lab.
Good to see the US going after real criminals
'hostages' lol you mean mercenaries
These two are still alive?
. Idiots. .
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