Charging the 'Beatles': Inside the case against IS militants

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The prosecution of two Islamic State militants nicknamed the 'Beatles' is a counterterrorism success for the Trump administration. It almost didn’t happen.

The pair also coordinated ransom demands, the indictment says. An email to the Foleys tauntingly told them the U.S. government treated them “like worthless insects.”

U.S. officials initially leaned toward a U.K. prosecution. British authorities had accumulated compelling evidence during their own investigation and U.S. policy encouraged other nations to repatriate and prosecute their citizens who’d joined IS. “You certainly can make an argument, and maybe it’s not even a close call, that capital punishment would have been appropriate given the horrific nature of this crime,” Terwilliger said. But, “getting justice for the victims was paramount to me.”That had long been Diane Foley’s position.

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.

 

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Throw them into a wood-chipper and be done with it.

fails to note that it really happened. Rather, AP chooses to attack the Trump administration. The glass is half full, not half empty.

I suppose some justice is better than no justice, but life in prison is too good for these guys.

Why on earth the beatles

Are you seriously talking up a traitor that attempted to steal democracy? Cause it looks like thats what u r doing.....for a traitor....who do ya work for

Many a molested goat will be glad these two are gone

Biden would have made them congressmen

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