Alexanda Kotey

2022 - 4 - 30

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Alexanda Kotey: IS 'Beatle' sentenced to life in US for murders in Syria (BBC News)

Alexanda Kotey, 38, pleaded guilty last September to the beheading of IS hostages in Syria.

"For the first time, you have no power over me and mine," he said. The two former Londoners were stripped of their British citizenship in 2018. Hostages said Kotey, El Shafee Elsheikh and Mohammed Emwazi were members of an IS cell they nicknamed "the Beatles" - after the band - because of their British accents. You have to do that." "No matter what you say this was not about religion. In the 25-page handwritten letter, Kotey said he took "full responsibility" for his actions and remains committed to meeting with the families of his victims, adding he is "optimistic" about any dialogue he might have with them.

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Isis 'Beatle' Alexanda Kotey sentenced to life in prison for role in ... (The Independent)

Kotey could be moved to a British jail after 15 years as part of a plea deal.

The prosecution team named Elsheikh, Kotey and Emwazi as the so-called “Beatles” cell, which was responsible for capturing, torturing and ultimately killing hostages. Kotey was sentenced at a courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday to life in prison on all eight counts, to be served concurrently. Kotey, 37, was part of a notorious terror cell known as the “Beatles” by their captives, along with three other British Isis members. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. I wake up during the night hearing my dad’s screams as he is being tortured by these men.” “No matter what you say this was not about religion.

ISIS 'Beatles' member Alexanda Kotey learns his fate for role in ... (New York Post)

A member of the notorious ISIS execution squad dubbed “The Beatles” was sentenced on Friday to life in prison over the brutal beheadings of American ...

We will find you,” the judge said of the US government. He is scheduled to be sentenced in August. “I will not hate you,” Kassig’s mother, Paula Kassig, told Kotey. “It would give sadness, pain and bitterness too much power over me.

British national Alexanda Kotey sentenced to life in prison over ... (CBS News)

The death penalty was not an option under the terms of the agreement that allowed Kotey and another man to be extradited to the U.S..

Kotey declined to speak at Friday's hearing, referencing instead a 25-page letter he wrote to the court in advance of sentencing. A third Beatle, Mohammed Emwazi, also known as "Jihadi John," who carried out the beheadings, was killed in a 2015 drone strike. The Islamic State said she was killed in a Jordanian air strike — the U.S. government believes she was killed by ISIS. His apparent indifference to the victims' words drew the ire of Sotloff's mother, Shirley Sotloff, who demanded Elsheikh look at her while she spoke. Kotey was specifically charged with conspiring in the kidnapping and deaths of four Americans: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig. Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were all beheaded. El Shafee Elsheikh, the second British national, will be formally sentenced in August and will also receive a life term.

Alexanda Kotey: ISIS 'Beatles' cell member sentenced to life in ... (CNN)

(CNN) A member of the ISIS terror cell nicknamed the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison on Friday by US District Judge T. S. Ellis in Alexandria, ...

"I will not hate you. "I often wonder, will I ever be happy? We will find you." ... Will I ever be normal again?" "We will look for you. "Open your eyes and look at me," Shirley Sotloff, the mother of American journalist Steven Sotloff, who was held hostage by the group and eventually executed on video, told Elsheikh, who sat across the courtroom.

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After a group of Europeans in their captivity were forced to witness the execution of the Syrian hostage, Kotey and his co-conspirators returned the hostages to the prison where they were being held with American and British hostages, court records detailed. “Years ago, Alexanda Kotey’s actions played out on the world stage,” Steven D’Antuono, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said in September 2021 after Kotey’s guilty plea. From November 2012 to February 2015, Kotey participated in the seizure, detention and hostage negotiations of those Americans, each of whom was killed while in ISIS custody. He, Elsheikh and another ISIS member supervised the terrorist organization’s jails, where Foley and others were taken hostage, and transferred those in their captivity between detention facilities. Known as Jim to his friends and family, Foley worked as a freelance text and video journalist in dangerous areas of the world. “Despite their horrific choices, Jim would want us to realize that they, too, have lost their families, loved ones, and their citizenship.”