The Eastern District of Virginia’s court sentenced one of the so-called ISIS “Beatles” to eight concurrent life imprisonment terms Friday for his role in a plot that beheaded American, British and Japanese hostages in Syria between 2014 and 2015.
El Shafee Elsheikh headed a group that held 26 hostages for periods from November 2012 through February 7, 2015, killing American, Syrian, Japanese, Russian and British hostages, according to the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. Attorney’s Office. He led Mohammed Emwazi, who decapitated two Brits and a Japanese citizen in videos ISIS released.
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