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Alexanda Kotey

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Age 40
Date of birth December 13,1983
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Westminster
London
United Kingdom
Other nameJihadi George
Known forIslamic State
Crimin statusUnited States Penitentiary, Canaan
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Alexanda Kotey Life story


Alexanda Amon Kotey, known as Jihadi George, is a former British citizen who in 2021 in a U.S. Federal Court pleaded guilty to "hostage-taking resulting in death and providing material support to the Islamic State group from 2012 through 2015".

Friend of 'IS Beatle' jailed for terrorism offences

Friend of 'IS Beatle' jailed for terrorism offences
Nov 13,2023 8:11 am

... In February 2012 Davis left the UK with Alexanda Kotey, another friend from the mosque, and two other men who later died as foreign fighters in Syria...

Alleged 'IS Beatle' Aine Davis pleads guilty to terrorism charges

Alleged 'IS Beatle' Aine Davis pleads guilty to terrorism charges
Oct 16,2023 8:21 am

... Two other members of the gang El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are serving life sentences in the US...

Alexanda Kotey: IS 'Beatle' sentenced to life in US for murders in Syria

Alexanda Kotey: IS 'Beatle' sentenced to life in US for murders in Syria
Apr 29,2022 8:25 pm

... Alexanda Kotey, 38, pleaded guilty last September to eight criminal charges relating to the abduction, torture and beheading of IS hostages in Syria...

El Shafee Elsheikh: Guilty verdict for Islamic State 'Beatle' jihadist

El Shafee Elsheikh: Guilty verdict for Islamic State 'Beatle' jihadist
Apr 14,2022 8:20 pm

... Elsheikh was the only one of the four militants to go on trial in the US, after Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty to his own charges last September...

Ex-hostage recounts ordeal at trial of Islamic State jihadist

Ex-hostage recounts ordeal at trial of Islamic State jihadist
Mar 31,2022 10:45 pm

... Two other members, Aine Davis and Alexanda Kotey, are being held in Turkey and the US, respectively...

IS prison break in Syria sparks days of clashes

IS prison break in Syria sparks days of clashes
Jan 23,2022 6:00 am

... In a prison interview with British jihadists, El Shafee ElSheikh and Alexanda Kotey, members of the so-called Beatles, the two men fantasised about being released from jail by a rubbish truck filled with explosives...

Turkey-Syria-offensive: Heavy fighting on the second day of the attack

Turkey-Syria-offensive: Heavy fighting on the second day of the attack
Feb 16,2020 7:01 am

... The two men, El Shafi Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, were part of a British cell of the nickname given to The Beatles...

British IS fighters taken into U. S. custody, says Trump

British IS fighters taken into U. S. custody, says Trump
Feb 16,2020 7:01 am

... El-Shafi Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey part of the Islamic state group cell that kidnapped and murdered Western hostages in Syria to be blamed...

British IS fighters taken into U. S. custody, says Trump

Feb 16,2020 7:00 am

Two of the so-called "Beatles", and were controlled from Syria in the "safe position by the United States," the President, Donald Trump has said.

El-Shafi Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey part of the Islamic state group cell that kidnapped and murdered Western hostages In Syria to be blamed.

The couple -from London - reports in the custody of The American military, according to the US media.

Mr Trump has described it as "the worst of the worst".

He said the decision had been taken to remove them from Syria, "to lose in the case of the Kurds or Turkey's control".

and say, the pair were removed running from a prison of Kurdish militias in Northern Syria.

The Announcement comes after the United States withdrawal of its forces from the region This Week .

On Wednesday, President Trump told reporters that you have transferred to US, "some of The Most dangerous fighter IS" in the midst of the fears, he was able to escape custody, as the Turkish troops in the Kurdish-held area in Northern Syria.

The Kurds -who have helped defeat IS In Syria , The Most important US fighters-allies in this Fight - Guard , thousands of IS and their families in prisons and camps in the territories under their control. It is unclear whether the fighting broke out, continue to do it now that.

the Other members of the cell - as "The Beatles " because of their British accents - including Mohammed Emwazi, known as " Jihadi John , who was killed in a U.S. Air Strike in 2015, and Aine Davis , imprisoned in Turkey.

Emwazi is thought to be U.S. journalist James Foley in 2014 have killed.

All four of them were radical in the UK prior to travelling to Syria. Elsheikh and Kotey have been deprived of their British citizenship.

The couple's State Department, what with the executions and "exceptionally cruel torture methods" including electric shocks, waterboarding and mock executions are referred to as terrorists by the US.

they had been told the prisoner by Kurdish forces in January 2018.

Mohammed Emwazi, Aine Davis , Alexanda Kotey and El Shafi Elsheikh (l to r)

The New York Times reports the US is planning to Elsheikh and Kotey to take to Virginia, where they will be brought to justice.

But said, shadow foreign Minister, Emily Thornberry , you should come "home to the justice bodies".

A Home Office spokesman said: "it would be inappropriate to comment while legal proceedings are in progress".

What is a Kurdish prison like?

Quentin Sommerville, BBC Middle East correspondent

The Kurds have only a purpose built, renovated prison. It is in Hassakeh, not far from the Turkish invasion. There, The Men shaved line are crammed nose to tail in orange jumpsuits, and skinny. There are 2,000 foreign fighters there, and held in unofficial prisons - former schools, and office buildings, low-safety - closer to The Front . Many thousands more Iraqi and Syrian ISIS supporters are also locked.

Despite the warnings from the Kurdish authorities that the Western countries have their jihadists repatriate, and some have obliged. The UK, the majority of his alleged their citizenship stripped, in The Hope of preventing their return.

The prisons were already overwhelmed before the Turkey, the Kurds attacked; now they are understaffed, as the Kurdish militia, prison guards sent to Fight at The Front . Western military and intelligence personnel already in the fields for fear of the encounter with the Turkey advance have left.

It is the danger of the Anti-terrorist crisis In Syria . It is an international coalition, and to the thousands of Arab and Kurdish life, IS fighters behind bars. The Group of super-charged growth 10 years ago, by the breaking of hundreds of people from the prison in Iraq. Many Fans believe that she was going to try it again.

It remains to be seen whether The Evidence against the pair amassed to be passed by British investigators, the full extent of the US authorities.

the Former Prime Minister , Theresa May , when she was at home, was Secretary in the year 2015, said Washington, the UK would only guarantee to hand over evidence of receipt of a categorical that neither people would be executed.

Britain has long been sought and obtained a death penalty assurances from the United States.

this position was repeated by Mrs May's successor, Amber Rudd , but then, conversely, after Sajid Javid entered the Home Office in April 2018.

Mr Javid decided to hand over 600 witness statements to try without any kind of guarantee that Elsheikh and Kotey would not die.

Elsheikh mother, Maha Elgizouli challenged, but the decision, in January,

The Problem is currently decided by the UK Supreme Court .



islamic state group, syria, united states

Source of news: bbc.com

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