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ISIS jihadis who admitted involvement in captivity of aid worker spared death penalty so they can face trial

Aug 4, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“A British Supreme Court judgment in March ruled that it was unlawful for the UK to share evidence with Washington without seeking assurances that the pair, accused of beheading Westerners, will not face the death penalty.”

What about Kayla Mueller? Does she get any chance to be spared the death penalty?

Kotey and Elsheikh have admitted their involvement in her captivity. She was raped and murdered. Why do they need to face trial? It’s a useless drain of resources to establish what they have already admitted doing. But the primary concern of the government of shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain is their well-being. Must not offend the nation’s Muslim communities — that’s the top priority.

“British ISIS ‘Beatles’ who have admitted their involvement in the captivity of US aid worker Kayla Mueller ‘will be spared the death penalty so they can be brought to the US and face trial,'” by Ralph R. Ortega, Dailymail.com, July 31, 2020:

America is willing to drop the threat of the death penalty in order to put the British ‘ISIS Beatles’ on trial, it was reported last night.

El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to a four-man execution cell in Syria named after the band by their captives.

Elsheikh and Kotey have also admitted their involvement in holding American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was sexually abused and killed after she was held hostage for three years.

Both are currently in US custody in Iraq. Moves to take them to the States for trial have been stalled for months.

Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are accused of belonging to a four-man execution cell in Syria named after the band by their captives.

A British Supreme Court judgment in March ruled that it was unlawful for the UK to share evidence with Washington without seeking assurances that the pair, accused of beheading Westerners, will not face the death penalty.

That was not something the US was prepared to give. But the Washington Post last night reported a possible change in the situation.

Sources told the paper that US Attorney General Bill Barr discussed the move at the White House, hoping it would facilitate Britain’s sharing of crucial evidence.

The Pentagon has put pressure on the US Department of Justice to get the pair, both stripped of their British citizenships, out of Iraq and put on trial in America.

FBI agents were said to be in London while a federal prosecutor was in Iraq gathering more evidence on Kotey and Elsheikh.

Both have admitted being involved in holding American US aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was held hostage from 2015 to 2018, sexually abused and killed.

Kotey and Elsheikh had previously denied ever meeting the Mueller, but changed their story in interview tapes obtained by NBC News.

‘She was in a large room, it was dark, and she was alone, and… she was very scared,’ said Elsheikh, a member of the cruel execution squad dubbed the ‘Beatles’ because of their British accents.

‘I took an email from her myself,’ he admitted, meaning he got an email address ISIS could use to demand ransom from the family. Kotey said: ‘She was in a room by herself that no one would go in.’

ISIS reportedly demanded 5 million euros from Mueller’s family, telling them that that they would send ‘a picture of Kayla’s dead body’ if their demands were not met.

Mueller, an international aid worker, was abducted in Syria in 2013. During her captivity, she was raped by the former ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, US officials have said…

The family members of Kotey and Elsheikh’s victims, including Mueller’s parents Marsha and Carl, published an op-ed in the Washington Post calling for the duo to be brought to trial in America….

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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    It would be a shame if their plane had engine problems on the way to the U.S. and they had to bail out …. and their parachutes failed to open … maybe somewhere near the middle of the Atlantic. But it they do make it here maybe they could be kept at the same prison where Jeffrey Epstein was kept under suicide watch. I’ll bet they are pretty depressed and suicidal themselves. Yeah, suicidal; I’m certain of it. Both of them.

    • Gourdhead says

      Aug 5, 2020 at 4:26 pm

      Very good.

  2. Wellington says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 4:25 pm

    I refuse to let those against the death penalty have the moral high ground. I have long argued that NOT having the death penalty is a sign of moral weakness, cognitive confusion and maudlin sentimentalism, as well as danger to society at large.

    One of the things that bothers me most about those against the death penalty is that while those who are for it, such as me, are ready to admit to the possibility of, and take responsibility for, the execution of an innocent human being (though highly, highly unlikely now in the days of DNA evidence et al.), those against the death penalty are virtually completely silent when someone who should have been executed kills again, whether a fellow inmate, a prison guard, a nurse at the prison facility, after escape or parole, etc.

    So, I not only think those against the death penalty wrong, I also think the vast majority of such people are moral hypocrites. There, I’ve had my say.

    • Eva says

      Aug 4, 2020 at 5:54 pm

      I agree. The death penalty is an absolute must. It may not act as a deterrent, we are told, but it sure as hell makes sure they won’t do it again, which this filth absolutely will if given the chance, and it’s a damn sight cheaper than keeping them in prison.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 4, 2020 at 8:46 pm

      Wellington says,

      “I have long argued that NOT having the death penalty is a sign of moral weakness, cognitive confusion and maudlin sentimentalism, as well as danger to society at large.”

      Fully agree, very well stated.

    • Westman says

      Aug 4, 2020 at 10:45 pm

      I also agree, particularly in this case.

      England really isn’t England anymore….

      And the mourners are all singin’ as they drag you by your feet
      But the hangman isn’t hangin’ and they put you on the street

      You go back, Jack, do it again, wheels turinin’ ’round and ’round
      You go back, Jack, do it again

      • James Lincoln says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 9:02 am

        Yes, Westman,

        “Can’t Buy a Thrill”…

    • E T says

      Aug 5, 2020 at 3:46 pm

      I remember years ago during a political debate all candidates agreed they would support the death penalty if there were to be a “free vote in the house”. 87 percent of the people in the riding supported the death penalty. The Liberal won the election and when the “free vote” came up, he voted against capital punishment. When I questioned the narcissist later, why he had changed his mind, he told me I would have to trust his instincts, since being elected he had figured out what was the right thing to do. He was just another Liberal liar.

  3. Niemoller says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    So many native Brits have become Eloi, disgusting, helpless animals leading themselves to their own slaughter. I hate them. I hate the sound of their once cool accent. It sounds effete and dead now.

    • Eva says

      Aug 4, 2020 at 5:55 pm

      Not all of us are like that. Only the corrupt , cowardly verminous politicians, and the brain dead leftists.

      • Niemoller says

        Aug 4, 2020 at 7:57 pm

        I’m sorry, it doesn’t take all, not even a majority, just a critical mass to change a good stereotype to a bad one. I know there are a lot of good Brits, even immigrants who assimilate to Britain rather than demand Britain assimilate to them. The same goes for the USA. The humane rational world needs to mobilize to end the recrudescence of the cruel medieval Islamist perverts assaulting the world with their religion of hate.

  4. Niemoller says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 4:47 pm

    The ship of fools called Britain will destroy its small land and it will soon have a failed state with over 100 million humanoids crawling on each other, Morlock and Eloi, the hunter and the hunted.

    There is no Islam, there is only a vicious curmudgeon’s illiterate fairy tale dubbed “Islam.” Anyone with a decently functioning brain knows that, but islamobots don’t have control of their own brains, their cretinous imams control them.

  5. stressed eric says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    All jihadi muslem pigs should all be executed but not in a harsh way these animals killed their victims another that needs to be executed is that lying slave trader enforcer murderer bint Isis pinup girl Begum the Scum another lying Jihadi pig .One Question wonder if these animals would want to come back to the UK and other places if the ISIS animals still had their evil Caliphate which gullible country helped by the BLM scum and Soro’s rent a mob trying to establishing it here in UK ?? the time is coming for the new crusades

    • Eva says

      Aug 4, 2020 at 5:57 pm

      Why not in a harsh way? For the sake of justice it only seems right that they die much slower and harder than their victims.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 4, 2020 at 7:22 pm

        We don’t have to adopt the ways of barbarians in order to oppose barbarism.

        • Westman says

          Aug 5, 2020 at 2:26 am

          One would imagine that Baghdadi, like these two evil low-lifes, will face a judgement harsher than any we could apply. However, these “men” should never be freed for any reason.

  6. Eva says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 6:00 pm

    Of course, just because Washington gives the assurances, it has to keep them.
    The important thing is to get this garbage to a death penalty country.
    Once they’re there, who knows what might happen, and also, who cares?

  7. Keith O says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    If there was ever a convincing case for the methods of General Black Jack Pershing then these two are it.
    Televise their execution using bullets covered in pigs blood and then bury the bodies wrapped up in pig guts.
    Lets see how many willing martyrs there are after that!
    Yes, I know its brutal, but the sad truth is that when you are dealing with brutal people who have equally brutal beliefs, then methods must be used that will get through to them and make them reconsider their actions.

  8. gravenimage says

    Aug 4, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    ISIS jihadis who admitted involvement in captivity of aid worker spared death penalty so they can face trial
    …………………………

    If only Jihadists felt the same way–but they are fine with murdering aid workers…

  9. Mr John L Smith says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 5:35 am

    I can only apologise to US, our closest ally, for the insane PC lengths to which our courts and leaders will go to not to offend the ‘religion of peace’. These two scumbags hung drawn and quartered like in the good old days when governments saw their responsibility of protecting their citizens instead of placating the snowflake liberals and putting our lives at in doing so

  10. Linde Barrera says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 7:47 am

    These 2 Muslim criminal punks will face the 1 true God one day. Justice will be served when that happens.

  11. E T says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 3:50 pm

    These two might plead “diminished capacity”, if pictures do not lie.

  12. Gourdhead says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    Britain has lost it’s flaming mind.

  13. OLD GUY says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    If Britain so loves these two they should keep them and support them in prison for the rest of their lives. Execute them and save the money it cost to hold them for something worthwhile.

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