ISIS ‘Beatle’ Faces Life Sentence for US Hostage Deaths
19th August 2022
A member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles,” is to be sentenced in a U.S. court Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.
El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison after being convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, in April of hostage-taking, conspiracy to murder US citizens and supporting a terrorist organization.
The grueling two-week trial of the former British national, which featured emotional testimony from former hostages and parents of the victims, was the most significant prosecution of an IS militant in the United States.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.