Net closes on British extremist butcher who murdered journalist James Foley



INVESTIGATORS believe they will soon identify the hooded barbaric British extremist, ‘John’, who beheaded US journalist James Foley.
Suspects, based on lists of UK nationals known to be among Islamic State fighters, are being assessed.
The executioner is one of three UK radicals dubbed The Beatles, reportedly responsible for overseeing more than 40 Western hostages held by militants in Iraq and Syria.
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World leaders yesterday continued to express their revulsion at the grotesque murder of Foley, 40, whose parents said he was a journalist dedicated to raising awareness of the suffering of ordinary Syrians in the war zone.
Britain’s Scotland Yard and MI5 and the US’s FBI are working to identify ‘John’.
Together with European counter-terror authorities they are trying to match profiles and voice recordings, including from telecommunications intercepts and Guantánamo Bay inmate records, with the recording of the killer.

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