British Rapper Abde Majed Abdel Bary ID’d as ISIS Killer of James Foley

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British Rapper Abde Majed Abdel Bary ID’d as ISIS Killer of James Foley

 

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, August 24, 2014, 8:59 AM

 

 

Before and After: 23 year-old London rapper Abde Majed Abdel Bary traveled to Syria in 2013 to join ISIS.

Authorities say Bary has a similar accent to the man who beheaded US journalist James Foley.

British rapper Abde Majed Abdel Bary has been identified as the killer of American journalist James Foley. Video of Foley’s beheading was released by ISIS last week.
FOX News reported:American and British intelligence officials are eyeing a British-born rapper as the militant who beheaded journalist James Foley.

A senior Western intelligence official told Fox News that 23-year-old London rapper Abde Majed Abdel Bary is the suspect believed to be Foley’s executioner.

U.S. intelligence officials are not commenting publicly on the reports, but a well-placed source told Fox News that Bary’s Egyptian-born father was extradited from London to the United States in 2012 for his alleged connection to Usama bin Laden and the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa.

Bary traveled to Syria last year to fight with ISIS, the source said.

The 

Sunday Times

 and 

Sunday People

 identified Bary as a member of a group of at least three British-born ISIS fighters known among former hostages as “The Beatles.”

The Sunday Times reported that MI5 and MI6, Britain’s two major intelligence agencies, had identified the man who did the brutal deed, though he had not been publicly identified.

A counterterrorism source told Fox News that the investigation was moving forward and slowly eliminating individuals of interest. The source also told Fox News that the FBI had opened a crisis file shortly after Foley was kidnapped in northern Syria in November 2012 that included signals intelligence and interviews with former hostages.

 

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From August 13th:

 

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-jihadi-poses-with-severed-head-chillin-with-my-homie-or-whats-left-of-him

 

UK jihadi poses with severed head: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him”  

Aug 13, 2014 at 2:09pm 

A British rapper who travelled to Syria to fight for ISIS has posted a photograph on Twitter showing himself posing with a severed head.

The sickening image was taken in the city of Raqqa – the capital of ISIS’ self-declared caliphate – and uploaded to the social media site along with the caption ‘Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left of him.’

The photograph shows masked former rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, holding the decapitated head while standing in Raqqa’s central square – the same location where the seven-year-old son of Australian jihadist Khaled Sharrouf was seen holding a different severed head earlier this week.

The shocking image of Bary emerged as ISIS militants seized a number of key towns and villages close to Syria’s northern border with Turkey.

As well as posing for an image himself, Bary – whose Twitter account has since been deleted – uploaded other shocking photographs of severed heads displayed on railings in the square.

Alongside one image, he posted the words: ‘It’s beautiful when you see Allah’s laws implemented.

The disturbing photographs come just days after convicted Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf uploaded an image of his seven-year-old son standing in the same spot holding a decapitated head.

That image – which was captioned ‘ That’s my boy’ – received worldwide condemnation from political leaders, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Bary, meanwhile, is a former rapper who once had his music played on Radio One.

He is understood to have walked out of his family’s £1million home in Maida Vale, west London, last year to join ISIS, telling them he was ‘leaving everything for the sake of Allah’.

Friends said Bary – an aspiring rapper on the ‘grime’ music scene – grew increasingly radical and violent after mixing with thugs linked to hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

He has posted a series of photographs online, including shots of him masked and posing with guns under the title ‘soldier of Allah’.

In other messages he called on Allah to ‘grant us martyrdom’, and praised Osama Bin Laden. Bary, whose music has featured on Radio 1, is one of six children of Adel Abdul Bary, 53.

Bary Snr was extradited from Britain to the US in 2011 after an eight-year legal battle that made him a cause celebre of the Left as lawyers took his publicly funded case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Investigators believe Bary Snr was one of Bin Laden’s closest lieutenants in the infancy of Al Qaeda and ran a London cell of the terror network.

He faces life in prison if convicted of involvement in the bombings of US embassies in East Africa in 1998.

His son’s appearance among the ranks of UK jihadists in Syria, where several Britons fighting for the militants have already been killed, will add to concerns about their potential threat to the West.

The image emerged as ISIS militants seized a number of key towns and villages close to the Syrian border with Turkey.

Deadly clashes between rebel groups saw ISIS forces take control of Akhtarin and Turkmanbareh in the Aleppo countryside earlier this morning, according to Syrian opposition activists.

The ISIS militants also took control of three nearby areas – dislodging rebels troops who had held the stretch of north west Syria, having earlier seized it from President Bashar Assad’s forces.

The towns are the latest prize for the ISIS militants, who have carved out a self-styled caliphate across vast swaths of eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq.

The towns’ takeover was reported by several activists, jihadists affiliated with ISIS on social media, and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The news comes as Egypt’s top cleric branded ISIS a ‘terrorist’ group that poses a danger to all Muslims and to the Islamic religion itself.

Grand Mufti Shawki Allam, Egypt’s highest religious authority, said the extremist group is ‘violating all the Islamic principles and the intentions of the Shariah [islamic law].’

In remarks carried by Egypt’s state news agency late last night, Allam also said the ‘bloody extremist group’ had tarnished the image of Islam and paved the way for the destruction of Muslim nations….