2 notorious British IS members say fair trial is impossible - Sensationalist Headlines

KOBANI, Syria (AP) — Two British members of the Islamic State group believed to have belonged to a cell notorious for beheading hostages in northern Syria said Friday that their home country’s revoking of their citizenship denies them the possibility of fair trial. One of them said the killings of captives was “regrettable” and could have been avoided. The men were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up the IS cell nicknamed “The Beatles” by surviving captives because of their English accents. The cell became known for its brutality, holding in captivity more than 20 Western hostages, and torturing and killing several, including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers, in 2014 and 2015. The two men, El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Amon Kotey, spoke to The Associated Press from their detention Friday in northern Syria in their first interview with the media. They were captured in early January in eastern Syria by the Kurdish-led U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces amid the collapse of IS. Though they spoke of their membership in the Islamic State group, they did not admit to belonging to the cell or to have been involved in any of the kidnappings or killings. Elsheikh called the allegations “propaganda.” Asked about the beheadings of American journalist James Foley and other victims, Kotey said many in IS “would have disagreed” with the killings “on the grounds that there is probably more benefit in them being political prisoners.” “As for my position, I didn’t see any benefit. It was something that was regrettable,” he added. He also blamed Western governments for failing to negotiate, noting that some hostages were released for ransoms. The leader of the cell, Mohammed Emwazi, was dubbed “Jihadi John” in the British media after he appeared, masked, in a string of videos showing beheadings of the hostages. He was killed in a U.S.-led coalition drone strike in 2015 in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto IS capital. Another member, Aine Lesley Davis, was arrested in Turkey and convicted there in 2017, sentenced to seven years in prison. Elsheikh, whose family came to Britain from Sudan when he was a child, was a mechanic from White City in west London. Kotey, who is of Ghanaian and Greek-Cypriot descent and converted to Islam in his 20s, is from London’s Paddington neighborhood. Both have been interrogated by U.S. officials since their capture. Elsheikh traveled to Syria in 2012, initially joining al-Qaida’s branch before moving on to IS, according to the U.S. State Department’s listing of the two men for terrorism sanctions. It said he “earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions and crucifixions while serving as an (IS) jailer.” Kotey served as a guard for the execution cell and “likely engaged in the group’s executions and exceptionally cruel torture methods, including electronic shock and waterboarding,” the State Department said. https://apnews.com/d3ca538ec82e4a04bdfe9031e1f8346a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Oh boo hoo.

I don't think the people who got executed by ISIS got any sort of fair treatment.

They should consider themselves lucky they got the opportunity to have a trial given what they've done. You reap what you sow, you twats. Putting them on trial in the Hague would be a good way to spite these neanderthals though.

Doesn't mean they don't get a fair trial, we don't stoop to their level. Regardless, the Syrians won't take it easy on them and they are lucky they've survived this far due to their accents. I'm absolutely fine with the UK turning our backs on them.

"You, who are without mercy, now plead for it? I thought you were made of sterner stuff" -Optimus Prime

You know what else gets in the way of a fair trial? Pledging yourself to an antagonistic state, who's sole stated function is to destroy all other states and conquor non islamic peoples, to establish a global caliphate under islam. Joining ISIS is literally an act of treason, and a knowing and willful declaration of active antagonism against the very existance your home country, let alone it's sovereignty and well-being. Why you would expect not only to retain your citizenship to that country, but expect to return home to face a "fair trial" is hypocrisy and entitlement beyond measure.

*Right before Optimus gets cockblocked by Hotrod and then gets blown apart by Megatron* So who's going to play the role of Hotrod in court?

A fair trail would be dumping you back in the desert to get Paveway guided up your arse.

"so here I am decapitating people just because they don't bend to my will or are filthy infidels, when suddenly I get caught and imprisoned, and get this, I'm going to trial now for that shit and I'm most likely gonna lose! What a lawless world!"

Whatever they recieve as justice is probably less than they deserve. I'm not sure there is a lower point than the one they're at. I wouldn't shed a tear if whatever methods they employed ended up being used on them.

Probably the UN.