BREAKING: Suspect Identified in James Foley Beheading Is Failed Rapper

[Galraedia]

Source: AlterNet

British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 have identified the man suspected of the horrific beheading of American journalist James Foley, according to British media reports.

The hooded man with an English accent is believed to be 23-year-old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, known to fellow Islamic State militants as Jihadi John.

The former rapper left his family home in an affluent west London suburb last year to fight in the civil war in Syria.

In early August he tweeted a photo of himself wearing military camouflage and a black hood, while holding a severed head in his left hand.

Read more: http://www.alternet.org/world/breaking-suspect-identified-james-foley-beheading-failed-rapper

[BillZBubb]

1. Abdel's life is pretty much over.

Hopefully, they catch up with him sooner rather than later.

[Historic NY]

3. SAS is on the case...

I wouldn't want to be found with him.

[flamingdem]

2. I'm not sure they're saying it's him yet

Personally I think he's too slim to be the man we see in the video.

[BeyondGeography]

4. He was always ready for that close-up

[LiberalArkie]

5. I would bet on it. No non wealthy makes a demand of 100 million euros.

maybe a million or so but a 100 million euros is someone who is used to being around or having real money. The voice print will tell the tale. He best make his peace with his maker. I would like to see him brought back for trial, but if they locate him and he is with a lot of fellow IS people, then light them up.

[Dustlawyer]

12. I am sure the NSA has reeks of recordings of him talking and rapping, rapping and talking.

More than enough to compare voice prints!
{ Sarcasm }

[muntrv]

6. Coming up on Fox Nooze: Rap music creates terrorism!

[flamingdem]

9. It will be implied!

[eggplant]

13. No, just *bad* rap music.

Oh wait, bad rap music *is* terrorism.

[7962]

15. No argument from me there

[Hawaii Hiker]

7. There's probably a drone looking for him right now

he gets to spend the rest of his life being on the run...

[cosmicone]

8. More public announcements and high-profile events

by political and religious leaders of Islam are needed to prevent the youth from going astray and joining the jihadi movements.

Instead, I have primarily witnessed very incendiary and passionate sermons about how Islam and muslims are victims and something (violent) needs to be done to correct those wrongs. It is like throwing a match on the gasoline of impressionable minds.

We know how a victim complex makes one kill and kill ruthlessly in the name of survival -- e.g. Israel.

Sadly, it deprives the perpetrators the very peace they are searching for.

[flamingdem]

10. Just realized that this rapper will be an excuse to bomb

in Syria.

They were looking for one..

[George II]

11. He should be bescrotumed before they behead him....but first remind him they ran out of virgins!

[C Moon]

14. I hope they catch him alive and throw him in prison for the rest of his life. Bastard!

[leftynyc]

19. That would mean

decades of his pals kidnapping people to demand his release. I hope they drop a hellfire missile on his ass.

[C Moon]

21. True.

[Rhinodawg]

22. Obviously...

He is a victim of western oppression by non-believing infidels who want to subjugate innocent shahids.

The Uk has many like him.











I just assume.lol

[LloydS of New London]

16. He won't be a "failed rapper" for long

I can see the lines forming at the music stores now.

[Regrell]

17. Most likely he'll be executed by his own cult.

They probably got this kid high on PCP or meth or whatever and made him prove how hardcore he is. He was probably selectively recruited for this.

Not that I feel sorry for this little monster, but let's face reality -- he's disposable, and the sadists pulling the strings are smarter than to have their faces or voices recorded.

[reorg]

18. the reporting on this person is beyond pathetic

I have not the slightest sympathy for jihadists, but there is no reason for this kind of lazy and prejudiced reporting when more information is easily and quickly available.

Life as the spouse of a suspected al-Qaida terrorist

Okay, so he joined this group and is participating in their murderous conquests, that's horrible. But WTF are these references to "affluent west London" are supposed to suggest? The family, a jobless mother with six children were living in a FLAT in public housing (council house - yeah, some look nice from outside) while the father was imprisoned without conviction since 1999.

The father is a human rights lawyer and obviously was involved in some way with Islamists in Egypt, but

The one concrete thing Abdel Bary is on trial for is possession of a fax announcing the embassy bombings – found in his office weeks afterwards. Such faxes were being distributed freely in places like outside the Regent's Park mosque, in central London, at the time, but it, along with Al Fadl's testimony on EIJ's supposed al-Qaida links, was enough for the US to conclude that Abdel Bary was involved.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/20/egypt-british-justice-adel-abdel-bary

Having been brought up by very conservative Muslims, in a large family with modest resources, the father in and out of prison since 1980 in Egypt, later accepted as a refugee in the early nineties in Britain but imprisoned again since 1999 and finally extradited in 2012 to the US - could it possibly be that this kind of personal history plays a role in the choices a young person makes?

[GOLGO 13]

20. Would love to see the SAS bring him in alive.

The most wanted man in both the US & UK brought in alive and to live out his life locked in a US prison. Yeah, that sounds right.