end of all military operations. a prominent critic of the president we ll be speaking to the human rights advocate, bianca jagger. a show of solidarity for salman rushdie authors gather in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was attacked. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state terror group, has been sentenced to life in prison, by a court in virginia. el shafee el sheikh, who s 3a, was among a group of british is members, who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria, and became known as the beatles, a name given to them by their captives. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. el shafee elsheikh had always described himself as a simple iis is but that wasn t true. a trial lasting two weeks here a part of a cell of the nicest beetles due to their english accents. isis beatles the group rain of terror left the world reeling in nara. he was convicted of his part in a hostage murder plot
they are now spending their lives somewhere they probably thought they would never end up, in a usjail. also among family members giving their reaction outside the court was carl mueller, father of kayla mueller, a humanitarian worker killed in syria. the punishment fits the crime in this case, absolutely. what he did to the americans and all the other hostages, he will spend the rest of his days in a cell in have the time to consider what is done. it s. it s a deterrent to others as well not to do this kind of thing. our security correspondent, frank gardner, told us about the significance of el shafee el sheikh. in the bigger scheme of things for isis is military battles completely insignificant. none of these british jihadists had any military experience whatsoever. they arrived in syria in the middle
completely agree with terms was sociopathic violence. they weren t looking to extract information for that what information can you get from someone who has turned up in syria as an aid worker orjournalist? these were military captives, they were innocent men who were simply trying to do theirjob. and these so called isis beatles just took out their statistic tendency on them forcing them to fight each other, electrocuting them, beating them, serving them, waterboarding them. doing horrific things to them. and the important thing is the relatives, the families of the victims at least two of them is said to me, we don t want them to be given the death penalty. this was before the trial, we want to see them have their day in court, have a fair trial, not to be shipped off to some
of somebody else s civil war with a completely warped version or vision of islam, some of it acquired in prison, having spent in early lifetime of petty crime and drug peddling. but they were useful to isis and propaganda terms. so isis leadership decided that they would give them free rain to look after these western captives and it raised a lot of money for them. so where is the british and us captives were pretty much doomed from the day they were in court. because britain and us do not pay terrace ransom. the europeans were released one by one, reportedly for huge ransom. although no government has ever admitted to this but they of course survived, went back home, told their stories and give evidence to investigators, including british detectives. these guys were just meeting out
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