FBI Director: We’ve Identified the Man in ISIS Beheading Videos

The FBI gave everyone some good news yesterday: they have identified the man in those three videos ISIS put out showing the horrifying beheadings of two U.S. journalists and one British aid worker.

FBI Director James Comey said yesterday that they’ve identified the ISIS militant in the video showing the beheading of James Foley. And the FBI also believes it is the same person who appeared in the videos showing the beheadings of Steven Sotloff and David Haines.

British officials, as recently as last month, believed that a British rapper known as L Jinny may have been the one to kill Foley.

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