Rabat - Senior American and British intelligence officials said they have revealed the identity of the ISIS fighter responsible for murdering American journalist James Foley, according to the Sunday Times.
In a gruesome video uploaded to YouTube few days ago, a man dressed in black with a presumably British accent was shown beheading American freelance photojournalist James Foley in what appears to be retaliation for U.S. airstrikes targeting the strongholds of ISIS extremists in northern Iraq.
Based on Western intelligence accounts including British MI5 and MI6, the Sunday Times said the ISIS fighter has been identified as 23-year-old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a British born rapper from Egyptian descent, who left his family's lavish lifestyle in Maida Vale, west London last year in order to join the ranks of extremists fighting in Syria and Iraq under the umbrella of the Islamic State.
U.S. Intelligence sources this time quoted by Fox News said that the suspect's father, Adel Abdul Bary was "extradited from London to the United States in 2012 for his alleged connection to Osama Bin Laden and the 1998 U.S. Embassy in Africa." Dubbed as an "Islamic State fanatic whose Rap music has featured on BBC Radio 1 Extra, posting Twitter pictures of himself surrounded by bags of terrorists' favorite bomb material PETN, Majed Abdul Bary is believed to be a member of at least three other British-born ISIS fighters that form a group called The Beatles whose area of expertise is kidnapping Westerners and extortion.