FBI ‘plans to put two British members of ISIS ‘Beatles’ gang on trial in the US this summer’
Kotey, 35, and Elsheikh, 30, are being held by western-backed Kurdish forces in Syria and have been stripped of their British citizenship.
It is feared that the men could be freed from jail by ISIS supporters or let go by captors who are overstretched.
It is in the interest to have them extradited to the US quickly because ‘there are concerns they could be released by the Kurdish authorities in the wake of Trump’s decision to leave Syria’, an intelligence source told the Sunday Times.
The two men, who were nicknamed The Beatles by captives due to their British accents, are accused of killing 27 hostages, including British aid workers and American journalists.
Britain has so far refused to take any back, instead stripping them of citizenship to stop them returning.
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