James Comey, Director of US
Federal Bureau of Investigation, said he had identified the masked Islamic
State militant who was videotaped beheading Western hostages.
He said on Thursday night in
Washington that he was not revealing the man’s name or nationality.
The masked, black clad militant,
with a British accent, killed two American journalists, James Foley and Steven
Sotloff, and a British aid worker, David Haines, in videos released by the
terrorist group that controlled large swaths of Syria and Iraq.
Comey said from the footage, the
executioner appears to be left-handed and of average height and build.
The FBI director also said that more
than 100 Americans in total had either managed to reach Syria, had been
arrested while trying to travel there, or had gone and returned.
Comey indicated that terrorists in
Syria might still be plotting attacks on the West, and there was no sign yet
that US airstrikes this week had disrupted the group’s plans.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
said the “strategic blunders” of the West in the Middle East had turned the
region into a haven for terrorists and extremists.
He declared extremism a global issue and called
for a united world response to the scourge.
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