3. El Shafee Elsheikh
This 27-year-old Londoner is known to have traveled to Syria in 2012, during which time experts believe he was radicalized and inducted into ISIS extremism. Elsheikh is a British citizen whose family escaped Sudan in the 1990’s, and is now recognized as the fourth jailer participants of the infamous ISIS group known as the “Beatles,” alongside Jihadi John, Aine Davis, and Alexanda Kotey.
He is known to keep in touch with much of his London-based family (with the exception of his mother), who claim that he is still alive and residing in Syria. His father works as a translator in London, and recalls his son’s radicalization as happening at a “lightning-fast” and uncontrollable pace. Now living in Aleppo, Elsheikh has been depicted in videos using blades for beheading procedures, waterboarding, beating, and other mechanisms used to inflict torture and pain.
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