ISIS 'Beatle' accused of murdering Americans found guilty on all charges
ABC News
El Shafee Elsheikh faces a life sentence following his conviction by a federal jury.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A federal jury found ISIS fighter El Shafee Elsheikh guilty on all counts of being part of a core group of British terrorists known as the "Beatles," who held hostage 26 westerners in a conspiracy that led to the murders of four Americans and at least two Britons.
The jury deliberated for less than a full day. Closing arguments came Wednesday and they were handed the case in the afternoon. By the time they finished lunch Thursday, they had reached a verdict.
"Elsheikh really incriminated himself," despite wearing a mask as he and the other Britons brutalized her son, said Diane Foley, mother of New Hampshire-raised journalist James W. Foley.
Humanitarian aid worker Kayla Mueller's dad Carl said justice was served, and added that he felt his daughter's presence throughout to trial.
