Twitter image of US journalist James Foley, who was abducted in Syria in 2012 and later beheaded. Picture: Twitter Source: Twitter
Tributes are flowing in for US Journalist James Foley, after he was beheaded at the hands of IS militants. US President Barack Obama and British PM David Cameron have condemned the killing.
A LONDON rapper and a former drug dealer, both of whom turned to extremist Islam, are among the UK's potential suspects for the execution of US journalist James Foley.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 23, the so-called 'hip-hop jihadist' from Maida Vale, west London, went to Syria last year and has tweeted a picture of himself holding up a severed head while Aine Davis, 30, from Hammersmith, west London, is a former drug dealer and gang member who joined the militants in Syria.
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Bary's father, who had been accused of having close ties to late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, faces a possible life prison sentence after being extradited to the US on charges regarding the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa.
Scotland Yard detectives and MI5 will look closely at the physical profiles of both Bary jnr, whose music at one stage featured on the BBC, and Davis in comparison with the shocking Foley execution video.
Bary jnr had used the Twitter name Terrorist and had also posted photos of himself in fatigues, hooded and brandishing a machine gun under the caption "soldier of Allah".
Video still of US journalist James Foley, who was beheaded by ISIS militants. Source: Supplied
Separate to the Foley murder investigation, Mohammed Junaid Thorne, 25, is a radical self-appointed Imam who has come to the attention of Australian security agencies after posting messages of support for Islamic State on Facebook and, while analysts say he is deliberately inflammatory, has told his followers Jew and Christian "pigs" were responsible for the rape of Muslim women.
He has praised Islamic fighters as "the ones who are on the front lines, in the battle fields, backing their words with actions".
It emerged yesterday that Foley's captors had sent the US a "laundry list" of demands including the release of a terrorist dubbed "Lady al Qaeda" and $142 million in ransom.
Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, is currently serving 86 years in a Texas jail for planning a "mass casualty attack' in the US, including infecting people with Ebola and planning a 'dirty' bomb detonation.
Meanwhile, an East London doctor who had faced kidnapping charges in Syria, is expected to be questioned by British authorities about any knowledge of IS hostage operations and the potential identity of Foley's killer.
Shajul Islam, 28, of Stratford, East London, was charged with kidnapping a British journalist, John Cantlie, in 2012 but his trial collapsed and the charges were withdrawn.
Islam's younger brother, Razul Islam, 21, has joined IS fighters and will also be assessed in relation to the British man named 'John' who featured in the Foley beheading footage.
Shajul Islam, who is now suspended from medical practice, has maintained his innocence of the kidnapping allegations, saying he had gone to Syria in a humanitarian capacity.
Captives, whose government had paid ransoms for their freedom, have stated John was among three British militants they dubbed 'The Beatles' because of their accents.
As UK, European and US security analysts continue to work comparing height, voice and eye records with the image of the man who executed Foley, it is understood British Prime Minister David Cameron has authorised a British special forces team to be on standby for any bid to capture the killer.
Former Secret Intelligence Service chief Richard Barratt told UK media he was confident Foley's executioner, who hid his face behind a hood in the video, would be identified by both security agencies and the English Islamic community.
"They will be able to identify him ... I think the community will be able recognise this person and I am sure many in the community will be keen to do so, the intelligence community certainly but also the community from which this man comes," Mr Barratt said.
"I don't think anyone is prepared to forget this sort of crime and therefore the long arm of justice will eventually catch him."
mark.dunn@news.com.au
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