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WASHINGTON Two British ISIS militants known as "The Beatles" are facing terrorism charges in the deaths of several hostages, including four Americans, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Officials said Alexanda Amon KoteyandEl Shafee Elsheikh, whom captives had referred to as the Beatles because of their British accents, and two other co-conspirators were involved in the kidnapping, torturing and killing of American, European and Japanese hostages from 2012 to 2016. The two are in FBI custody in the United States and are set to appearWednesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va. , just outside Washington, D. C. The two men grew up in the United Kingdom, where they became radicalized, authorities said. They left London in 2012 and traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group. "Todays announcement is a reminder of the threat that we continue to face from radical Islamic terrorists," Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said. "These terrorists despise the freedoms and way of life we cherish as Americans and are hell-bent to impose their ideologies on a world that continues to reject them. "The other co-conspirators were Mohammed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John, who was killed in an airstrike in 2015, and an unnamed British citizen who is incarcerated in Turkey. Among the American victims wereprint and video journalist James Foley, who was covering the war in Syria when he was captured; Steven Sotloff, a journalist who covered the Middle East and was reporting on the refugee crisis in Syria; Peter Kassig, a humanitarian aid worker; and Kayla Mueller, also a humanitarian worker. ISISs media center released videos in 2014 showing the beheadings of Foley, Sotloff and Kassig. Mueller was sexually abused by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the former ISIS leader who was killed during a U. S. -led raid in Syria in 2019. Authorities said Muellers family received an email from ISIS fighters in 2015 confirming her
