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10 October 2019 Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, on the field 'Jihadi Ringo' and 'Jihadi George': they are the two British ISIS members that the US military has taken into custody in the last hours. The two were in jails controlled by the Kurds in the north-east of Syria, the territory that was the scene of the Turkish offensive. According to an American source, there is a plan to bring the two to the United States to try them, but they could be transferred to Iraq immediately. It was the American president himself, Donald Trump, who announced that the US had taken into custody "some of the most dangerous ISIS fighters". There are about forty men, considered among the most heinous jihadists who were dispersed in various prisons under the control of the Kurds. But Kurds have withdrawn personnel from these detention centers to focus on the war front. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh were two of the so-called "Beatles", named for their accent: they were part of an ISIS cell that brutally tortured and killed about twenty Western hostages. Among their victims the American journalist James Foley, beheaded in a video propaganda of ISIS in August 2014, another US journalist, Steven Sotloff, the American aid worker, Peter Kassig. The cell also included Mohammed Emwazi, better known as 'Jihadi John', the one who would be beheaded by Foley and killed in a drone attack. Kotey is accused by the US State Department of carrying out group executions and "exceptionally cruel torture" of Western journalists and humanitarian workers. Elsheikh had instead earned a reputation for waterboarding and crucifixions.