The British ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday that intelligence officials are "close" to identifying the man with an apparent British accent who beheaded American journalist James Foley in a video released by ISIS militants earlier in the week.
"We're not in a position to say exactly who this is," said Sir Peter Westmacott on NBC's "Meet the Press," but "I think we are close.” Westmacott said "sophisticated" voice recognition technology was being used to identify the man who appeared in the video, but he also stressed that the threat of British nationals in ISIS goes beyond one killer.
"It’s not just about one brutal murderer," Westmacott said. British intelligence estimates that about 500 Britons have joined ISIS, meaning they have the means to return to Britain or fly to America with few hindrances. "It is a threat to our citizens," Westmacott said.
A U.S. Department of Justice official told NBC News that investigators were using “all of the tools at our disposal” to hold Foley’s killers “accountable,” but the official would not say whether or not any suspects had been identified.”
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— Elisha Fieldstadt
First published August 24 2014, 7:02 AM
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