FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday that the intelligence bureau already knows the character of Jihadist John, the hooded man who had beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff, and British aid artisan David Haines.
However, he did not acknowledge to media the name or allegiance of the militant, although antecedent letters from British intelligence adumbrated he could be Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, a above British rapper.
Comey's adumbration is the latest in unhooding Jihadist John afterwards the British agent to the US said in August that UK was additionally abutting to anecdotic the belled decapitator.
To apperceive the character of the beheading suspect, US spy even M15 piloted by British aviators flew over Britain to adviser blast conversations and computer signals. The operations additionally helped analyze the bodies with whom the jihadists communicates. The technology could ascertain calefaction from a keyboard whenever a button is pressed. The signals and date are beatific to the US for analysis.
The technology could clue the computer countersign of Jihadist John because of the different calefaction signature it generates.
The Daily Mail sad that Jihadist John is from a South London suburb, about 10 afar from Central London. Another jihadist, articular as Junaid Hussian, has been tracked to Birmingham. Hussain is doubtable as actuality one of the jihadists called afterwards the accepted 1960s Brit boy bandage Beatles.
Authorities in Rome are additionally attractive for Federico Motka, an Italian who was hostaged calm with Haines, so he could advice affirm the character of Jihadist John. Motka was appear in May afterwards actuality captivated by the Islamic State (IS) for 14 months because of an declared acquittal by the Italian government of a €6 actor ransom.
The IS has threatened to annihilate Alan Henning, a British cab driver, while on, Wednesday, it dead French Herve Gourdel, captured in Algeria, as backfire from the French air raids in Iraq.
Read: Islamic State: Afterwards France Rejects Call To Stop Air Raids In Iraq, IS Beheads Frenchman Herve Gourdel
While the authorities are application voice-recognition technology to affirm who Jihadist John is, facial-recognition technology could additionally help, according to this video.
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