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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/another-islamic-state-jailer-who-held-western-hostages-identified-as-londoner/2016/02/06/a0f11d28-cc10-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html

Another Islamic State Jailer Identified as Londoner in 2009 Gaza Aid Convoy

(Washington Post) Adam Goldman and Souad Mekhennet - A second member of a British cohort within the Islamic State that oversaw the brutal detention and beheading of Western hostages in Syria, along with "Jihadi John," has been identified as Alexanda Kotey, 32, a convert to Islam who grew up in West London. Kotey traveled to Gaza in 2009 on the Viva Palestina aid convoy of 110 vehicles organized by George Galloway, then a member of the British Parliament.

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