The killer of U.S. journalist James Foley spoke with a British accent. Intelligence agencies want to have identified the Islamists as a 23-year-old British rapper. In his songs he sang about murder fantasies.

A British Rapper applies to British intelligence as the prime suspect in the search for the killers of U.S. journalist James Foley. The reported the British newspaper “Sunday Times” and cites unnamed senior government sources. The alleged perpetrator are assumed to act at the 23-year-old Abdel-Madsched A. from London.

The terror group “Islamic State” (IS) had the Foley journalists kidnapped in November 2012 in Syria. Early last week appeared a video that will show his assassination – in retaliation for U.S. air strikes in northern Iraq. In the video, a masked man was seen speaking with a British accent. Therefore British investigators were working on the identification of the man. Britain’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, initially confirmed only that one “on the verge” stand to identify the alleged killersFoleys. This would mainly rely on voice recognition technology.

Former Western hostages of IS believed to have recognized their British spies in the propaganda video, which they had given the nickname “John” because of his British accent. A total of three British had guarded the hostages and harassed, a trio that the hostages called “The Beatles” – consisting of “John”, “Ringo” and “Paul”.

Behind “John” Abdel-Madsched hides apparently A. He is the son of an Egyptian radicals and refugee who enjoyed political asylum in Britain since 1993. From London As father should have kept further contact with the terrorist network al-Qaeda. In 1998 he was arrested, according to the “Sunday Times” and delivered in 2012 after years of litigation in the United States. There he must answer for his possible involvement in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 in court now. About 220 people had been killed at that time.

Killed American Journalist James Foley:The suspect was rapping about murder fantasies

Abdel-Majid al. grows with his five siblings on his mother. He tried with some success as a rapper. His songs were even played in 2012 by the British public service radio. In one of his songs, “The Beginning”, the beginning, raps A. Abdel-Madsched to the music of the British band “The XX” about his drug past and his anger when his father was arrested. At that time he was six years old.

“Give me the pride and honor to my father. I swear, the day when she came to take my father, I had one, can kill two police officers,” he raps in the song which released in March of this year been. “I was only six. Malt you out of what I could do today with a gun.”

Recently, Abdel-Madsched A. had spread on Twitter a picture of himself on which he holds up a severed head, says the report. To this end he wrote “I chillin with my homie or what’s left of him.” His Twitter account has since been deactivated.

According to the British intelligence services about 20 British extremists decide per month for traveling to fight in Syria or Iraq. Overall, should be moved to Syria and Iraq, according to estimates some 500 British extremists.