US may have identified man in beheading videos

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI director says the U.S. believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the videos depicting the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker.

FBI Director James Comey told reporters at the bureau’s headquarters Thursday he would not reveal the man’s name or nationality.

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