Put the ISIS beheader ‘Beatles’ on trial at Guantanamo Bay

Published October 10, 2019 4:36pm ET



In a rare bit of good news from northern Syria, the United States has extricated two high-level ISIS prisoners from a Kurdish prison. The two men, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, should now face an unlawful combatant trial at Guantanamo Bay.

But we should first breathe a sigh of relief that the men are now secured. The chaos of Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria won’t lead to the escape of two of ISIS’s worst.

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