A friend of US hostage Steven Sotloff, who was murdered by Islamic State militants, says that family take some comfort from having a name for the “masked face they have seen in their nightmares”.
Speaking to Channel 4 News, Barak Barfi – a friend of Steven Sotloff, the US hostage murdered by IS in September – said: “We are very confident that the American justice system, its intelligence community and its law enforcement issues, will bring this man to justice and he will serve the rest of his life in an American prison.”
Sotloff was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, in 2013 and held captive by militants. In September 2014, the group released a beheading video.
Mr Barfi added: “Isis controls large parts of Iraq and Syria. They still have several western hostages. We do not know where these men are, but Isis will not exist forever.
“We believe Isis’ end will come soon, and when that happens people like Mohammed Emwazi will have nowhere to run.”