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The unnamed former captive, held hostage for a year in Syria, identified the English speaking militant seen in the video in an interview with the Guardian saying he was educated and a devout follower of radical Islamic teaching.The killer became the subject of an international manhunt after video showing him beheading kidnapped journalist James Foley surfaced this week.The militant, cloaked in black with only his eyes visible, is said to have been the main negotiator in talks thatpatagonia vest review led to the release of nearly a dozen hostages held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS) earlier this year, sources told the Guardian.Police and intelligence services in Britain and the United States have a plethora of clues as they scramble to identify him, from image analysis and voice recognition software to social media postings and testimony from former captives.British Prime Minister David Cameron has said the masked jihadi pictured holding a knife to Foley s throat is likely British, and linguists say his accent suggests he is from the London area.Britain s Metropolitan Police is involved in the hunt for him, as are British intelligence agencies and the FBI.A French journalist, helpatagonia backcountry guide pants reviewd by ISIS militants along with Foley until he was freed in April, said he had a rough idea who the man in the video is. But Didier Franois did not speak patagonia at bass pro shop3of his time with the other hostages, telling Europe 1 radio the jihadists ordered him not to publicize details of his captivity, the Telegraph reported.If he did, he was told his fellow hostages would be punished. Peter Neumann, director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King s College London, said it was likely Foley s behpatagonia at bass pro shopeading had taken place in Raqqa, a stronghold of the Islamic State militant group and the base for many of its foreign fighters.He saidiscount patagonia ski jacketsd investigators would use basic detective techniques to narrow down the field of suspects before turning tpatagonia jacket h2no military green apple men's sz xs rare hoody torrentshello voice recognition software and other sophisticated technology.Neumann said most of the hundreds of Western militants in Syria patagonia outlet store mehave Facebook or Twipatagonia outlet store queenstter apatagonia outlet store salesccounts, on which they post pictures of themselves and give away other clues to their origins, such as a favourite soccer team. Just because they are Islamic extremists and behead people doesn t meant they don t talk about football clubs, he said.Neumann said online photos could be analyzed to determine height, weight, eye colour and other information.He said tpatagonia at bass pro shop1hat even though the militants, most in their teens and 20s, know they should be careful, they are so ingrained in online culture that they let their guard down. These are all young gpatagonia at bass pro shop2uys, he said. It s a habit. It s very hard for them to be disciplined. Language experts say the masked killer sounds like a man in his 20s who was raised or educated in Britain. John O Regan, a linguist at the University of London s Institute of Education, said the militant spoke with a multicultural London Englispatagonia everlong review toyotah accent but with more formal standard English pronunciation, suggesting that his words denouncing American actions in the Middle East had been carefully scripted. The person is taking great care to discount patagonia fly fishing geardo posh talk, as it were, O Regan said. They re very mindful of their p s and q s. He said that even though the speech differs from the man s normal speaking voice, there are enough features in the accent to provide strong clues to his identity.British spy agencies have access to voice recognition technology that can try to match features of the killer s voice to a pre existing recording, such as an online video or intercepted phone call.So called voiceprinpatagonia at bass pro shop0ting isn t perfect voices can change over time and the technology isn t as reliable as fingerprinting or DNA. But Western counter terrorism officials have long made use of it including in Britain, where surveillance aircraft have flown over cities in a bid to match recordings of terrorist suspects against live phone conversations.
