ABC News – The FBI knows the identity of the masked, English-speaking ISIS militant who has been videotaped apparently murdering American hostages, and he is likely from somewhere in North America, FBI Director James Comey said today.

Comey declined to reveal the name of the man, who top U.K. officials previously have saidappeared to be British. Comey told ABC News the FBI and international partners were able to identity him.

In several ISIS videos in which Western hostages appear to be beheaded, an armed militant — possibly the same man every time — stands beside them and delivers statements against Western actions against ISIS in Iraq. Then he takes his knife to their throats.

American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker David Haines were all killed in a similarly public, brutal fashion. The life of another British citizen, Alan Henning, was threatened in the last video.

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ISIS has been wreaking havoc as it captures large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, and the American military now has the group in its sights amid a sustained, U.S.-involved bombing campaign in Syria. In addition the group’s capabilities in that region, U.S. officials have expressed concern over the group’s “very slick media campaign” pushing out propaganda online and using social media to encourage people around the world to launch attacks in their homelands.

Part of that media campaign is a recent series of propaganda videos, including two showing the beheadings of Foley and Sotloff.

The latest video released by ISIS earlier this week, titled “Flames of War,” is narrated by another man speaking perfect English, but “there is no doubt [he] is speaking North American-accented English,” Comey said. And investigating him further “is a big focus of ours,” Comey said.

Comey also spoke today about the Khorasan Group, another target of U.S. airstrikes this week in Syria. The little-known group was “nearing the execution phase for an attack in Europe or the homeland,” U.S. officials have said. And the group was working to produce “creative” new designs for bombs that could be smuggled onto U.S.- or Europe-bound flights, sources have said.

“That group was at the top of my list of things that I worry about … [because] it is a collection of very bad and experienced terrorists, operating in a safe haven, into which we don’t have complete visibility,” Comey said today.

Due to that “limited visibility,” it’s hard to say whether their attack would come “tomorrow, three weeks from now or three months from now,” he said. “But it’s the kind of threat you have to operate under the assumption that it is tomorrow.”

In a one-on-one conversation with ABC News’ Pierre Thomas just hours after his pending resignation was announced, Attorney General Eric Holder said there’s no doubt Khorasan is “a real threat.”

“Trust me, those of us who have been in the situation room, we have been following them. … [And] we know what their capabilities are,” Holder said.

As for how effective the airstrikes were against Khorasan, Holder said, “Until we know that their capabilities have been very, very degraded, that key people have been eliminated,” authorities have to assume that the group remains a threat.

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Source : ABC News

Inquisitr reports that Princess Diana was reportedly pregnant at the time of her fatal car crash, a fact that sources say was covered up for years after here death.

There have been past rumors of a pregnancy for Princess Di, and in this week’s issue of Globe magazine, a source claimed that she was indeed pregnant with boyfriend Dody Fayed’s baby when she died in 1997.

The report follows up past rumors that Princess Diana was carrying her third child at the time of her death. Last year, a doctor in Paris who treated Princess Di after her accident said he saw a six- to 10-week-old fetus. In a book called The Princess Diana Conspiracy, radiologist Dr. Elizabeth Dion and a nurse both claimed to have seen the unborn baby.

The book’s author, Alan Power, claims that Diana’s body was then hastily and illegally embalmed to cover up the pregnancy.

Princess Diana was killed along with Fayed in a car crash in Paris in August of that year, an accident that remains the subject of much controversy. Many, including Fayed’s own father, believe that the crash was orchestrated by British intelligence forces to prevent her from marrying a Muslim man.

Earlier this year, the British government released a heavily redacted official report on her death, one that created even more conspiracy theories.

Al Fayed, Egyptian billionaire and Dodi’s father, said he believes his son’s religious background was the reason he was killed.

“This is not an accident,” he reportedly said shortly after learning of the crash. “It is a plot, an assassination.”

Alan Power also believes the crash that killed Diana was no accident.

“It established a motive for murder and explained Diana’s illegal and speedy embalming,” he said. If it’s true that Princess Diana was pregnant at the time of her death, that would likely add even more fuel to the conspiracy theories about her fatal crash.

Source : Inquisitr