Foley Executioner ID'd, Obama Preps for ISIS Speech
President Barack Obama is meeting with leaders Tuesday to outline a broader counterterrorism plan to combat Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists.
The president has said his new strategy will "degrade" and eventually "defeat" the terrorist group behind the recent murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
The new plan comes as intelligence officials say they've figured out the identity of the British ISIS terrorist who beheaded those Americans, whom they're calling "Jihadi John."
The British paper The Mirror reports an elite FBI team is preparing to capture some of his fellow Jihadists in Britain.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has not released any specific details of the president's strategy, but officials say the plan stops short of U.S. troops engaging in a ground war.
"The principal goal here is to make sure that people understand what the clear stake is for the American people and our nation in this ongoing violence that we're seeing in Iraq and Syria," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
Other administration officials also noted the strategy could take a long time to complete.
"Our global coordinated campaign with a global coordinated coalition will be built not just in a matter of days or weeks, but it will be built to endure for the months and perhaps even the years to come," Secretary of State John Kerry said.
