<br/>The United States today blacklisted a surviving British member of the notorious Islamic State kidnapping cell popularly known as "The Beatles" as a global terrorist threat. <br/><br/>The State Department identified 33-year-old British Ghanaian jihadist Alexanda Amon Kotey as a member of the Islamic State unit that beheaded two dozen hostages in Syria.'<br/><br/>Among those murdered were three Americans ' journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.'<br/><br/>Some of the group's hostages were released and later revealed their captors spoke with British accents and were nicknamed The Beatles after the 1960s rock group by their mvictims.<br/><br/>The group leader and most notorious executioner, Mohamed Emwazi or "Jihadi John," was killed last year in a drone strike by the US-led coalition fighting the IS group. But, according to the State Department designation, London-born Kotey is still thought to be at large somewhere in or near the IS stronghold of Raqa, in eastern Syria.'<br/><br/>Kotey is also known by several aliases, including Abu Salih al-Britani. He was born in the Paddington district of London and holds British, Ghanaian and Greek Cypriot nationality.<br/>As a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," US citizens are forbidden from dealing with him and world law enforcement is informed that he "is actively engaged in terrorism." <br/>