ISIS 'Beatles' forced hostages to sing song named 'Welcome To Lovely Hotel Osama'

A former Islamic State hostage has told how British captive John Cantlie and his now murdered American friend Jim Foley were forced to compose a song called “Welcome To Lovely Hotel Osama”.

The sick torture enforced on Mr Cantlie and Mr Foley - who was later beheaded- is just one of the appalling examples of sadism imposed on hostages by British Islamic State terrorists.

Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa - who was released by ISIS - was held captive by the extremist group in its stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria, along with other several other Western hostages.

Mr Espinosa was held for much of this time by a trio of British Islamist guards who were nicknamed ‘The Beatles’ by their captives, because they were British.

They included the knife murderer Mohamed Emwazi - AKA “Jihadi John”.

And he has revealed how the IS captors forced Cantlie and Foley to write the Hotel Osama song, and within it mention Ken Bigley - the British hostage beheaded by al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004.

Bigley was killed by the Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda which was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is looked upon as the founder of the terror group that later became Islamic State.

Mr Espinosa recalled that one of the “Beatles” who was dubbed by fellow captives “George” was particularly fond of the song, which was based on the Eagles’ “Hotel California.”

Espinosa recalled: “George shouted: ‘Anyone who does not know the words I will kick to death.”

The Spanish reporter recalled: “Any hope of peace ended when the Beatles decided to install themselves in the adjoining room.

“From then on, the prisoners became their own ‘toys’,” he wrote.

“Often when the sun set, they started hitting the ‘chosen one’ or they showed them off in front of their friends as if we were animals in a zoo.

“On a couple of occasions, they and their acolytes amused themselves by shooting pellet guns at us. Fortunately, they were not good shots.

“They were like naughty boys without any feelings, and without any military experience.”

Mr Espinosa claims Mr Cantlie and Mr Foley made two failed attempts at escaping, earning them weeks of punishments that included attempted drownings and repeated beatings.

He said: “They were caught trying to get off their handcuffs with a skeleton key they made. On the second occasion, the American showed his true humanity.

“After getting out of the room where the prisoners were, he had to wait for Cantlie who was to escape second.

“The guard saw that Cantlie (had freed himself) and Foley could have tried to escape on his own, but gave himself up. Foley said: ‘I couldn’t leave John (Cantlie) on his own.'”

Mr Foley was later beheaded by Jihadi John in August last year.

The full words to the song are:

“Welcome to lovely Hotel Osama.

“Such a lovely place.

“Such a lovely place.

“Plenty of room at lovely Hotel Osama.

“Any time of year.

“You can find it here.

“Welcome to the lovely Hotel Osama.

“Such a lovely place.

“Such a lovely place.

“And if you try, and if you try.

“You will die Mr Bigley’s style.”