When the 'Beatles' of the Islamic State group ruled Syria's prisons

When the 'Beatles' of the Islamic State group ruled Syria's prisons

The shadow of the four executioners with British accents often loomed over the trial of the jailers and torturers of the Islamic State group, held this winter in Paris. One was killed in a US airstrike in Syria in 2015, and three others are imprisoned in the US and the UK.

Like many other creations of The Beatles, the track “Paperback Writer” came from an original idea of Paul McCartney, who was inspired by his fascination with pocket books and a Daily Mail article that he read about a aspiring writer. He told it in Many Years From Now, his co-written book with Barry Miles: “I had thought of a song and somehow had to do with the Daily Mail, so that morning they might publish an article about people writing pocket …