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Alexandria (Egypt) (AFP) – An Italian aid worker described being beaten with a rubber cable and waterboarded in harrowing testimony Thursday at the trial of a jihadist accused of being one of his Islamic State captors known as the “Beatles.” Federico Motka is the first former IS hostage to testify at the trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a former British national accused of the murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller. Elsheikh, the most high-profile IS member to face justice in the United States, is charged with hostage-taking, c…