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‘Jihadi John’
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The
British Islamic State militant who has featured in videos featuring the
execution of Western hostages, known as ‘Jihadi John’, has been identified. The
man is Mohammed Emwazi, a young British man from West London who was known to
British security services. Security
agencies did not disclose his name earlier due to operational reasons.
Emwazi
is thought to have killed American journalist James Foley in a video released
last August.
The story continues:
He
is further believed to have featured in the videos of the beheadings of US
journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British taxi driver
Alan Henning, and US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known as Peter.
Emwazi
is reported to have links with a former UK control order suspect who fled to
Somalia in 2006 and has alleged links to the funding of militant group Al
Shabab, which recently threatened to carry out terror attacks on London’s
Oxford Street.
He
is a computing graduate from Queen’s Park in West London, who traveled to Syria
in 2012 and later joined the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS).
One
of his friends told the Washington Post he had “no doubt” that “Mohammed is Jihadi John.”
“He
was like a brother to me … I am sure it is him. There was an extremely strong
resemblance. This is making me feel fairly certain that this is the same
person,” he
added.
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