‘Jihadi John’: Islamic State killer is identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi

[Mr.Kickass]

LONDON — The world knows him as “Jihadi John,” the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos circulated widely online.

But his real name, according to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. He is believed to have traveled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined the Islamic State, the group whose barbarity he has come to symbolize.

“I have no doubt that Mohammed is Jihadi John,” said one of Emwazi’s close friends who identified him in an interview with The Washington Post. “He was like a brother to me. . . . I am sure it is him.”

A representative of a British human rights group who had been in contact with Emwazi before he left for Syria also said he believed Emwazi was Jihadi John, a moniker given to him by some of the hostages he once held.

“There was an extremely strong resemblance,” Asim Qureshi, research director at the rights group, CAGE, said when shown one of the videos and asked to confirm whether Emwazi could be “Jihadi John.”

“This is making me feel fairly certain that this is the same person,” Qureshi added.

Authorities have used a variety of investigative techniques, including voice analysis and interviews with former hostages, to try to identify Jihadi John. James B. Comey, the director of the FBI, said in September — only a month after the Briton was seen in a video killing American journalist James Foley — that officials believed they had succeeded.

Nevertheless, the identity of Jihadi John has remained shrouded in secrecy. Since Foley’s killing, he has appeared in a series of videos documenting the gruesome killings of other hostages, including four other Westerners, some of whom he personally beheaded.

In each, he is dressed in all black, a balaclava covering all but his eyes and the ridge of his nose. He wears a holster under his left arm.

A spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Washington said: “Our prime minister has been clear that we want all those who have committed murder on behalf of ISIL to face justice for the appalling acts carried out. There is an ongoing police investigation into the murder of hostages by ISIL in Syria. It is not appropriate for the government to comment on any part of it while this continues.” ISIL is another name for the Islamic State.

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U.S. officials declined to comment for this report. Emwazi’s family declined a request for an interview, citing legal advice.

The Kuwaiti-born Emwazi, in his mid-20s, appears to have left little trail on social media or elsewhere online. Those who knew him say he was polite and had a penchant for wearing stylish clothes while adhering to the tenets of his Islamic faith. He had a beard and was mindful of making eye contact with women, friends said.

He was raised in a middle-class neighborhood in London and on occasion prayed at a mosque in Greenwich.

The friends, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation, believe that Emwazi started to radicalize after a planned safari in Tanzania following his graduation from the University of Westminster.

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Elsewhere (Guess where ? Yup, Britain itself), somebody feels 'extremely' touched by 'Jihadi John'

Mohammed Emwazi is 'extremely gentle', says British advocacy group Cage director | Telegraph

 

[GhorMaanas]

We have thousand potential jihadis on UK radar, warns ex-MI6 chief | Daily Mail Online

Nauseating! An odious press conference, apologists for terror and the do-gooders who fund them | Daily Mail Online

i don't understand what the hard-left finds so 'beautiful' in radical islam to always side with it in a 'made for each other' fashion, esp. so in democratic countries (including India)! Britain and US are getting whackier day-by-day. ultra liberalists and leftists in Britain are bent on seeing destruction happen in some perverted sense of 'freedom', while otherwise seemingly normal people are suddenly turning psychopaths one fine day and killing others in US, like this recent door-to-door shooting rampage in Missouri!

 

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World needs peace not WAR.

 

[GhorMaanas]

yes but this warped world WANTS war.

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read another news bit - a former-classmate of emwazi says that this psycho had once hit his head against a goalpost, and from thereon, he was never the same again!

*www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2973183/Jihadi-John-never-suffering-brain-injury-ran-head-goalpost-claims-former-classmate.html

 

[GhorMaanas]

the relatives of emwazi are fleeing from their west london home, and want newer identities. taking cue from the movie 'baby', i think these people should be held accountable for emwazi's crimes and atleast deported back to Kuwait, its tough to believe that they had no idea of where their scumboy had disappeared all this time. it could so happen in the future that another 'emwazi' will come forth from the family, play the 'victim-game', and wreak havoc in the name, while the leftists will try to justify on the grounds of 'harassment' that the family faced earlier.

though in the end i know its not going to happen. the british govt. is just another whining libtard band!