The ISIS militant with a British accent was publicly identified today as Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old from a London family who fled Britain after the government tried repeatedly to prevent him traveling abroad.
Born in Kuwait, Emwazi’s family moved to London when he was six, and he graduated from the University of Westminster with a degree in computer science.
That’s where his background gets tricky. He tried to go on safari to Tanzania in 2009, and was detained on British government orders. MI5 approached him with the idea of being an informant for them. He refused.
He went to Kuwait later that year to visit family, and got a job there working for a computer company. After what was intended to be a brief return visit had his visa denied and was stuck in Britain. He then sought to teach English abroad but was again prevented from traveling.
Stuck in Britain, he complained of a “campaign of harassment” by MI5, who wanted to condition his travel abroad on him becoming their informant. Aid group CAGE, which was familiar with his situation at the time, called him an “extremely gentle” man who wanted to go back to Kuwait, where he had a fiancee.
A 2013 attempt to change his name then travel to Kuwait to teach English was again blocked by the British government, which appears to have been the last straw. He disappeared shortly thereafter, and a few months later his family was informed he’d gone to Syria.
The FBI and MI5 have apparently known he was Jihadi John for awhile, and the US is said to be scrambling to find out more about him, with an eye on putting him on a kill list.
So what makes you think he is not a MI5 agent? "He somehow disappeared" is not very convincing.
He's someone's, wittingly or not.
Western logic — Carried to it’s ultimate conclusion
If the Western powers were honest and deadly force could establish law and order, then the West could allow the Middle-East to battle it out until those most deadly established rule, peace and justice. Then the West with it’s supreme deadly force could intervene only as needed to correct a grave injustice.
Problem is, the Western powers have the most corrupt and greed driven governments known to man, deadly force is the most criminal and evil thing created by man and the ultimate conclusion of it may very well be the total extinction of man.
So far I have heard only one establishment press report that mentioned that UK agents spent four years trying to recruit him. That was a BBC radio report broadcast in the middle of the night.
While all Americans now know that "Jihadi John" is an Evildoer, almost none will ever hear about the years of harassment by the authorities.
ISIS is truly western powers creation to demonize Islam and Muslims in order to justify their new draconian laws and wars against Muslims .All at the top are western trained agents and recruits who were mostly criminals and gang members who have had no connection to or any knowledge of Islam.Every wannabe is using the bogus ISIS to advance his schemes and ambitions.
The western aim has always been to destroy secular Arab nationalism, which aspires to treat Christians, Muslims, Mandeans (they were wiped out in Iraq during the US occupation) Jews and all the sects equally, and to respect the rights of the non-Arab minorities as well. The ethnic separatists and theocratic reactionaries have always been sponsored by the West and Israel.
Do you like my head, Dr Frankenstein?
With all the support Saddam got during his early years it is clear that Ba'thists were also a creation of the West.
Does anyone else see selective bigotry in condemning followers of islam for sending people to fight invaders while not a word about the jewish money and bodies sent to kill palestinians, in fact they are praised in the press and parliaments of the (west)
Well, yes. But a witch is a witch. I wouldn't want to sound like a "terrorist sympathizer."
Kinda where they normally push people's awareness/blindspots towards…it's the sacred folks who need scapegoats.
Few years back there were several incident where British and American agents were cough ,by chance,in Iraq who were dressed as Iraqis with arsenal of weapons and bombs in their possession.