IS militant 'Jihadi John' named as Mohammed Emwazi from London
Source: BBC
The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages, has been named.
The BBC understands he is Mohammed Emwazi, a British man believed to be from West London, who was known to British security services.
They chose not to disclose his name earlier for operational reasons.
Emwazi first appeared in a video last August, when he apparently killed the American journalist James Foley.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31637090
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 Emwazis 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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jihadi-john-the-islamic-state-killer-behind-the-mask-is-a-young-londoner/2015/02/25/d6dbab16-bc43-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html?hpid=z1
DFW
(54,436 posts)He is one barbaric, sadistic evil character, and I don't want to hear about him again unless it's either his permanent confinement to a mental institution or his obituary.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...off him.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)/sarcasm
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)Let's see how tough he is when a Navy SEAL team or a squad of British Commandos are
outside of his house @ 4:00 AM.
hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)n/t
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)N/t
Botany
(70,581 posts)n/t
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)But if we get actionable information and we can get in, get the job done, and get out
I'm fine w/that too.
JI7
(89,264 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)He's a fucking punk-ass, whatever his name is...
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)considered to be "not pious enough" by one of his more sociopathic colleagues. Then what? Maybe a video of him crying for his mommy before it's lights out?
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)green bananas...
bpj62
(999 posts)If they can find Bin Laden then they will find this guy. Once there is a price on his head someone will rat him out and that will be the end of him. We didn't have boots on the ground in Pakistan and we got Bin Laden so this guy will be found as well. Just a matter of time.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141020617#post12
freshwest
(53,661 posts)candelista
(1,986 posts)He's a great MC, but "Mohammed Emwazi" is not a great stage name.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)It seems like the process of radicalization and the process of trying to stop it ended up in even deeper radicalization. What a conundrum.
This guy thought he was getting a raw deal from British authorities.
Not excusing his actions, but how do we break this cycle?
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)We should bend over backwards ...give them jobs, money, homes.
These poor people are perpetually offended.
We shouldn't offend them.
I'm sure burqas can be very stylish.
Who are we to judge ?
/sarcasm
yurbud
(39,405 posts)The group probably exists and probably is doing many of the bad things mentioned in the news, but our government and NATO are likely shaping and exaggerating the groups image to suit their geopolitical and economic purposes.
If they were really upset about their religious extremism and even beheadings, we would be getting an authorization of force to invade Saudi Arabia (which is also where we would likely be going if Obama ever releases the Saudi pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11).
candelista
(1,986 posts)From the article:
Abouttime
(675 posts)We in the west bear the responsibility for creating these monsters. Our ill fated, doomed from the start war with Iraq and the Taliban led to this. Our treatment of peaceful Muslims in the USA and Britan, infiltrating their places of worship, denying them the right to travel freely, ensnaring them in FBI and MI5 stings, Guantanamo and black sites, torture, incinerating innocents with drones, our continued support of dictatorships ie. the house of saud, the list goes on and on.
I for one am very happy our administration doesn't use terms like 'Islamic terrorism'. What is needed is a ratcheting down of rhetoric and a move to a more peaceful resolution to the many problems in the Middle East. The more we bomb and drone the more terrorists we will create. Yes I believe this jihiadi john is an evil character, but he wasn't that way until he was hounded by the British authorities. If you look into his history he was a fairly normal Muslim British young man with hopes and dreams like all young men. When his hopes and dreams were denied by the authorities, all he wanted to do was travel to Kuwait to marry his bride, he began to turn against the authority that had targeted him, a not at all uncommon story in human history. Oppression begets violence.
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)Plenty of people are hassled that much and never kill anybody.
randys1
(16,286 posts)to buy into their cause.
To give up everything and offer to die, basically.
What is their appeal that makes it so strong?
We cant go back and stop W and Cheney from committing mass murder, they did it, it is over and done.
What we have to do now is resolve this broken mess, which means we have to ask ourselves how much of this mess, that we are
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT RESPONSIBLE FOR,
are we willing to clean up and how?
And when I say WE I am painfully aware that I dont mean me, I mean YOUR son or daughter. Or mine, I guess.
Throd
(7,208 posts)You can own it if you want to.