Revealed: Killers journey from Dar to IS terror hub

2. August 2009, Put on plane to the Netherlands. Claims to have been questioned by an M15 agent and accused of wanting to fight in Somalia.      

By Souad Mekhennet, Adam Goldman & Griff Witte

In Summary

Though the global media reported that Jihadi John’s story, raises fresh questions about the ability of the security services to monitor extremists, the other side of the story offered by UK’s based ...
organisation, Cage, shows how sometime law enforcers can turn a person into a notorious criminal.

London. The story of the masked executioner, who as “Jihadi John”, has come to embody the brutal violence, who was identified on Thursday as a British computer programmer, shows how intelligence communities failed to prove their accusations against the barbaric killer—and eventually through series of harassments turned the suspect into a notorious terrorist.

Though the global media reported that Jihadi John’s story, raises fresh questions about the ability of the security services to monitor extremists, the other side of the story offered by UK’s based organisation, Cage, shows how sometime law enforcers can turn a person into a notorious criminal.

As the world’s media descended on the addresses, where he was raised – ranging from an £800,000 (Sh2 billion) mansion block apartment in Maida Vale to his last-known address on a gritty west London estate – debate raged about how the well-dressed and pensive son of a minicab driver became the blood-soaked poster boy of Isis.

Background

His real name is Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old British citizen, who was born in Kuwait in 1988, but moved to the UK at the age of 6. Raised and educated in London, he completed his university studies in 2009.

He hoped that with this degree, he could build a successful career in Arab countries, as he was fluent in Arabic, English and a British citizen.

As many students, upon completing his studies, Emwazi wanted a break and planned a summer holiday go to Tanzania with one of the key attractions there being safari.

Detention in Tanzania at the British request

In August 2009, he landed in Tanzania, but was soon stopped at the airport. Without being given an official reason, he was denied entry. A number of armed officers were shouting and threatening, when a man called “Emmanuel” introduced himself.

He eventually physically dragged him to a car waiting outside and taken to a police station.

He was thrown into a cell, while officers tried to strip him to his underwear. He remained there for about 24 hours without food or drink, being threatened by officers armed with guns and sticks.