Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1780749430
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Back in 2010, Mohammed Emwazi was a twenty-one-year-old IT graduate who claimed the security services were ruining his life. They had repeatedly approached him, his family and his fiancée. Had they been tracking an already dangerous extremist or did they push him over the edge?
In the aftermath of the US air strike that killed Emwazi in November 2015, Verkaik’s investigation leads him to deeply troubling questions. What led Emwazi to come to him for help in the first place? And why do hundreds of Britons want to join Islamic State? In an investigation both frightening and urgent, Verkaik goes beyond the making of one terrorist to examine the radicalisation of our youth and to ask what we can do to stop it happening in future.
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Comments about the 7 July deaths just over a year earlier. hamid:You have the bottle, we know you have the bottle . . . You know what happened on the tubes, four people got shaheed [martyred]. How many people did they take out? answer: Fifty-two. hamid: That’s not even a breakfast for me. I would take my breakfast and I’ll still be with my wife and children. Remember Jack the Ripper? Remember those people that never got caught? Use your intelligence, use your hikma [wisdom] and be effective. See.
(548i) - final pass.indd 64 06/01/2016 15:05:31 MI5 AND THE HORN OF AFRICA for MI5.’ The contact did not stop there. Over the following weeks he claims ‘Katherine’ harassed him with dozens of phone calls.‘She would regularly call my mother’s home asking to speak to me,’ he said. ‘And she would constantly call my mobile.’ In one disturbing call the officer telephoned Elmi’s home at 7 a.m. to congratulate him on the birth of his baby girl. His wife was still seven months pregnant and the couple.
Soldiers were burned to death in their vehicles when the leader of the coalition forces, General Norman Schwarzkopf, issued orders to blockade a hundred-mile radius of Kuwait City. The retreating Iraqi convoys, stalled on Mutla Ridge on Highway 80 just outside the town, became sitting ducks for the Apache helicopters and fighter-bombers which were launched against them. While the Americans and their Saudi allies celebrated the vanquishing of Saddam and the alleviation of the threat to oil.
Allowed ample time for immigration case officers to fact-check the Emwazi family’s story, and to trace their recent history. The Home Office would not have relied solely on the family’s testimony and would have tried to secure independent evidence to prove there was a genuine and well-founded case of persecution in Kuwait. Any suggestion that the Emwazis had supported Iraqi invaders would have helped their case as this would have made it difficult for them to return to Kuwait. Omar Emwazi,.
Had also shared in the debriefings of the released hostages. The truth is that Cameron had known the nationality and possibly even the identity of Jihadi John weeks before. But nothing could have prepared the security agencies in London and Washington for how far IS was prepared to go to market their reign of terror. The beheadings were the propaganda centrepiece of the Islamic State’s asymmetric war against the West. And such is the power of social media that the Islamic State was able to give.