Jihadi John

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Mohammed Emwazi (born August 17, 1988 in al-Jahra , Kuwait , as Muhammad Jassim Abulkarim Olayan al-Dhafri ; Arabic محمد جاسم عبد الكريم عليان الظفيري, DMG Muḥammad Ǧāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm ʿAlyān aẓ-Ẓafīrī ; † November 12, 2015 in ar-Raqqa ), martial name Abu Abdullah al-Britani , known as " Jihadi John ", was a Kuwaiti- British Islamist terrorist from the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization , who was involved in the execution in various videos posted on the Internet of IS hostages . Emwazi was one of a group of four terrorists who, due to their British origins, are known as "the Beatles", based on the British pop band " The Beatles ". The nickname was given to him by the British press.

Life

Murders

People allegedly killed by him include James Foley , Steven Sotloff , David Haines , Alan Henning , Peter Kassig , Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto Jogo . In the course of the videos it is usually shown how the hooded perpetrator apparently begins to behead the victims. The act itself cannot usually be seen, but then the decapitated corpse is shown. The videos therefore leave open whether the victims were killed during the recording or afterwards and whether another person performed the beheading. Some forensic scientists believed the executions depicted were staged, but the pictures of the dead were real, but evidence is still lacking. An IS deserter stated in mid-March 2015 that numerous videos had been made with the victims in which nothing happened to them. They are said to have been assured of this shortly before the actual execution, so that they did not anticipate their impending death and appeared to be composed during the recordings. The witness alleged that Jihadi John personally carried out the executions. Former IS prisoners also reported torture , psychological terrorism and mock executions during the hostage detention .

Identity search

British journalists suspected, based on his accent and sociolect (Multicultural London English), that the man was from Great Britain . The MI5 and the FBI knew of the alleged identity since September 2014. end of February 2015 the media published the findings of Western intelligence agencies . According to these reports, it was Mohammed Emwazi. Emwazi is a British citizen, born in Kuwait in 1988 , came to Great Britain at the age of six, grew up in the West End and graduated from the University of Westminster's computer science course . His parents belonged to the Bidun social group . MI5 tried to recruit Emwazi as an informant for the secret service after graduating; when he refused, he was banned from traveling and then flew abroad without letting his family know. In 2012 he traveled to Syria . Emwazi's father doubts the presumptions of the secret services. However, since some family members are said to have received death threats after Emwazi's exposure, he is said to have apologized to them for the "inconvenience".

Death from drone attack

In August 2015, another video appeared that is supposed to show Jihadi John unmasked. In it he announced that he would return to Great Britain and "continue to cut heads" there. The source is the British tabloid Daily Mail , which relies on an unnamed face recognition expert for identification. On November 12, 2015, the Pentagon announced that a vehicle Emwazi was in near Ar-Raqqa , Syria, was destroyed by a Hellfire missile fired by a "Reaper" drone . According to the US military, there was a very high probability that Emwazi was among the inmates killed in the attack.

His death was confirmed on January 19, 2016 in an article in ISIS- published Dabiq magazine . The information given there about the circumstances of his death coincide with those of the US military.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. The Rafidah: From Ibn Saba 'to the Dajjal . In: Islamic State (ed.): Dabiq . No. 13 , 2016, p. 23 .
  2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/dozens-of-jihadis-in-fighting-in-syria-using-the-name-al-britani-10076635.html
  3. Why do we give notorious criminals nicknames? , The Independent, March 2, 2015
  4. Victims' relatives demand trial of "Jihadi John" . Article from February 27, 2015 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on February 27, 2015
  5. Foley murder video may have been staged , The Telegraph, Aug. 25, 2014
  6. Deserter unpacks: This is why IS hostages remain so calm in execution videos , Focus, March 13, 2015
  7. The Horror Before the Beheadings , New York Times, October 25, 2014
  8. An IS hostage reports: In the cruel universe of Jihadi John , Spiegel, March 16, 2015
  9. (Guardian) MI5 and Mohammed Emwazi: Agency Must Answer Serious Questions ( Memento of March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), CAGE, February 26, 2015.
  10. ^ Secret services unmask "Jihadi John" . Article from February 26, 2015 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on February 27, 2015
  11. Martin Chulov: 'The best employee we ever had': Mohammed Emwazi's former boss in Kuwait , The Guardian, March 2, 2015
  12. 'Jihadi John' killer from Islamic State beheading videos unmasked as Londoner , Reuters, February 26, 2015
  13. "My son is not 'Jihadi John'" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 4, 2015
  14. Jihadi John apologizes to family for "inconvenience" , Augsburger Allgemeine , March 9, 2015
  15. Jihadi John wants to return to Great Britain , blick.ch, August 24, 2015
  16. Jihadi John - 'I will go back to Britain ... and will carry on cutting heads off': In a chilling new video, man said to be hooded butcher vows to return ... and murder all unbelievers. Daily Mail, August 22, 2015, accessed November 16, 2015
  17. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/world/europe/jihadi-john-mohammed-emwazi-david-cameron-statement.html?_r=1
  18. 'Jihadi John': high degree of certainty US airstrike killed Mohammed Emwazi, sources say . The Guardian, Nov. 13, 2015.
  19. Islamic-State-confirmed-death-of-Jihadi-John , article Welt online of January 19, 2016