Court papers show extent of Mohammed Emwazi's links to terror before joining ISIS, Mohammed Emwazi, recently identified as the infamous 'Jihadi John' featured in several videos showing the beheading of hostages by ISIS, was a member of a terror cell linked to failed attacks on London's Underground subway system in 2005.
Emwazi's ties to terror groups have been laid out by the British government in court papers that show that he was known to that country's security services as early as 2011. The documents were first disclosed by two British newspapers, The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.
According to the documents, the Kuwaiti-born Emwazi was described as a "person of interest" to MI5, Britain's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency. Officials say he was a member of a cell formed in 2007 to recruit fighters for al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror organization linked to Al Qaeda. The network was believed to have at least a dozen members. ..Read More
Emwazi's ties to terror groups have been laid out by the British government in court papers that show that he was known to that country's security services as early as 2011. The documents were first disclosed by two British newspapers, The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.
According to the documents, the Kuwaiti-born Emwazi was described as a "person of interest" to MI5, Britain's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency. Officials say he was a member of a cell formed in 2007 to recruit fighters for al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror organization linked to Al Qaeda. The network was believed to have at least a dozen members. ..Read More
