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International News Title: Jihadi John identified: What we know about Mohammed Emwazi 'Jihadi John', the man who has killed at least five hostages in slickly produced videos from Islamic State, has been named by the Washington Post as Mohammed Emwazi. The jihadist, believed to be from West London, first appeared in the killing of James Foley, an American journalist, in August, dressed in black with only his eyes visible. He reappeared in videos of the beheadings of Steven Sotloff, another US journalist, the British aid worker David Haines, Peter Kassig, an American aid worker and the British charity worker Alan Henning. What do we know about Mohammed Emwazi so far? According to the Post, he was born in Kuwait and moved to the UK when he was six. Adam Goldman, one of the reporters who broke the story, said that Emwazi was 20 when he went to Tanzania in May 2009, and so should now be 26 years old. The Post reported that Emwazi was identified by his friends, with one saying: “I have no doubt that Mohammed is Jihadi John. He was like a brother to me [. . .] I am sure it is him.” A spokesperson from the University of Westminster, where he reportedly studied Information Technology, said: “A Mohammed Emwazi left the University six years ago. If these allegations are true, we are shocked and sickened by the news. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. “We have students from 150 countries and their safety is of paramount concern. With other universities in London, we are working to implement the Government’s Prevent strategy to tackle extremism. “We are setting up a dedicated pastoral team to provide advice and support. In the meantime, we urge any students who are concerned to contact the Student Support and Well-being team.” He lived in a middle-class neighbourhood, the Post reported, and would sometimes pray at Greenwich mosque. In an article from 2010, The Independent wrote that he was stopped by MI5 in Tanzania as he tried to go on safari and deported to Amsterdam, where he was accused of being a member of al-Shabaab and of trying to reach Somalia. Emwazi was said to be obsessed with Somalia, according to a former hostage and reportedly made hostages captured by Isil watch videos relating to al- Shabaab. The terrorist group is allied to al-Qaeda and its most notorious attack was the assault on Nairobi's Westgate Mall in September 2013 in which 67 people were killed. The episode appeared to anger Emwazi. Asim Qureshi, research director at the rights group, Cage, told the Post: "Mohammed was quite incensed by his treatment, that he had been very unfairly treated." The BBC tweeted a court document from a case involving another suspected militant and the Home Secretary, Theresa May, in which Emwazi is named as an associate. Its home affairs correspondent, Dominic Casciani, said another "core member" of this same group of West London jihadis, Bilal Berjawi, was subsequently killed in a drone strike in Somalia.
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