Criminal law, International, Religion

Jihadi John Unmasked

jihadi-john-split-without-credit-1-762x428Jihadi_JohnWe finally have a face to go with the name of the infamous Islamic State murderer known as “Jihadi John.” He is Mohammed Emwazi and is shown here in a Pittsburgh Pirates hat from his time at the University of Westminster. He turns out to another militant from a well-off family and someone who seemed successful in society as we have seen in other cases. This will make it easier for the United States which, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, has made capturing or killing Jihadi John a priority.


The 26-year-old now beheads people for not believing in his extreme view of Islam.

When this picture was taken he was completing his Information Systems with Business Management degree at the London’s Cavendish campus.

Cases like Emwazi tend to undermine the image of IS militants as coming from people left without jobs or a future in the West.

276 thoughts on “Jihadi John Unmasked”

  2. What? Aesop ignores cankles and cults in his critique? Zut alors!

    1. The Problem with The Republican Party and the Radical Reactionary Moralizing Evangelicals is they have everyone so Stirred up and Paranoid about Islam that they see a Terrorist Behind every Tree. sound Familiar?

  3. randy

    Good grief.

    ‘That the Army or the OSS let them into the US gives some reason to think that there was more to his story than was presented since they DID not only let them in, but actively recruited those types. Once again, we cannot know, but your defense raises the prospect that he may have been more than an innocent bystander, which as I concede he may have been.’

    In one sentence we have:
    we cannot know
    he may have been more than an innocent bystander
    quickly followed by
    which as I concede he may have been {an innocent bystander}

    Well done, randy. A couple of sentences as mixed up as the region’s ethnic mix.

  5. Shark, gray whale, and aircraft carrier have been jumped on this thread. It is The Onion meets Fellini. it’s the 3 car accident that you just have to look @ in amazement, while cringing.

  6. My father likes to listen to Rush… He’s a paid subscriber to the EIB network.
    He does NOT listen to Rush when I’m around because I talk back AT Rush, talking over what he’s going on about… at which point my father has to turn it off to shut me up. 🙂

    So now, when I visit, Rush is all but hush…

  8. Max,
    I have no idea, actually I’m not quite sure that my dad.

  9. Annie,
    Your dad was a barber going into the war?
    My dad became a barber coming out of the war… LOL!

  10. Annie,
    That Stalin photo is really, really funny. Is that Vodka in your dad’s hand?

  11. They recruited barbers? Well the American soldiers did like the way he cut hair. When he took us to the base, the soldiers gave us candy bars and bubble gum.

  15. I’m pretty sure Nick was sharing a beer with Yogi on the boardwalk when Yogi first said the deja vu thingy.

  19. Trooper and DBQ, LOL. As the great Yogi Berra would say, “Deja Vu all over again.”

  20. randy says:

    Inga, Your family did NOT live in peace with their neighbors for generations because there was a little thing called WWII. Which side did your family fight on in that war? My guess would be that more than likely, they fought for the Nazis and were part of the genocidal Ustashi regime. The only decent folks in WWII in that part of the world were the communists of the Partisans.

    Just in case anyone missed it, randy said:

    My guess would be that more than likely, they fought for the Nazis and were part of the genocidal Ustashi regime.

    Later randy said to me:

    I never claimed to KNOW what he did. So your attack on me is personal and an outright lie and distortion. THAT is the difference between the posts. My questions are the kind that any Army intelligence type would ask of DPs by the way.

    Right, randy. You didn’t claim to KNOW – just that you found it ‘more than likely’. I guess you call that no harm, no foul. Sorta like McCarthy and ‘I have here a list of 50 people in the State Department who are communists’.

    You made a very personal accusation, an accusation based on no knowledge of the accused but only the supposition if he was an XXXXX therefore he must have done XXXX. Because you know the region’s history. Well, you may know the region’s history, but you do not know the history of each individual who lived there.

    And am I supposed to be impressed by Nick’s, our own Aesop, ‘confession’? I find that about as impressive as your defense that your questions are legitimate because that is what Army intelligence would ask of DPs. Yeah, right. Are we including the Army intelligence officers that let all the Nazis scientists and a fair number of guards escape?

    1. Wade As you well know that I modified my views as I learned more as we went along. Once I found out he was not Catholic, I agreed he more than likely would not have been a Ustahi supporter or with them. The one incontestable fact is that he was NOT on our side in WWII and was of military age. The war in Yugoslavia involved virtually the entire population on one side or the other. It was perhaps the bloodiest part of WWII which was pretty bloody. There were many factions, along with the Nazis which were killing each other. In fact, it was so bad that after the war, I think the Partisans did the right thing in establishing a dictatorship to restore peace and order. It is the only place and time in history that I would make such a judgment.

      That he fled from Yugoslavia shows he was not with the Partisans and had some reason to fear them or remaining in country. That the Army or the OSS let them into the US gives some reason to think that there was more to his story than was presented since they DID not only let them in, but actively recruited those types. Once again, we cannot know, but your defense raises the prospect that he may have been more than an innocent bystander, which as I concede he may have been.

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