'Jihadi John' dominates today's press reports here in the UK.
This is one of the less 'sympathetic' reports ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...il-Sunday.html
It also turns out that the BBC, according to this, tried to steal credit from the Washington Post over his being identified ....The Islamic State killer known as Jihadi John revealed that he knew British security services were closing in on him and that he was a ‘dead man walking’ in astonishing emails to a Mail on Sunday journalist.
His emails were sent before he left Britain to join Islamic State in Syria.
At the time, Mohammed Emwazi, the man now unmasked as the knife-wielding fanatic, was claiming to be an innocent victim of MI5 persecution.
Emwazi, who would go on to orchestrate at least six hostage murders in Syria, said the harassment affected him so badly he was contemplating suicide. ‘I’ll take as many pills as I can so that I will sleep for ever,’ he warned. His emails to Security Editor Robert Verkaik in December 2010 and 2011 offer a remarkable insight into his state of mind at a time when he was already deeply immersed in extremism.
Some verge on the paranoid, with frequent complaints that his every move is being shadowed by intelligence officers.
The news comes amid a series of revelations that:
- Emwazi was a member of a secret Osama Bin Laden sleeper cell based in Britain called The London Boys, which planned to carry out atrocities in the West;
- He was involved with a violent street gang who targeted the wealthy residents of Belgravia with stun guns;
- Emwazi was arrested trying to force his way past security on to a passenger flight from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Johannesburg without a passport in 2009;
- The IS executioner’s father was a policeman in Kuwait before he moved his family to Britain
David Cameron will announce new plans to give spies greater powers to eavesdrop on terror suspects’ electronic communication.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-earlier.html
The Left (.. anything to try and manufacture a way of excusing him, so separating his actions firmly away from 'mainstream Islam') are reporting a different so-called 'feature' to the case of 'Jihadi John' ... claiming that he is as he is because of a head injury. He's supposedly had his personality altered through suspected brain damage ...The BBC came under fire last night for claiming it had ‘broken’ the story about the naming of Jihadi John when the Washington Post had revealed his identity an hour earlier.
The US newspaper published its story at 9.45am GMT yesterday, while the BBC broadcast its first message on Twitter and put the story online at 10.51am.
Washington Post reporter Adam Goldman complained: ‘I love the BBC but they don’t have much of the story: Souad Mekhennet [his colleague on the Washington Post] and I own this.’
The Washington Post is understood to have known about the story for several days but held back on publication until yesterday morning for editorial reasons. Its reporters strongly denied passing the story to the BBC. Miss Mekhennet said: ‘Can’t say how [the] BBC heard about it, but not from us.’
As part of their investigations, the newspaper’s reporters spoke to UK campaign group Cage, which describes itself as ‘an independent advocacy organisation working to empower communities impacted by the War on Terror’.
There was speculation last night that Cage may have been the BBC’s source.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...hn-not-5242176
The Left will want all perception of Jihadi John's behaviour totally separated from any possibility of anyone characterising it as something Islamic. James O'Brien, mentioned above, is one of the most Left wing presenters LBC has ... and this, of course, puts CAGE's propaganda on a supposedly firm footing ...A former friend of the terror suspect says Emwazi suffered a brain injury after falling into goalposts, causing him to "go a bit weird".
A former school friend of Jihadi John has told how the terror suspect dramatically changed after banging his head during a playground accident.
The friend - known as Mohammed - said he attended St Mary Magdalene primary school in West London with the ISIS militant, whose real name was unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi.
The former school mate says he was shocked to discover Emwazi was the man suspected of carrying out a series of brutal beheadings on behalf of the terror group.
He says the ISIS militant changed after he fell into goalposts as he attempted to get away from other pupils during a fight.
He claimed the alleged killer suffered a brain injury after hitting his head and falling to the floor and later went "a bit weird".
Speaking to James O'Brien on LBC, he said: "We were in the playground and Mohammed was running away from someone. He was just about to get into a fight and he was running away from someone.
"As he was running, another kid tried to block off his path. He had nowhere to go and he basically ran into the goalposts, hit his head and fell to the floor."
He told the radio station that his former friend "was not the same" again after the accident and was not seen in school for another two weeks.
.. or so they'd hope ...
Debate, led by LBC phone-ins here, is concentrating on this. Some people here are seeing this terrorist as acting out of sickness rather than as anyone legitimately representing anything Islamic.
So you see, something of a propaganda war has developed ... with the 'brain injury' used as the perfect way of keeping Islam's reputation fully sanitised in the minds of the general public. Added to this is the persisting, 'CAGE'-inspired accusation that rogue behaviour from MI5 may have 'forced' him into being radicalised ....
If the Left have their way, not only will Islam remain PC-sanitised, but a strand of sympathy will be born to help sympathetically regard future radicalised Brits !
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