Mohammed Emwazi, the British-Kuwaiti Da'esh/ISIS beheader known as "Jihadi John," was fuming with self-righteous outrage after he was deported from Tanzania in August 2009. Turns out, he was part of a London terrorist network all along. Who’d a-thunk: a guy willing to cut off heads of human prisoners would also tell lies?
Mohammed Emwazi whined that his safari was ruined once he was detained at the Tanzanian airport and sent back to Dover, England, where he was interrogated by MI6. But British security had been listening in on his phone conversations before he planned his trip and they knew he intended to meet up with Al-Shabab Islamist terrorists.
Emwazi, of course, denied any association with terrorism, pretended to denounce the 2005 London Tube bombings and the 9/11 attacks, and squealed about his innocence. But a dozen British court documents paint a different image of Emwazi and make a strong case for why he was on British security services' radar before his 2009 trip.
British security services knew that Emwazi was part of a radical West London recruitment network for Islamist terrorist teams. Besides Emwazi, the London group included: “CE”, Ibrahim Magag aka “BX”, “J1”, Mohammed Ezzouek, Hamza Chentouf, Mohammed Mekki, Mohammed Miah, Ahmed Hagi, Amin Addala, Aydarus Elmi, Sammy Al-Nagheeb, Bilal Berjawi and others. Of that group, virtually all are either dead or wanted. Emwazi also associated with Choukri Ellekhlifi, a gang member who preyed on rich targets in a series of violent attacks and who also later traveled to Syria to join ISIS. Hanging out with terrorists may not be a crime in itself, depending on what aid and abetting is offered to them, but it is certainly grounds for monitoring and questioning.
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