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Mwanaume ambaye amekuwa akitekeleza mauaji ya mateka wa kundi la wapiganaji wa Islamic State ajulikanaye kwa jina la utani "Jihadi John",ametambuliwa.
Bwana huyo ambaye taswira yake akiwachinja mateka kwa kisu bila huruma ndiyo nembo ya wapiganaji hao sasa ametambuliwa kuwa anatokea Uingereza.
Shirika la Habari la BBC limetambua kuwa jina lake kamili ni Mohammed Emwazi.
Emnuazi ameonekana kwenye video kadhaa ya mauwaji ya mateka wa mataifa wa magharibi, akiwemo Mmarekani James Foley, Raia wa Uingereza, Alan Henning na mwaandishi habari wa Japan, Kenji Goto.
Inaaminika kuwa Emwazi ni raia wa Uingereza na hasa anatokea magharibi mwa London.
Chanzo:BBC
The world knows him as "Jihadi John," the masked man with a British accent who has beheaded several hostages held by the Islamic State and who taunts audiences in videos circulated widely online.
But his real name, according to friends and others familiar with his case, is Mohammed Emwazi, a Briton from a well-to-do family who grew up in West London and graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. He is believed to have traveled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined the Islamic State, the group whose barbarity he has come to symbolize.
"I have no doubt that Mohammed is Jihadi John," said one of Emwazi's close friends who identified him in an interview with The Washington Post. "He was like a brother to me. . . . I am sure it is him."
The Kuwaiti-born Emwazi, in his mid-20s, appears to have left little trail on social media or elsewhere online. Those who knew him say he was polite and had a penchant for wearing stylish clothes while adhering to the tenets of his Islamic faith. He had a beard and was mindful of making eye contact with women, friends said.
The friends, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation, believe that Emwazi started to radicalize after a planned safari in Tanzania following his graduation from the University of Westminster.
Emwazi and two friends - a German convert to Islam named Omar and another man, Abu Talib - never made it on the trip. Once they landed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in May 2009, they were detained by police and held overnight. It's unclear whether the reason for the detention was made clear to the three, but they were eventually deported.
Emwazi flew to Amsterdam, where he claimed that an officer from MI5, Britain's domestic security agency, accused him of trying to reach Somalia, where the militant group al-Shabab operates in the southern part of the country, according to e-mails that he sent to Qureshi and that were provided to The Post.
