Another Example of How All That Surveillance Is Working

[Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State terrorist known as “Jihadi John,” ] was a computer programming graduate of the University of Westminster and lived in Queen’s Park, West London, [and] is thought to have killed American journalist James Foley. The killing was shown in a video released last August.

He is further believed to have featured in the videos of the beheadings of US journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British taxi driver Alan Henning, and US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known as Peter.

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Emwazi was a “person of interest” for MI5 as he was a member of a London based jihadi cell that had been set up to recruit militants.

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Despite clearly being on the radar of the British intelligence services, Emwazi, who was born in Kuwait and travelled to the UK as a child with his family was able to avoid detection and eventually escape to Syria in 2013.

“Given the numbers who appear to have ‘slipped through the net’, it is legitimate to ask, how many more people must die before we start to look more closely at the strategy of our intelligence services?” said the former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, writing in the Guardian on Friday.

  RT

Another case to which the punch line could be: are the Five Eyes intelligence/security agencies incompetent or complicit?