The London graduate believed to be Islamic State
executioner “Jihadi John” once
denounced the 9/11 attacks and the 2005 bombings
in the British capital, according to an audio recording released Tuesday.
Kuwait-born Mohammed Emwazi was identified by
media and experts last week — and now, reportedly, also by his parents — as the
knife-wielding masked man in online videos showing the beheadings of at least
five IS hostages.
In a conversation with a member of British
rights group Cage, Emwazi described how in 2009 he was interviewed by a British
officer, reported to be from domestic spy agency MI5.
Asked about his views on the New York and London
attacks and the war in Afghanistan, Emwazi — speaking in a London accent —
condemned the loss of life, but complained that his interrogator did not
believe him.
“I said, after what I told you, after I told you
that what’s happening is extremism, this and that, and you’re still suggesting
that I’m an extremist?” he said.
“And he started going on trying to put words
into my mouth to say: ‘No you’re doing this, this and this, and we’re going to
keep a close eye on you Mohammed — we already have been and we’re going to keep
a close eye on you’.”
Cage, which supports people detained in the “war
on terror,” was in contact with Emwazi for several years, and said MI5 had been
tracking him since at least 2009.
Research director Asim Qureshi last week
described him as a “beautiful young man” who had been harassed by British
intelligence to the point of becoming radicalised.
Qureshi’s comments prompted a furious response
among politicians and the media, with the Mayor of London Boris Johnson calling
them an “apology for terror.”
In the two-minute recording released by Cage,
Emwazi said the 2005 London attacks that killed 52 people were the result of
“extremism,” and noted in Afghanistan, “innocent people are getting killed.”
On the 2001 attacks in New York, he said: “If I
had the opportunity for those lives to come back then I would make those lives
come back. I think what happened is wrong.”
Asked what he thought of “the Jews,” Emwazi
said: “Everyone has got his right to his own beliefs. I don’t force no-one.”
Meanwhile it was reported that Emwazi’s parents
have admitted to recognising him when he first appeared in a video showing the
execution of US reporter James Foley in August.
Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas said in a report on
Monday that Emwazi’s father, Jassem Abdulkareem, had been questioned by Kuwaiti
police on Sunday and told them his wife “recognized her son’s voice,” as he
subsequently did as well.
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