'It wasn't jobs' - Jihadi John radicalised after meeting al-Qaeda chief, Kuwaiti sources say. (Telegraph).
Mohammed Emwazi, the British jihadist unmasked as the bloodthirsty executioner "Jihadi John", changed his faith and became more radical after meeting a one-time confidant of Osama bin Laden known for recruiting Western-based Islamists to carry attacks on their own countries, the Telegraph has learned.
Emwazi met Mohsin al-Fadhli, a native of Kuwait who later led al-Qaeda's Khorasan network, in 2007, around the same time that he also encountered Khalid al-Dossary, a Saudi national now serving life in a US prison for attempted bomb-making, Kuwaiti security sources have said. So profound were the effect of the two men's ideas on Emwazi that he renounced his Shia faith and converted to the Sunni creed adhered to by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
That represented a drastic change from the religious beliefs Emwazi appeared to hold in his youth living in London. Associates recall him wearing a necklace with the symbol of a sword, strongly suggesting his loyalty to Shiism, another branch of Islam.
The revelation that Emwazi met al-Fadhli provides a new insight into his development as a ruthless killer. No details have been disclosed over where and how the meeting took place and it is unknown if the two remained in contact.
Emwazi, who was born in Kuwait, is said to have been barred from re-entering the country by the Kuwaiti authorities because he worked in the UK as activist for its roughly100,000-strong Bedoon minority population, to which his family belonged before emigrating in the 1990s. Read the full story here.
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