A media outlet associated with Islamic State on Tuesday released a eulogy for “Jihadi John”, a member of the militant group who gained notoriety for his filmed execution of hostages, the monitoring organisation SITE reported.
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Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen, was referred to in some reports as “Jihadi John”.
A black-clad, masked militant, who has been identified by the Washington Post as a Briton named Mohammed Emwazi, brandishes a knife in this still image captured from a 2014 video obtained from the SITE Intelligence Group Feb. 26, 2015.
The one thing the magazine didn’t praise “Jihadi John” for were the actions that put crosshairs on his back: the executions of captured American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, American aid worker Peter Kassig and British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning.
He also appeared as a narrator in videos of other beheadings, including the mass killing of captive Syrian government soldiers.
The hostages nicknamed three British-sounding captors “the Beatles”, with “Jihadi John” a reference to John Lennon, Espinosa said.
Emwazi, a computer programmer from London, was born in Kuwait to a stateless family of Iraqi origin.
The new issue of the glossy English-language magazine produced by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) includes lengthy praise of the couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., late previous year.
Among the men pictured is Abdelhamid Abaaoud, identified by his nom de guerre Abu Umar al-Baljiki, or Abu Umar the Belgian.
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The two killers “proved that they were ready to sacrifice what was dearest to them for the sake of responding to Allah”, the magazine, Dabiq, cheers in its foreword. They were later killed in a shootout with police.
