The beginning of the end for Daesh

[David Guyatt]

Thanks Drew. You have to feel for the parents don't you.

Meanwhile, as seems to always be the case, Mohammed Emwazi was known to British intelligence years before he left to travel to Syria. This happens with such frequency that it leads one to ask questions:

As Andrew Exum, a fellow at the Center for New American Security, wrote on Twitter Thursday: "Mohammed Emwazi as a Rorschach test: Did the state radicalize him? Or did the state correctly ID a radical?"

I suppose the cynic in me would even ask a more penetrating question than the either/or posed above. But that's just me. But the following is what appears to have happened on his visit to Tanzania

But in 2009, he was detained in Tanzania, which by some accounts is what started him on a path to extremism.

He went to Tanzania, he said, for a safari vacation with friends. Britain's intelligence agency MI5, however, believed he was going to East Africa to join Al Shabab in Somalia.

Emwazi told CAGE, a British civil rights organization, that Tanzanian officials dragged him into a car and took him to a police station, where he was "thrown into a cell while officers tried to strip him to his underwear."

The next day he was flown to Amsterdam, where he was held by MI5. Emwazi claims after he was interrogated the agent tried to recruit him as an informant, according to asummary of his case posted by CAGE.

Emwazi was reportedly stopped and questioned repeatedly during his travels in the ensuing years and was eventually barred from visiting Kuwait, which he claims, forced him to lose his job and marriage.

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