London: Mohammed Emwazi, the terrorist known as Jihadi John who was killed by a drone strike last year, had warned his brother not to follow in his footsteps before leaving for Syria. Emwazi told his younger sibling Omar, 22, that his own encounters with the British security services had wrecked his life in Britain and had ended his plans for marriage and work in his homeland of Kuwait, Independent reported.
In an interview last year before his brother’s death in November, Omar described Emwazi’s turmoil while he was under surveillance by MI5 and Scotland Yard between 2009 and 2012. Omar recalled: “He wasn’t the type of guy to complain... but he would say: ‘Don’t be like me.’ He was always saying: ‘Learn from other people’s mistakes.’ He would basically say: ‘Look where I am. I can’t get married and I can’t get a proper job. I can’t travel and I can’t go nowhere’.”
Omar says his brother had made several attempts to return to Kuwait but was blocked each time by the security services. But in late 2012 Emwazi did finally manage to find a way of escaping Britain, leaving via the port of Dover. He entered Syria through Turkey before joining a group of foreign fighters allied to al-Qaeda.
ISIS releases new video, shows paris attackers:
The Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group has released a strongly defiant new beheading video, showing the nine ‘Paris attackers’ and threatening an attack on the UK – displaying footage of major London sites. The 17-minute video, dubbed ‘Paris Has Collapsed’, features the final words of the killers behind the Paris attacks last November and shows footage of the Big Ben, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square as well as British PM David Cameron and House of Commons Speaker John Bercow.
The UK-related images are shown towards the end of the clip, which predominantly focuses on the Paris attackers. Among those who carry out beheadings in the video is Bilal Hadfi, who was killed during the Paris attacks."You destroy our homes and kill our fathers, our brothers, our sisters, our mothers and our children," he says into the camera during the footage.
The video also features Abu Qital al-Faransi who is believed to have been one of the gunmen who opened fire in the Bataclan theatre of the French capital. As Cameron addresses the Commons in the clip, a message reads “Whoever stands in the ranks of Kufr (non-believers) will be a target for our swords and will fall in humiliation.
A spokesperson for the UK government said: "We are currently examining this latest Daesh (ISIS) propaganda video – another desperate move from an appalling terrorist group that is clearly in decline." The video seemingly aims to show that the Paris attackers, some of whom had French and Belgian passports, had trained in ISIS-held territory before killing 130 people in France.
It features all nine attackers one by one in locations with similar topography to previous propaganda videos filmed near Raqqa, Syria, according to British media reports. The video ends with an encrypted massage dated November 16, 2015, which couls hold clues to the location of their next attack. The message uses PGP (Pretty Great Privacy) data encryption and decryption computer programme, often used by ISIS for encrypting and decrypting texts, emails and data files. The video follows a film-style poster of the Paris attackers, also released by the group's propaganda arm.
