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| 'Jihadi John' won't have the same impact unmasked |
| 2015-03-03 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] As "Jihadi John," he was a terrifying figure, his identity concealed by a black mask, his threatening tone backed up by his oversize, serrated knife and his willingness to use it in the name of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and its self-declared caliphate. His professional-looking videos began with a political rant and ended with his victims lying dead at his feet, severed heads cupped in the sands of Syria. He seemed both judge and executioner, savoring each fresh kill. After the 9/11 attacks on the US, many believed that Now that he has been exposed as Mohammed Emwazi, the tall man with the British accent and mocking tone is no longer a mystery. He is revealed as one more furious young Londoner, in this case a well-educated, middle-class jihadi in his mid-20s who turned against his adopted country after he moved to Britannia from Kuwait as a boy. His unmasking may well have reduced his usefulness to the cause. For one thing, with his identity known, and the global distribution of pictures of him looking slightly goofy in an ill-fitting Pittsburgh Pirates baseball cap, Emwazi may become less sinister to viewers, less able to send chills up the spines of people who abhor Islamic State's claim to be killing civilians in the name of Islam. If he kills again on camera, the element of surprise will be gone and the reaction may well be, "Oh, him again." Also, now that authorities know who he is, there is little doubt he will become the target of a drone attack if the US or Britannia can learn his precise whereabouts. The pressure on him could make him less valuable to Islamic State snuffies - perhaps even a liability. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Which is why there will be a new spokesanimal along soon. |
| Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-03 15:49 |
| #3 Mid-20s and went to London from Kuwait as a boy. Let me do the math here. He left Kuwait in the early 90s when the West was rescuing Kuwait from Iraq. What an ungrateful piece of trash. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-03 14:43 |
| #2 He is revealed as one more furious young Londoner, in this case a well-educated, middle-class jihadi in his mid-20s who turned against his adopted country after he moved to Britannia from Kuwait as a boy. Oh, that makes me feel so much better. The guy sells Jihadwow, and this author thinks that ho-humming these executions is the answer? Exit question: Pittsburg Pirates Baseball is a bit obscure nationwide here in the USA...how are sales in London over the last week? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-03-03 12:42 |
| #1 I don't advocate stooping to these animals' level but I wonder how terrifying JJ would be if some one put his head on a pike in the commons at the Tower of London. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2015-03-03 00:19 |