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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: ISIS 'Jihadi John' Named By Media As Mohammed Emwazi [Watch (HLS stream): ISIS 'Jihadi John' Named By Media As Mohammed Emwazi](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/m9SUebEB.m3u8) (1:26)  _Published 2015-02-26. The Washington Post and BBC are both reporting the identity of Jihadi John, arguably the world's most wanted man, is a Londoner named Mohammed Emwazi._ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:59 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [New ‘Jihadi John’ Might Have Already Been Figured Out](/video/wVBo6ea3/) ### New ‘Jihadi John’ Might Have Already Been Figured Out [Know Right Now: U.S. Drone Strikes Targeted ‘Jihadi John’](/video/OU61NtIo/) ### Know Right Now: U.S. Drone Strikes Targeted ‘Jihadi John’ [10 Questions for Mohamed ElBaradei](/video/zWCbvsLG/) ### 10 Questions for Mohamed ElBaradei --- ## Transcript As a government, you have been at the forefront of the aggression towards Islamic state. That was the first time we heard the voice the man known as Jihadi John, who for western media would become the face of Isis. Now, he's been identified as Mohammed Amwazi. That's according to the BBC and the Washington Post, both of which reported Emwazi's identity early Thursday. He is a, a man we believe from London. Around 27 years of age. We don't have. A lot of details about him. The BBC says the United Kingdom's MI5 Security Agency identified Emwazi as a person of interest since at least 2010 with links to the Somalia based Al- Shabaab terrorist group. Close friends of Emwazi told the Washington Post he was raised in a middle class neighborhood in West London and held a degree in computer programming. Speaking the CNN, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies said [ UNKNOWN ] profile was typical of terrorists. Terrorist in general, not just jihadist groups, tend to recruit from people who, or tend to be comprised of people who are of higher socioeconomic status from the norm. People who are more well educated than the norm. Shortly after the first video appeared British media speculated the executioner's identity may have been another man known as Britain's Hip Hop Jihadist. A month later the FBI announced they had identified who Jihadi John was without giving his name. 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