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Jihadi John

Jihadi John

The Making of a Terrorist

by Robert Verkaik
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/2016

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When Islamic State's black-masked executioner, 'Jihadi John', was revealed to be Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old IT graduate from west London, senior security editor Robert Verkaik was shaken more than most.

In 2010 he'd interviewed this man.

At the time Emwazi had claimed MI5 were ruining his life. He was desperate for his story to be told, believing that going public might force the security services to leave him alone. He later told Verkaik that he felt like a 'dead man walking.'

Verkaik's investigation into the making of 'Jihadi John' leads him to the disturbing questions that Emwazi left behind.

What led him, and many other young Muslim men, to come to Verkaik for help in the first place?

And why do hundreds of other Britons wish to join Islamic State?

Frightening, thoughtprovoking and urgent, Jihadi John assesses the threat IS poses to the UK and examines how the actions of our security services might help create the same enemy we're trying to defeat.

ISBN:
9781780749433
9781780749433
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-02-2016
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x24mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Robert Verkaik

Robert Verkaik is a freelance journalist who writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Independent and Independent on Sunday.

His reporting was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010. He lives in Surrey.

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