#12 Jihadi John’Mohammed Emwazi
We all saw this guy in the ISIS beheading videos. The 27-year-old British citizen was given the moniker “Jihadi John” after he appeared in videos announcing the killing of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as the slaying of American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
Emwazi was described as a quiet and hardworking schoolboy in affluent northwest London. He was a graduate of the University of Westminster’s computer science program, and his presence brought the issue of homegrown extremism to the forefront.
“He was one of the worst, who hit and tortured without any restraint,” Didier Francois, a journalist held for ten months in Syria, told a French radio station.
