Jihadi John: A 'bullied' loner and model employee before ISIS

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LONDON — Those who knew Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State (ISIS) militant known as "Jihadi John," have been coming forward in the days since his identity was revealed to talk about the man they once knew.

A head teacher at his former school, an employer and an ex-ISIS associate have all spoken out about the man who appears in several videos purportedly showing the killing of Western hostages.

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His childhood

Emwazi, a Kuwait-born man in his late 20s, studied at the Quintin Kynaston Community Academy. The school's former head teacher, Jo Shuter, arrived at the school when Emwazi was about 14 years old. She remembers a "quiet, reasonably hard-working young person" who had some "adolescent issues" and suffered from bullying Read more...

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