officials. then in 2009 and again repeatedly, even though he tried to take up a computing job using his computing degree that he d obtained from the university in london. in kuwait that he was unable to go to kuwait to take up that computing job. so the narrative that cage is portraying here is one that really essentially the british intelligence services and counterterrorism officials here really pushed him along this path to jihadism if you will. however, what they don t answer and they have this detailed information about enwazi they don t really explain how he came to be under the radar and attention if you will of the british intelligence services in 2009 such that they would essentially have him turned around when the got to tanzania and question him multiple times when he comes back. so what we re hearing from them is something that is explaining part of his life and they re saying is a broader narrative that happens to young men in this country. this is an organization that in
back to our breaking news. u.s. officials confirm that the masked man in the beheading videos from isis is mohammed enwazi born in kuwait lived in london and according to a british activist enwazi was repeatedly detained unfairly and questioned by security agencies including the u.k. s mi 5. listen. he wants to make a life for himself in kuwait. he was obsessed with this one thing. i want to get married out there. i want to live out there. i don t want to live in this country that treats me like a terrorist even though they ve got no evidence against me. i m an innocent man. apparently that was back when he was detained in 2009 2010. those were some of the conversations going on between enwazi and authorities. joining me now is adam goldman, one of the washington post reporters who broke this story, revealing enwazi s name. adam i want to play another clip from koreshi a source also
such a beautiful young man. really. it s hard to imagine the trajectory. with me now are artika schubert in the neighborhood enwazi once lived. first nick cage what does that group say happened to enwazi before he apparently became radicalized? reporter: they re saying that his sort of trajectory if you will matches that of hundreds of other young people they say that come to them. say that they re being harassed by the british intelligence services. enwazi they say took a flight to tanzania this was a graduation gift from his parents, that he was going there on safari. but he was turned around and sent back to the u.k. questioned by mfi, questioned by other counterterrorism
and on that line of questioning, at the same news conference koreshi characterized enwazi as somebody who is kind gentle, humble grateful. i know your co-writer spoke to people who also knew emwazi friends of his. do they say the same? they described him as intelligent, somewhat quiet, outgoing respectful. so that doesn t that fits with what we know. i might add there are many people throughout history who have been cold killers who have been given the same descriptions. it doesn t necessarily fit our image of a terrorist or fit what we know of isis. do you think that s why officials have been so hesitant to confirm his identity up until this point? i mean, i don t know. i think there was an active investigation. and i think the officials didn t want his name to come out because they are targeting him.
he was from the west because of his voice. any attempt by you, obama, to deny the muslims their rights of living in safety under the islamic caliphate will result in the bloodshed of your people. before he became this alleged terrorist, enwazi reportedly claimed he was treated like one multiple times according to a british activist. a director from the advocacy organization cage said enwazi was wrongfully questioned and detained repeatedly since 2009. this is koreshi. he says he is not certain that this man in the isis videos is enwazi, but he says the man he knew was kind and gentle. while i think that there are striking similarities between the young man that i remember and the person we see on the video, i can t be 100% certain. he s got a hood on. come on, guys. the guy s got a hood on his head. it s quite hard. because he s such a he was