several international news organizations as a kuwaiti-born londoner named mohammed emwazi. he s from a middle class family and graduated with a computer engineering degree. not a desperate, poor radical, someone who was clearly driven by ideological reasons. he had been connected according to reports by the bbc, to somali organizations, that he had been interested in al shabab the al qaeda-linked group in somalia for the last couple of years and had been under surveillance. the british authorities were aware of him. they had questioned him in the past for being involved with a cell that was possibly sending extremists to somalia and he s believed to have entered syria in 2012 and was a group of