it s important to keep in mind, george, that emwazi, born in kuwait and growing up in the uk is really even though he s played a very prominent media role with these gruesome beheadings of journalists and aid workers, he s not part of the leadership structure of isis, which is made up predominantly of iraqis, including iraqis with experience with saddam hussein s security hierk i can. hierarchy. so in the grand picture, not necessarily a huge role. there s not going to be huge impact from his killing. but you need to look beyond this particular incident to the broader picture. you see the kurds with u.s. air support on the offensive in sinjar, west of mosul. you see the kurds within syria also pushing isis back. you see the russians in some instances, hitting isis targets as well. so isis is really beginning to
so the temptation of some sort of jihadist glory and the battle in syria and iraq may not be quite what it used to be these days. george? jihadi john, where did he come from? a former teacher calls him quiet and reserved. we went to london to find out more about the man who hid behind the mask. reporter: it s an ordinary scene in a west london high scoop. teenage boys goofing around with a basketball. one with a backpack shows off some fancy footwork. then someone calls out the name to match the now famous mouse. d face. mohammed emwazi, confirmed to be jihadi john. in this video, you can see him throw a playful bunch when a
it s not a trajectory that s unfamiliar for us. emwazi s path traveled to tanzania to go on safari. but he was detained on arifle, held overnight then deported to the uk. authorities suspecting his true intention was to travel to somalia. in 2010, he was detained again by counterterrorism officials in britain. just two years later, he traled to syria where he joined isis. his friends claim mistreatment by british authority, set them on a path to terrorism. our entire national security strategy for the last 13 years has only increased ail yan
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emwazi when all these videos were coming out. the videos are a very important part of their recruiting techniques. for people who are just learning this news, you know, what does this do to those who might have been interested in joaning isis. it may cause them to think twice about perhaps traveling to syria or iraq to join isis. and these individuals like jihadi john or mohammed emwazi certainly wore symbols as kind of the perverse power that isis gave to people who otherwise in their home countries didn t have. that attraction may be losing a bit of its shine. losing a bit of its shine because of this strike if perhaps he is dead. but also looking again at the broader picture. isis is on the defensive. it s being pushed back in iraq, pushed back in syria.