Foreign policy reporter Adam Goldman explains who Mohammed Emwazi is and how The Washington Post discovered his identity. (Gillian Brockell and Alice Li/The Washington Post)
“Jihadi John,” who has been filmed beheading a number of American, British and Japanese hostages in videos released by the Islamic State, was revealed on Thursday to be Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwait-born Londoner. In one photo of Emwazi released by Sky News in England, he is wearing a baseball hat that should look very familiar to U.S. sports fans.
The Pittsburgh Pirates, suffice to say, are horrified that a symbol of their team is now connected with a murderer, and on Friday they released a short statement.
Via Reuters, Sky News reports that the photo came from Emwazi’s time at the University of Westminster.
After spending the first 17 years of his Post career writing and editing, Matt and the printed paper had an amicable divorce in 2014. He's now blogging and editing for the Early Lead and the Post's other Web-based products.
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