Kuwait- Security probes links to Emwazi


(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY March 3 (Agencies): The security authorities are collecting information through interrogations with relatives of Mohammed Emwazi that may help in investigations reports Al-Anba daily quoting reliable security sources. The sources added the authorities have already got some information from the relatives that may help in the investigations particularly their contacts with the man throughout ''this'' period and since joining the Islamic State or the socalled DAESH.

The sources said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has not yet been asked for help in this case. The sources added that CID will be ready to collect information reports and to what extent he helped his family financially when the department is asked to do so.

The source explained until now the issue is handled from a political point of view. The sources pointed the party which has been entrusted with the investigation is currently coordinating with other state organs such as Immigration Administration the Kuwait International Airport and the General Administration of Borders to get some information about the terrorist Mohammed Emwazi. Meanwhile the Al-Qabas daily visited the place where the father of the alleged terrorist Jassem Emwazi works as storekeeper in the Abdali Agricultural Society.

The daily said the father''s salary is KD 300 and reportedly pays an equivalent sum for his apartment in rent. He reportedly said he earns good money in the UK because he has a taxi company which serves the Kuwaiti and GCC citizens who visit the UK for tourism and for medical treatment.

The co-workers said his daughter''s name is Asma. She is an engineer and reportedly failed to become a member of the Kuwait Engineers Society. She also tried in vain to get a job in the public sector and now works for the private sector.

The colleagues also said the father is polite calm God fearing and moderate in his behavior and did not show any signs of extremism. Since last Saturday the father has not reported for work and is said to have asked for leave for an unspecified number of days. Sources said the name of his other son is Omar.

He lives in London but came to Kuwait on a visit visa and is poor in Arabic. Jihadi John allegedly got married in Syria after becoming the most feared executioner of Islamic State a report published by MailOnline revealed Tuesday. According to a family friend the masked butcher is believed to have married since joining the terror group in 2013. It is unclear whether the British intelligence services are aware who his bride is. But once she is identified security chiefs will be desperate to investigate her and her family''s background for clues that could help them locate the feared terrorist.

While living in Kuwait he became engaged to a local woman and found a job as a salesman for a computer software company. Emwazi was banned from re-entering Kuwait in May 2010 after the British authorities raised concerns about his links to extremism.

He claimed this cost him his job and his fiancEe in the Gulf State. A family friend said Emwazi was thought to have married after joining IS in Syria. ''I heard from a few friends that he had gone to fight and when I asked a family member about it she said ''Oh he''s moved to Syria to work and has gotten married'''' he told The Times. A video emerged this week which is believed to show Emwazi ranting on camera shortly after he arrived in Syria from the UK. The footage is of two bands of fanatical fighters joining forces in 2013 under the command of notorious terrorist Omar al- Shishani.

At the front stands a man thought to be Emwazi the west Londoner last week unmasked as the killer of Western hostages in a series of videos which have shocked the world. It was also recently revealed that Emwazi''s mother Ghaneya 47 and father Jasem 51 are now living in Kuwait again and have been questioned by the Kuwaiti security services on Sunday. MailOnline today visited a house in the dusty Kuwaiti suburb of Al-Ayoun said to be linked to the Emwazis. But a Kuwaiti woman who answered the door said she had never heard of the family and insisted she had lived there for many years.

Yesterday it was revealed that Emwazi''s mother screamed out in shock when she realized that her son was Jihadi John after watching a beheading video. Other appalled relatives of Emwazi condemned his actions and said they would welcome his death. A Kuwaiti cousin who would not give his name said: ''We hate him. We hope he will be killed soon. This will be good news for our family.'' New tapes also revealed Tuesday that the killer told MI5 he was a ''moderate Muslim'' as he desperately tried to explain why he had been picked up in terror- plagued east Africa.


Arab Times

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