(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY March 2 (Agencies): The Kuwait-born British man and member of the Islamic State or the socalled DAESH Mohammed Emwazi who is seen on video footage beheading hostages worked in Kuwait in 2010 as salesman for a computer company reports Al- Rai daily. The daily added his salary was KD 300 in addition to KD 50 transport allowance and five percent commission on sales.
According to the company official where Emwazi was employed he worked for three months on a probationary period and left for London on five days emergency leave on April 25 2010 but did not return for unknown reasons. He added Emwazi came to Kuwait on a visit visa and the company was in the process of obtaining for him a work permit but that did not happen since he left for London and did not return. It is worth mentioning that the British authorities had warned Kuwait against issuing him a work permit. The official who declined to give his name or disclose the name of the company where he worked said Emwazi told him before his departure that he has family problems between his father and mother. After he left he returned the SIM card which belonged to the company. He described Emwazi as ''the best employee in the history of the company. He described the man as calm polite and committed always very serious did not smile or talk much. The official explained he was surprised because Emwazi accepted to work for a relatively low pay in spite of the fact he holds a degree in computer programming from the Westminster University. He also expressed his surprise that someone like him can actually appear in videos slaying five Western hostages and two Japanese. Colonel Fahd Al-Shlimi said what has been published by ''The Sun'' and ''Daily Mail'' newspapers is nothing more than an analysis of the situation and an assessment of the issue and doesn''t stem from knowing the person or his family. Al-Shlimi said when he was asked by a newspaper reporter if the father of Mohammed Emwazi worked in the police force he said his reply was ''may be'' because a lot of bedoun were employed by the army and the police before Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. He also told the reporter some of them did not return to work for security reasons and that he may be one of them but that he did not know the man in person. Al-Shlimi added when the reporter asked him for his opinion about the extremist ideas of Emwazi he said the boy left Kuwait in 1993 and all the while studied in the UK in schools and universities and told the reporter that he should look for answers to his questions in the UK. Al-Shlimi continued saying he told the reporter that this is a repeated failure on the part of the British intelligence which was not even aware that three young British ''women'' had left for Syria and then moved to the areas where fighting continues. So they must look for questions on extremism in their country and not here in Kuwait. These three women never lived in Kuwait. As for security measures Al-Shlimi said the Kuwaiti security authorities are working on the issue with utmost confidentiality and conducting investigations taking into account the privacy of the families especially the family of the young man. The family should not be carry the ''guilty'' label for the crimes of their son. Meanwhile the Al-Qabas daily said Mohammed''s father Abdulkarim Emwazi has been interrogated by the security authorities and that the family home in Al-Oyoun in Jahra was turned into a gathering place for those who look for new developments. According to a knowledgeable source the father during interrogations was quoted as saying the mother had identified the voice of her son when he beheaded the first American hostage and also the father when he saw the video the second time. The daily said the mother doesn''t hold the British citizenship and is still considered a bedoun just like all other members of the family. Interrogations have revealed that the father works at a cooperative society and the sister is an engineer in one of the private sector companies. The father said he worked in police force from 1989 to 1993 and left for Britain when in 1993 he lost all hopes of being naturalized and got the British nationality in 2002. He returned to Kuwait in 2003. Emwazi was a member of a network in contact with one of the men convicted of trying to bomb the British capital''s underground railway in 2005 according to the government. The man dubbed by British media ''Jihadi John'' has fronted Islamic State videos from Syria that showed either the killing or bodies of victims including British US and Japanese citizens and Syrian soldiers. US security sources last week identified the man who appeared clad in black and brandishing a knife as Mohammed Emwazi. The British government''s view is set out in court papers reviewed by Reuters and publicly available on the Internet which refer to 2011 and 2013 British legal hearings concerning two of Emwazi''s London associates known only as Iranian-born ''CE'' and Ethiopian-born ''J1.'' The court papers reported in the Observer and Sunday Telegraph newspapers offer a fleeting glimpse of Emwazi''s life in London before he left for Syria. They show that Emwazi was known to Britain''s security services as early as 2011 and that they believed he was part of a group involved in procuring funds and equipment ''for terrorism-related purposes'' in Somalia. They show that authorities thought Emwazi was part of a network that numbered at least 12 people. One of the same network''s members ''J1'' spoke on the phone with Hussain Osman one of the men convicted in connection with an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the London underground in 2005 on the day of the failed attack itself the papers show. British Islamists killed 52 people in an attack on London''s transport network on July 7 2005. Another group of Islamists of which Osman was one tried and failed to pull off a second attack two weeks later. Osman who like ''J1'' was also born in Ethiopia was convicted by a London court of conspiracy to murder in 2007 and sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in prison. The same documents show that ''J1'' Emwazi''s associate was stopped by police in Scotland in 2004 with three others wearing plastic gloves. The men said they were on their way to an area where the authorities said an extremist training camp was being held. The camp''s organiser a man identified in court papers only as Hamid was subsequently convicted of soliciting to murder and of providing terrorism training. Four of the men involved in the failed London bombings had attended a similar camp organised by Hamid earlier that same year the court papers said. The 2011 court papers pertained to a case between the British government and ''CE'' over the authorities'' decision to relocate him outside London as a preventative measure. The 2013 papers referred to an immigration appeal case between the British government and ''J1.'' The legal documents came to public attention as a political row over the way Britain handles militants broke out with the opposition Labour Party accusing Prime Minister David Cameron''s government of ''tying the hands'' of security services with insufficiently robust legislation. Separately a dispute flared between Cameron''s Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats their junior coalition partners over what guidance should be given to universities to prevent militant preachers spreading their message. The Liberal Democrats said they wanted to ensure that only people known to be inciting violence rather than advocating Islamic caliphates were prevented from debating.
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