alias "Abu Saeed Al-Baritani"
aka "Supermarket Jihadi"
ISIS Fanatic In Video Is U.K.
‘Outcast,’ Says He Saw James Foley Beheaded
Did Jihadi John, the ISIS fanatic who appears in all four videos showing beheaded American and British hostages, just show his unmasked face?
Only U.S. and U.K. authorities, who say they have positively identified the militant, know for sure. But the ISIS fighter in a video rant released around the same time as the latest beheading video has told contacts that he witnessed the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
The ISIS militant in the below video may or may not be Jihadi John, but he has been named as Omar Hussain, the so-called “Supermarket Jihadi,” who earned his nickname because before he ran away from his home in High Wycombe, a large English town of 120,000 about 30 miles northwest of London, he worked as a security guard in a grocery store there.
In the video rant, Hussain refers to U.K. Prime Minister as a “despicable swine,” attempts to goad the United States into sending ground troops to Syria, and implores Muslims living in the West to “rise up” and commit terrorism in their own countries.
Hussain, 27, fled to Syria last December, creating a scandal in the U.K., because his extremist beliefs were already well-known to British authorities and in fact he was arrested trying to board a plane to Turkey in June 2013.
Police raided the house where he lived with his mother and brothers at that time, as well.
But just six months later, he was somehow allowed to leave the country anyway, flying to France — and from there, he is believed to have traveled to Turkey and finally to Syria where he joined ISIS.
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