LONDON — The Islamic State executioner with the British accent has been unmasked as a Kuwaiti-born Londoner who grew up in affluence but turned to militancy and barbarism after repeated harassment by security agencies simply because, in his view, he was a Muslim.
The tall man who beheaded hostages in a series of Islamic State videos and earned the name "Jihadi John," was identified by The Washington Post and other news organizations as Mohammed Emwazi, 26, who grew up in west London.
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