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'Jihadi John' Revealed To Be Middle-Class Brit

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Intelligence agents now say the man shown in ISIS videos apparently beheading American journalist James Foley last summer is a Kuwaiti-born, college-educated Londoner in his mid-20s named Mohammed Emwazi.

Emwazi has been in Syria since 2012, and he reportedly became radicalized on a trip to Tanzania during which he was detained and questioned by police.

Barney Henderson has been covering the story for The Telegraph and joins Here & Now's Robin Young with details.

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This segment aired on February 26, 2015.

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