Jihadi John tells of paranoia at being shadowed by MI5

'I'm a dead man walking': Jihadi John tells of paranoia at being shadowed by MI5 before he went to Syria in bombshell email to Mail On Sunday

• Islamic State killer sent astonishing emails to Mail on Sunday reporter
• Executioner Jihadi John was this week unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi
• The emails were sent to Security Editor Robert Verkaik in 2010 and 2011
• Verkaik corresponded with Emwazi regarding his claims he was victimised
• He claimed he was a 'dead man walking' and MI5 was closing in on him
• They offer remarkable insight into his paranoid and extreme state of mind

• Emwazi was a member of a secret Osama Bin Laden sleeper cell based in Britain called The London Boys, which planned to carry out atrocities in the West;
• He was involved with a violent street gang who targeted the wealthy residents of Belgravia with stun guns;
• Emwazi was arrested trying to force his way past security on to a passenger flight from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Johannesburg without a passport in 2009;
• The IS executioner’s father was a policeman in Kuwait before he moved his family to Britain;
• David Cameron will announce new plans to give spies greater powers to eavesdrop on terror suspects’ electronic communication.

The ISIS killer known as Jihadi John (pictured) claimed he was a 'dead man walking' in emails to a Mail on Sunday journalist

The Islamic State killer known as Jihadi John revealed that he knew British security services were closing in on him and that he was a ‘dead man walking’ in astonishing emails to a Mail on Sunday journalist.

His emails were sent before he left Britain to join Islamic State in Syria.

At the time, Mohammed Emwazi, the man now unmasked as the knife-wielding fanatic, was claiming to be an innocent victim of MI5 persecution.

Emwazi, who would go on to orchestrate at least six hostage murders in Syria, said the harassment affected him so badly he was contemplating suicide. ‘I’ll take as many pills as I can so that I will sleep for ever,’ he warned. His emails to Security Editor Robert Verkaik in December 2010 and 2011 offer a remarkable insight into his state of mind at a time when he was already deeply immersed in extremism.

Some verge on the paranoid, with frequent complaints that his every move is being shadowed by intelligence officers.

The news comes amid a series of revelations that:

• Emwazi was a member of a secret Osama Bin Laden sleeper cell based in Britain called The London Boys, which planned to carry out atrocities in the West;
• He was involved with a violent street gang who targeted the wealthy residents of Belgravia with stun guns;
• Emwazi was arrested trying to force his way past security on to a passenger flight from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Johannesburg without a passport in 2009;
• The IS executioner’s father was a policeman in Kuwait before he moved his family to Britain;
• David Cameron will announce new plans to give spies greater powers to eavesdrop on terror suspects’ electronic communication.

Having advertised his laptop on classified adverts website Gumtree, he went to meet a prospective buyer at Maida Vale underground station near his West London home.

He wrote, ungrammatically: ‘When I sell anything via internet i always only write my surname in the ad... I went to meet that person... so that he could have a look at the laptop & if it satisfied him then he would buy it...

‘That person to my surprise didn’t even bother looking to see of the laptop works or not!!! (when you buy something, from someone you’ve never seen before you most likely would test the product!!)...

‘Anyway, in a matter of seconds, I gave him the laptop (thinking that hes going to test the laptop) & he gave me the money straight-away... We “shacked hands” & he said “nice doing business with you Mohammed”. I NEVER TOLD THIS PERSON MY FIRST NAME!! & I NEVER GIVE OUT MY FIRST NAME!! IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO KNOW MY FIRST NAME!!’

He added: ‘I felt shocked, & paused for a few seconds as he walked away... I knew it was them!! Sometimes i feel like im a dead man walking, not fearing they may kill me.

‘Rather, fearing that one day, I’ll take as many pills as I can so that I can sleep for ever!! I just want to get away from these people!!!’

Shy schoolboy who became world's most wanted fanatic 

Peering over a classmate's shoulder during a game of chess, this is the boy who would become the merciless terrorist butcher Jihadi John.

The image, exclusive to The Mail on Sunday, shows ten-year-old Mohammed Emwazi in his last week at St Mary Magdalene Church of England primary school in Maida Vale, West London.

A former classmate said: 'I was horrified to find out the Mohammed I spent years with was this person.

'I don't know what happened in his life to turn him into this. This was the last week of Year 6 and we were having fun before going our separate ways.'

Mohammed Emwazi, aged ten, peers over a classmate's shoulder in his last week at St Mary Magdalene Church of England primary school, west London

Did he fly the 'flag of jihadis' at Harrow rally celebrating 9/11? 

This is believed to be Jihadi John attending a hate-filled rally outside a mosque where one of the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby gave a speech.

Mohammed Emwazi is said to have attended the demonstration outside the Harrow Central Mosque in North-West London in 2009 to 'celebrate' the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

During the rally, which attracted at least 1,500 people, Michael Adebolajo spoke to the crowd of his contempt for 'unbelievers'. Adebolajo – who is in prison for Rigby's murder – said: 'They are pigs. Allah says they are worse than cattle. Do not be scared of them. And do not turn your back to them. Don't be scared of them, or police, or the cameras.'

Onlookers said they also saw a tall Kuwaiti man, believed to be Emwazi, masked with a scarf, and holding aloft a black flag with the Islamic testimony of faith in Arabic.

The flag is usually associated with extremists and jihadis. 

This photo is believed to be of Emwazi, now known as Jihadi John, flying a 'jihadi' flag outside a mosque

Emwazi claimed the constant harassment wrecked his relationships with women. To illustrate a possible story, he said he would send ‘a picture of one of my past girlfriends, but I must ask her permission’.

It was not forthcoming.

Verkaik recalled: ‘Like many young Muslim men at the time who I had interviewed, he appeared to have a grievance against the police and MI5. But this man was different – in him was a warped sense of injustice that could never justify the barbaric acts of murder that he has gone on to carry out in Syria.’

Details of Emwazi’s remarkable encounter with The Mail on Sunday emerged as it was revealed that he was once part of a terrorist unit tasked by Osama Bin Laden with launching atrocities in Britain.

He was a member of a ‘sleeper’ cell dubbed The London Boys, which included three operatives allegedly trained at an Al Qaeda camp in Somalia. All three were close associates of Emwazi. Until now, Emwazi was thought only to have been a peripheral figure among the capital’s Islamic extremists. Yet a court document seen by this newspaper alleges that he was closely involved in the cell’s activities, including the ‘provision of funds and equipment to Somalia... for terrorism related activity’.

Before his death, Bin Laden sent ‘angry’ messages from his Pakistan hideout urging those returning from training to carry out attacks.

Inevitably, the depth of Emwazi’s involvement in extremism – during a period when he was being monitored by MI5 – will increase pressure on security chiefs, who have faced criticism for failing to stop him joining IS in Syria.

Details of Emwazi’s involvement in the terror cell emerged during a ‘control order’ hearing at the High Court in London in 2011.

Source: the dailymail