This is believed to be the man acting as the Islamic State executioner and shown in ISIS videos beheading hostages.
Jihadi John, the black-hooded ISIS fighter with a British accent, is depicted on video while appearing on Australian news condemning British police during the 2011 riots in London.
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The footage, from Australia’s Channel Nine, shows Abdel Majed Abdel Bary in Tottenham on the first night of the riots, becoming increasingly irate about the behavior of the Metropolitan Police. The 23-year-old rapper can be seen interrupting live interviews with other bystanders. “The police are protecting the police. They are not protecting the people. They are protecting the police,” he tells reporter Peter Stefanovic. h/t westernjournalism
The discovery of this interview coincides with reports that Jihadi John was recently wounded in a joint US-Iraqi airstrike. So far, those sketchy reports are unconfirmed.
