Djelloul Marbrook - This guy is getting more attention in the press than the underlying causes of the Middle East turmoil. The press has kept a constant focus on him, for example, while failing to give us a clue as to what happened to the thousands of troops Jordan moved to its Iraqi border and the implications of that move. There is a reason and it, as usual, money. The press is merely recycling the Jihadi John story, but it would cost the press time and money to inquire into the real reasons for the conflict. All sensationalized journalism is merely a cover for not doing the job the press claims it does. And even in the case of Jihadi John the press hasn’t given us an iota of the insight a novel might give us.
The
man, identified as Mohammed Emwazi, came to the attention of the
authorities in 2009, when they thought he was going to fight with Al
Shabab.
nytimes.com|By STEVEN ERLANGER
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