Report: British ex-rapper identified as person who beheaded James Foley in ISIS video

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/25/report-british-ex-rapper-identified-as-person-who-beheaded-james-foley-in-isis-video/

A 24-year-old former rapper from London was identified as the person who carried out the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley for the extremist group Islamic State (ISIS), USA Today reported on Monday.

British intelligence officials reportedly identified Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary (pictured above, in red baseball cap) through voice-recognition software. Abdel Bary performed under the names “Lyricist Jinn” or “L Jinny.” Bary wrote on his Facebook page in July 2013, that he was abandoning his music career.

“I have left everything for the sake of Allah,” he wrote. In his final post, written this past March, he complained about an article about himself in the Daily Mail, stating, “Pagan newspapers at it again…smh. You got nothing better to write about or you love me?”


The suspect was also referred to as “Jihadi John” in connection with the Aug. 19 video showing Foley’s beheading. Foley had been missing since November 2012. Bary is believed to be one of about 400 to 500 British nationals who have joined Islamic State.

More at link.

[Vogon_Glory]

1. If true, I hope he gets to let go of a little more.

If true, I hope that "Jihad John" gets to let go of a little more--like his life--when some competent sniper draws a bead on him, and I don't care if the sniper is American, British, Yazidi, Kurdish, Iranian, or just some fed-up Iraqi or Syrian Sunni.

[HipChick]

2. a 1.5M pound home in London is nothig to cheese at..

[reorg]

6. except it's bullshit

For a lazy journalist, and it doesn't seem to make a difference if they are writing for the Sun, the NYP, Rawstory or Alternet, it is apparently immaterial to report the truth of the matter rather than coming up with some idiotic and sensationalist BS. Ah, some rich dude got bored and went abroad to have some fun killing our own good people from the US!!1!

Or did he grow up in a public housing flat with 5 siblings and an unemployed mother, the father in prison fighting extradition since 1999?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=879981

In early songs put online in 2012, Bary makes apparent reference to drug use, violence and life on a council estate and talks about the threat of his family being deported to Egypt.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/james-foley-beheading-london-rapper-turned-jihadist-believed-to-be-under-investigation-for-murder-of-journalist-in-syria-9687216.html

a home in Maida Vale, owned by Westminster Council
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576695/Hip-hop-jihadist-claims-kidnapped-tortured-robbed-fellow-Islamists.html

A Westminster housing chief who accused council tenants of living a champagne lifestyle similar to the “Made in Chelsea brigade” has resigned after an uproar over his remarks.

Conservative cabinet member for housing Jonathan Glanz, has agreed to step down after he said that heavily subsidised rents on local authority properties in central London meant some social housing tenants were living in houses usually only available to people with trust funds.

Writing for Conservative Home earlier this month, the councillor had likened the lives of those living in central London council homes to the “trustafarian” stars of reality show Made in Chelsea “who spend their days dining out and sipping champagne on London’s King’s Road”.

...

Residents had accused the councillor of trying to force the poor out of the West End.

Soho resident Alida Baxter, who is elderly and disabled, said he seemed to be campaigning to get “anyone who isn’t rich” out of central London.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/westminster-housing-chief-loses-job-for-made-in-chelsea-jibe-at-council-tenants-8893753.html

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/apply-for-housing

[hifiguy]

3. There is a cheap, sick little punk

who needs to stop a stray bullet or three with his head. Scumbag.

[JI7]

4. why do all these ISIS guys look like the reject douchebags you always see at Clubs

the ones with lame pick up lines , shiny shirts, ugly jewelry and other shit.

[superpatriotman]

5. Self-deluded narcissist

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