'Jihadi John' was 'best employee we ever had', says his former boss

The former boss of the Briton identified in reports as the Islamic State killer “Jihadi John” has said he was “the best employee we ever had”. Mohammed Emwazi was “very good with people” and was “calm and decent”, according to the head of an IT firm in Kuwait, which hired the then 21-year-old as a salesman. He also expressed shock the person he had known was behind the reign of terror in the IS videos. Emwazi, 26, is believed to have murdered at least five Western hostages, including Britons Alan Henning and David Haines.

He was the best employee we ever had. He was very good with people. Calm and decent. How could someone as calm and quiet as him become like the man who we saw on the news?

Former boss of Mohammed Emwazi

Emwazi left the company suddenly in April 2010 after returning to London. His former employer’s assessment comes amid reports that Emwazi was a member of a network in contact with one of the men convicted of trying to bomb the London underground in 2005, according to the government. Meanwhile, divisions have opened up between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats over whether radical preachers should be banned from university campuses. The conservatives are keen to ban ‘extremist’ views but the Lib Dems have said the very definition of extremism is “very nebulous” and said there was a danger clamping down on controversial speakers could force them underground.

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