Harf Heartbreak: "Jihadi John" Not In Need Of A Jobs Program

State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf famously suggested the long term answer to stopping people from joining groups like ISIS is job training.

The terrorist known as "Jihadi John" who served as "host" for several brutal ISIS videos seems like a bright, though evil, guy. If a guy like him can't get a job in the racist west, surely other terrorists wannabees can't.

Whelp.

Investigators believe that the "Jihadi John" masked fighter who fronted Islamic State beheading videos is a British man named Mohammed Emwazi, two U.S. government sources said on Thursday.

He was born in Kuwait and comes from a prosperous family in London, where he grew up and graduated with a computer programming degree, according to the Washington Post.

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The Post quoted the friends of Emwazi, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as saying they thought he had started to become radicalized after a planned safari in Tanzania following his graduation from the University of Westminster in London.

Sounds like a hardknock life that could drive anyone to beheading innocent aid workers, Christians and anyone who has the misfortune of being randomly in their sights.

You won't be surprised to find that this university seems to have had more than a few random brushes with Islamic radicals.

Perhaps they need to consider beefing up their alumni job placement services.

posted by DrewM. at 11:07 AM

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