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What do we still not know about Mohammed Emwazi?
The identity of masked Islamic State militant “Jihadi John” was revealed on Thursday. But what we have since learnt about Mohammed Emwazi throws up as many questions as answers.
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Security services and the road to radicalisation
It has been commented on that – like the Woolwich killers the British security services had a file on Mohammed Emwazi. Here, Channel 4 News Africa reporter Jamal Osman describes his own experiences.
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How west London became an extremism hotbed
Mohammed Emwazi grew up in Shepherd’s Bush and Queen’s Park, areas of north west London that have had a long and uncomfortable history of radical extremism. Channel 4 News looks back.
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Soon on sale in your country: US armed drones
The US is to export armed drones to sell to its military allies around the world, a move that has been welcomed by the arms industry but provoked outrage among human rights campaigners.
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Lars Vilks: the artist with the target painted on his back
Lars Vilks escaped unhurt from a shooting at a Copenhagen cafe yesterday. It is the latest in a string of alleged attempts on his life after he published sketches of the prophet Mohammed.
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Is the US overseeing torture in Somalia?
An exclusive report on allegations the CIA has been working closely with Somali forces in the interrogation and torture of suspected al-Shabaab members – the militant group linked to al-Qaeda.
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Kenya bus attack: ‘non-Muslims singled out and shot’
The Islamist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for killing 28 non-Muslims on a bus in Kenya. Witnesses said the gunmen spared Muslim passengers but ordered the rest off the bus to their death.
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Curiouser and curiouser: the hunt for the white widow
With reported sightings in three continents in a matter of months, the story of Samantha Lewthwaite – the widow of 7/7 London bomber Germaine Lindsay – is becoming absurd.
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US warns of Uganda terror threat
The US government has warned its citizens in Uganda that an attack could take place at Entebbe International Airport.
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Who should govern Somalia: Somalis or the UN?
Al-Shabaab’s attack on Kenya over the past two nights, in which more than 60 were killed, shows the group still poses serious threat to the region’s stability, writes Jamal Osman.
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At least 48 dead after militants attack Kenyan coast
The Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab says it carried out an attack on the Kenyan coast which left at least 48 people dead. Militants opened fire as football fans gathered to watch the World Cup.
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Is Djibouti al-Qaeda’s new front?
On Saturday, suspected suicide bombers struck a restaurant popular with westerners in Djibouti. Three people died and more than a dozen were injured, including European nationals.
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Nairobi bomb blasts kill at least 10 as Britons fly home
At least 10 people are killed and 70 injured in two explosions in the Kenyan capital, as Britons leave the country after a Foreign Office warning about “a high threat of terrorism”.
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The ‘terror mastermind’ who was educated in Wales
Nigeria is seeking the urgent extradition from Sudan of a Boko Haram terror suspect born and educated – and reportedly radicalised – in Britain, Jonathan Miller reports from Abuja.
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When will security services stop harassing Jamal Osman?
In 10 years only one of our journalists has been stopped at Heathrow and questioned but it happens virtually every time he goes through the airport, writes Channel 4 News Editor Ben de Pear.