article_snippet.sent: Emwazi became convinced al-Shabaab had been infiltrated by Western spies after friends Bilal al-Berjawi (pictured) and Mohammed Sakr were killed .
article_snippet.sent: friends Bilal al-Berjawi referred to are likely to be Bilal al-Berjawi and Mohammed Sakr, two members of the 'London Boys' gang of extremists that grew up with Emwazi in Maida Vale, north west London.
article_snippet.sent: Bilal al-Berjawi passed through UK Border Control at least five times between 2006 and 2009 as Bilal al-Berjawi travelled between London and African terror cells, and helped to radicalise Emwazi while in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Three years ago Bilal al-Berjawi was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Somalia, and according to Ayman, Emwazi was convinced that Bilal al-Berjawi location had been given to the Americans by fellow members of al-Shabaab during an internal power struggle.
article_snippet.sent: Emwazi also believed that another friend, Mohammed Sakr, who at one time had lived next door to Bilal al-Berjawi, was also betrayed to Bilal al-Berjawi death after Bilal al-Berjawi was killed in February 2012, also in Somalia.
article_snippet.sent: They had claimed to be going on a wildlife safari, but were sent back to the Netherlands by security forced, where Emwazi later claimed Bilal al-Berjawi was questioned by an MI5 agent who tried to recruit Bilal al-Berjawi.
article_snippet.sent: Bilal al-Berjawi and Sakr were also detained in Kenya around the same time, but later returned to Africa and were able to make it to Somalia, where Al-Berjawi and Sakr joined the fighting.
highlights_snippet.sent: Bilal al-Berjawi and Mohammed Sakr died during drone strikes in 2012 .
  