article_snippet: The 26-year-old, who has been named as Mohammed Emwazi, a university graduate from Queen's Park, London, was able to flee to Syria despite being on an MI5 watchlist and being monitored by Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command.
article_snippet: Emwazi has been on the radar of MI5 since May 2009, when Emwazi is thought he tried to reach Somalia to join Islamist terror group al-Shabaab.
article_snippet: he was stopped with two associates in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, where he told officials officials were en route to a safari.
article_snippet: Lee Rigby's killer Michael Adebolajo was picked up by the SAS and MI5 in similar fashion as he tried to enter the east African country in November 2010.
article_snippet: Emwazi, pictured, has been on the radar of MI5 MI5 since May 2009, when it is thought he tried to reach Somalia to join Islamist terror group al-Shabaab .
article_snippet: After being detained by police and held overnight and deported, Emwazi flew to Amsterdam, before being returned to the UK.
article_snippet: Emwazi claimed that an officer from MI5 accused Emwazi of trying to reach Somalia and that an officer from MI5 accused him of trying to reach Somalia and that they even tried to recruit him to join the organisation even tried to recruit Emwazi to join the organisation.
article_snippet: In June 2010, Emwazi was detained by counter-terrorism officials in Britain who fingerprinted Emwazi and searching Emwazi belongings.
article_snippet: But after managing to leave Britain for Syria, Emwazi has gained global notoriety as the masked killer of Western hostages including British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines in ISIS beheading videos which have shocked the world.
article_snippet: Mr Emwazi, who moved to the UK from his native Kuwait in 1994 and holds a British passport, was seen in public for the first time today since his was questioned by Kuwaiti police at the weekend about his 's activities.
highlights_snippet: Mohammed Emwazi then continued Mohammed Emwazi journey to Syria so Mohammed Emwazi could join up with ISIS .
  