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By Lee Min-hyung
The masked Islamic State (IS) executioner, better known as "Jihadi John," has been named, according to the BBC.
The executioner is identified as Kuwaiti-born British man Mohammed Emwazi, 27, who first appeared in a video where he apparently executed U.S. journalist James Foley.
Emwazi spoke with a British accent, and is infamous for jeering at Western forces before beheading hostages.
He is thought to have been involved also in the beheadings of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British taxi driver Alan Henning and American aid worker Abdue-Rahman Kassig, the BBC reported Thursday. He was also caught in a video this month when Japanese journalist Kenji Goto was beheaded.
Emwazi was brought to London at the age of 6 and was raised like any British child, playing football in the streets of West London. His friends described him as football-mad.
In 2009, he completed studying computing at University of Westminster. He is believed to have gone to Syria in 2013 to join the IS.
