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Little bit rough with him. all of a sudden he decides to head off join isis and become a beheader if you will. what do you make of that interpretation of his motivation? >> i don't buy it at all. i think the police were onto him for a very good reason. he was already radicalized. looks like he was on a safari he was joining the al qaeda affiliate there. i've been talking to somebody who knows the families of the hostages taken by jihadi john. they are saying that he would often force the hostages to watch videos of al shabaab which is sort of quite telling. i don't buy that. i think police wer...

Not just against this organization or that organization but against the whole movement. and that was a consistent theme in the hearing we just had on the aumf that it's not just the legal authority to take military action. you have to have a real strategy that will be effective against this movement. so far, we don't have one. >> aumf is the authorization for the use of military force that's now under consideration in the united states congress. thanks very much for joining us. >> yes, sir. >> the chairman of the house arms services committee. still ahead, we're talking a closer look at the ma...

So i know how important that is. we're continuing to follow the latest developments on a terror story out of the u.k. we're learning now the identity of the man who had been known as jihadi john. u.s. officials tell us his name is mohammed emwazi. he's from west london but was actually born in kuwait. our national security analyst is joining us on the phone right now. what have you learned about him, peter? >> well, he sort of fits the profile of what we'd expect in a

Terrorists. >> i know there have been major u.s. air strikes over iraq and syria, coalition-led air strikes. and there are reports out there now that the u.s. is searching for the leader of isis. maybe they're also searching for this jihadi john as he's called, mohammed emwazi. do you know whether or not these air strikes are specifically targeting these kinds of isis leaders? >> well, if we have specific information about a leader obviously they are targeted. but there are other targets as well. one of our big challenges to go back to my previous point is we have very limited intelligence on ...

To the emwazi they knew. what we don't know about, and this is very important, is why emwazi in the first place got on the radar of the british intelligence services. before 2009 before this cage organization picks up the narrative, and certainly here to the metropolitan police in london they all have that sort of information. but they are refusing at this time to confirm the identity of jihadi john. they say life is still at stake here that they have an ongoing terror investigation. so officially in britain, no confirmation of who he is. >> this profile of emwazi comes from a well to do backg...