From the Daily Mail:
Nauseating! An odious press conference, apologists for terror and the do-gooders who fund them
Cage held a press conference yesterday to discuss identity of Jihadi John
The group had been in contact with Mohammed Emwazi for three years
Its bosses did not express any regret for failing to prevent his barbarism
Instead, they called him an 'extremely kind' and 'beautiful young man'
By RICHARD PENDLEBURY and STEPHEN WRIGHT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 00:12, 28 February 2015 | UPDATED: 00:46, 28 February 2015
Held at an 'art gallery' near London's Euston station, it was one of the most extraordinary and nauseating press conferences of recent times.
It had been convened at 3pm on Thursday by the 'human rights' organisation Cage following the identification of masked killer Jihadi John as the Kuwaiti-born Londoner Mohammed Emwazi.
For three years, the campaign group had been in close contact with and offered support to Emwazi before he left Britain to fight in Syria in 2012.
But rather than express an apology – or even a smidgen of regret – for having failed to turn him away from the path to barbarism, what we witnessed was almost an hour of excuses, accusation and invective against Britain, British society and the British state.
Broadcast live for 52 minutes on the BBC and 58 on Sky News, the men from Cage described Jihadi John as an 'extremely kind' and 'beautiful young man'.
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For three years Cage had been in contact with and supported Mohammed Emwazi before he escaped to Syria, but rather than offer an apology or regret at a press conference yesterday, they defended him
For three years Cage had been in contact with and supported Mohammed Emwazi before he escaped to Syria, but rather than offer an apology or regret at a press conference yesterday, they defended him
The lachrymose assessment of his character was made by the organisation's 'research director' Asim Qureshi, who spoke uninterrupted for 18 minutes about the iniquities of British policy on the 'war on terror' and the unfair 'harassment' that men such as Jihadi John experience.
The heavily-bearded Qureshi is a very middle-class radical, who lives with his partner in a £500,000 house in suburban Surrey