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Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary (born in 1990) is a British-Egyptian rapper from West London also known as Lyricist Jinn and L Jinny. He was also part of a rap group known as The Black Triangle. After circulation of video footage related to the decapitation of the American journalist James Foley, the British intelligence has reportedly centered on three suspects who might be the militant individual in the footage dubbed "Jihadi John", putting a knife to Foley's throat and later on boasting his beheading. The main suspect for being the "Jihadi John" is Abdel Bary himself, with the other two being Abu Hussain Al-Britani, 20, a computer hacker from Birmingham, and Abu Abdullah al-Britani, in his twenties from Portsmouth.

Biography

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary is the son of Adel Abdel Bari and of Ragaa. His father Adel Mohammed Abdel Magid Abdel Bari (or Bary), was arrested when the youngster Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was just six. His father was reportedly tortured in Egypt as a suspected radical Islamist. After release, he moved to the United Kingdom where he applied for political asylum with his wife and family. After a very long process of investigation, with possible returning of Adel Abdel Bary to Egypt, he was extradited eventually by the British authorities to the United States in 2012 for suspected involvement in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and for having alleged links and a longtime association with Osama bin Laden and more prominently Ayman al-Zawahiri, current leader of al Qaeda. He is still awaiting trial.

Abdel Bary released a number of recordings about his own predicament as a youth in London. In lyrics for earlier releases online going back to 2012, Bary made apparent references to drug use, violence and life on a council estate and talked about the threat of his family being deported to Egypt. He also appeared in SBTV Warmup Sessions as Lyricist Jinn presenting two live tracks that talked about his experiences. In later songs however, references to cannabis use stopped in his lyrics to be replaced with more radical tirades against people who choose to spend their money clubbing, drinking and on drugs rather than feeding their families.

Known tracks by him include "Overdose" (the only one uploaded to his YouTube channel LJinnyVEVO), "Flying High", "Dreamer" and "The Beginning". Some of his recordings were reportedly picked up on BBC Radio 1. As late as December 1, 2013, music featuring L. Jinny was still being released including the track "My Words" featuring L Jinny on the album More True Talk by Logic & Last Resort.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary was radicalised by Muslim groups in England. His father's legal ordeal and his eventual extradition to the States greatly affected Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and served in radicalising him further. On July 1, 2013, he reportedly announced that he was giving up his musical aspirations for Islam. "I have left everything for the sake of Allah" he said walking out of his family's home in Maida Vale, in Greater London, leaving behind his mother Ragaa and his five siblings. That year, he joined the jihadist opposition forces in Syria for fighting the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad. In March 2014, he had a run-in with rival Free Syrian Army opposition forces claiming in a tweet that he was kidnapped and tortured by them. He eventually joined the even more radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL / ISIS). In June 2014, The Sunday Times revealed a threat made by Bary on Twitter saying: "The lions are coming for you soon you filthy kuffs (infidels). Beheadings in your own backyard soon."

In early August 2014, he posted a photograph of himself holding a man's severed head allegedly taken in Raqqa, Syria, the stronghold of ISIL and declared capital for the ISIL self-proclaimed Islamic State. The caption read: "Chillin' with my homie or what's left of him." The Sunday Times and Sunday People listed Bary as a member of a group of at least three British-born ISIS fighters that guarded foreign hostages in Syria, a group they called "The Beatles" being "John", "George" and "Ringo" because of their British accents. According to The Daily Mail, the suspected executioner in the Foley video is "John the Beatle". A representative of the Scotland Yard told Billboard magazine that the man in the video has not been definitly identified.

See also

• Adel Abdel Bari
• Jihadi John

References

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Category:British rappers Category:1990 births Category:Egyptian emigrants to the United Kingdom Category:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members