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Originally Posted by Livia
My personal feeling is that if the security services had known his identity from the off, then it would have been made public and so taken all the mystery and speculation out of it, which tends to give these things an air of mystery. In any case... if the family have not been a part of this before I feel sure they're now helping with enquiries.
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If it is true that this man had been approached by / watched by MI5 in the past, then honestly I think it's unlikely to the point of bearing nearly impossible that they didn't know - or at least have a very good idea - that he had become "Jihadi John". You're always saying how great these services are at their jobs. If the agents who had approached / watch him didn't realise it was him... Then they're not "great" at all, they are in fact quite unbelievably useless.
If everyone is so sure that his family "must have" recognised him then professionals - trained in observation techniques - who had been examining him previously "must have" recognised him, too. They may well have had their reasons for not releasing his identity but I personally have no doubt that they've pretty much known his identity since the very first video.