
A recording has emerged in which the Daesh fighter Mohammed Emwazi denied being an extremist and complained about UK security services, the BBC reported Tuesday.
In the tape, Emwazi, known as "Jihadi John", said MI5 had threatened him and tried to "put words into my mouth".
The tape was made in 2009 by advocacy group Cage after Emwazi was deported from Tanzania and questioned by MI5.
The Kuwait-born Briton is believed to have taken part in the beheadings of Western hostages by Daesh.
In emails and a meeting with Cage, Emwazi said he had arrived in Tanzania for a safari holiday in 2009 but had been refused entry and was put on a flight to Amsterdam, where a British agent accused him of trying to reach Somalia for terrorism training.
Speaking to Cage when he returned to London later that year, Emwazi said: "He [the MI5 officer] looked at me and he said 'I still believe that you're going to Somalia to train'.
"I said 'after what I just told you, after… I told you that what's happening is extremism… you're still suggesting that I'm an extremist?'
"He just started, you know, going on trying to put words into my mouth."
Emwazi said MI5 officers had been "threatening" him and told him: "We're going to keep a close eye on you Mohammed, we already have been."
He said the agent - who called himself Nick - also asked him what he thought of 9/11, the war in Afghanistan and the 7 July attacks in London.
Emwazi replied "innocent people" had been killed in the 7/7 attacks and it was "extremism". He also said what happened on 9/11 was "wrong".
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