Homegrown British Jihadists: What makes them tick?

On the Trail of Britain’s Homegrown Jihadists By Alex Perry

Not so long ago, in a land not far away, the British man who would become an icon to a generation of European Islamists fighting and dying in Syria and Iraq sat down before a webcam in his parent’s modest home on England’s south coast and filmed a 90-minute tutorial on how to tie a turban.

The image was badly lit but sharp enough to reveal the figure of a young man with extravagant black hair. To the back and sides it fell in long, thick loops, tumbling onto the upturned collar of a docker’s jacket where it executed a final exuberant ski-jump.