The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree people say and, in this case, the old saying couldn’t be more true. 

The father of the jihadist who allegedly beheaded American journalist James Foley in a video released by the terror group Islamic State last week is accused of murdering 224 people and has a long history of terror involvement.

British spy agencies MI5 and MI6 suspect that 23-year-old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary could be the man who murdered James Foley, according to media reports. And their suspicions are further raised by the fact that the young man has expressed the wish to follow in his father’s footsteps.

Adel Abdel Bari, the father of the alleged executioner, is currently awaiting trial in New York for the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in which 224 people died, according to an article published by the Daily Mail. Bari’s history of terror activities dates back to the days before his son was born.

He was imprisoned in Egypt following the murder of President Anwar Sadat in 1981. After years of going in and out of prison in Egypt, during which he managed to gain a degree and become a respected human rights lawyer with ties to Amnesty International, Bari managed to leave the country. In 1991, the year Bary was born, he applied for political asylum in Britain. His family joined him after it was granted, two years later.

In 1995, he was sentenced to death in absentia for a plot to blow up a market in Cairo’s bazaar district. In a separate Egyptian trial in 1999 he was also sentenced to life in prison.

Videos posted to YouTube show Bary, who used the names Lyricist Jinn and L Jinny, praising his father in rap.

‘Give me the pride and the honor like my father, I swear the day they came and took my dad, I could have killed a cop or two,” he says in his lyrics. And this is yet another example of his disturbing lyrics: ‘Imagine then I was only six. Picture what I’d do now with a loaded stick. Like boom bang fine, I’m wishing you were dead. Violate my brothers and I’m filling you with lead.’
Adel Abdel Bari, 54, is now locked up in New York awaiting trial for the bombing of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It should be noted that he was held in custody in Britain for 14 years before his extradition in October 2012.