United States Airstrike Targets 'Jihadi John' From Islamic State Slaying Videos, His Fate Unclear

WASHINGTON Associated Pressaid, A United States drone strike aimed at a automobile in Syria that assumed to be carrying “the masked Islamic State militant” identified as “Jihadi John”, in accordance to American officials.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday, Whether or not the strike murdered the British man who appears in numerous video clips depicting the beheadings of Western hostages wasn’t known.

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement, Mohammed Emwazi appeared to be the aim for of an airstrike in Raqqa.

Officials was evaluating the outcomes of the strike.

A United States official informed The Associated Press that a drone aimed at a vehicle where Emwazi was assumed to be touring.

The official wasn’t authorized to talk publicly and expected anonymity.

Cameron said, officials aren’t certain whether or not a United States drone strike murdered Emwazi. He stated the strike was a combined effort and that British intelligence agencies were definitely working around the clock to discover “the British-accented militant”, whom Cameron labeled the militant groups “lead executioner.”

Cameron also said that the United State’s strike was “an act of self-defense” , and the appropriate issue to do.

He said focusing on Emwazi appeared to be “a strike at the heart” of the Islamic State group.

Emwazi, assumed to be in his mid-twonties, continues to be referred to by a previous hostage like a bloodthirsty psychopath.

This man got off threatening Western hostages.

Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa, who was held in Syria for a lot more than 6 months.

Which was after his abduction in September 2013, said Emwazi explaining specifically how the militants would certainly execute a beheading.

Espinosa said in recalling his months as one of more than 20 hostages
the individuals simply being held by three British-sounding captors nicknamed them “the Beatles” with “Jihadi John”.

A reference to Beatles member John Lennon,

Cameron said Britain continues to be ”working, with the United States, literally around the clock to track him down.”

“This was a combined effort,” he stated. “And the contribution of both our countries was essential.”

Cameron mentioned that “it will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and our allies harm:

We have a long rech, we have unwavering determination and we never forget about our citizens.”

Communicating to reporters in Jerusalem Friday, previous British Prime Minister Tony Blair said, “If these reports are correct and several of those people from ISIS were killed today, I mean these people who were brutalizing, terrorizing, murdering people. Off course it is really important that we take the fight to them and make them realize that they are going to be contested heavily.”

“It is no agreat secret I think it is essential for Britain to play its part in the fight against this hideous extremism that is brutalizing the lives of so many people,” Blair said.

Also saying, “It is important we play our full part alongside America and other allies and so if the UK government wanted to commit Britain to this fight in Syria, where after all ISIS are really headquartered, of course I will be fully supportive of that.”

Among those beheaded by Islamic State militants in video clips submitted online since August 2014, was United State’s journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, United States support worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British support workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

A good friend of Henning claims she is continue to be “skeptical” right after  Information that “Jihadi John” might have been murdered.

Louise Woodward-Styles, who prepared a candlelit vigil intended for the taxi driver immediately after he was caught by the terrorists, said that; regardless if Emwazi was killed, the family of the fourty seven year old wouldn’t get closure adhering to  his brutal murder.

She said, “I don’t think there will be closure, particularly for Alan’s family and close friends”.

“His body wasn’t returned home and from that aspect it was something they had to deal with privately. For them to say that Jihadi John has been killed doesn’t mean anything. It is something that the Government can say they have done successfully.”

She included that she could possibly have expected Emwazi to have already been brought back to the UK to confront justice.

In the video clips, a tall masked body dressed in black and speaking in a British accent, commence one of the nastyest video clips using a political rant and a kneeling a hostage before him.

Then finished it possessing an oversize knife in his hand along with the headless victim laying before him in the sand.

Emwazi was acknowledged as being”Jihadi John” last February.

Although a lawyer who once represented Emwazi’s father informed reporters that there was clearly no evidence promoting the accusation.

Experts and others later verified the identification.

Emwazi appeared to be born in Kuwait and spent portion of his childhood in the very poor Taima area of Jahra before he moved to Britain while still a boy.

In accordance to news allegations quoting Syrian activists that knew the family, He attended state schools in London.

He then learned computer science at the University of Westminster just before leaving for Syria in 2013.

The lady who was the principal at London’s Quintin Kynaston Academy informed the BBC prior this year, said  that Emwazi was a quiet and “reasonably hard-working.”

Officials stated that the Britain’s intelligence community previously had Emwazi on their list of prospective terror suspects for several years, nonetheless they were unable to stop him from going to Syria.

He was well-known to the nation’s intelligence services since at least 2009.

Which was when he was hooked up with investigations in to terrorism in Somalia.

The beheading of Foley and fourty of Rochester, New Hampshire, ended up being deemed by IS to become it’s reaction to Unity States airstrikes.

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