Posted on 11/13/2015 6:23:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States targeted British Islamic State leader "Jihadi John" in an air attack in northern Syria which Britain said would "strike at the heart of Islamic State" if the militant's death is confirmed.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the death of Mohammed Emwazi, who was known as Jihadi John after appearing in videos showing the killings of U.S. and British hostages, could not yet be confirmed and the Pentagon said it was still assessing the effectiveness of the strike.
But a U.S. official said Thursday's attack in the town of Raqqa, Islamic State's de facto capital, probably killed Emwazi and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, quoted sources in Raqqa as saying he had been blown to pieces.
"A car carrying four foreign Islamic State leaders, including one British Jihadi was hit by U.S. air strikes right after the governorate building in Raqqa city," Rami Abdulrahman, Director of the UK-based Observatory told Reuters.
He initially quoted sources in Raqqi as saying the body of "an important British Jihadi" was in the town's hospital but later quoted them as saying Emwazi's body, and those of his three militant comrades, had been left in charred pieces.
Emwazi took part in videos showing the murders of U.S. journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and other hostages.
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He went from ISIS to WASWAS. ;-)
I guess burial at sand is like burial at sea, and we’ll just have to take their word for it.
LOL! Great line!
LOL’s - IS to IWAS love it.
Is the Emwazi family still enjoying life on the dole in the UK?
And I’m PROBABLY still attractive. Cannot we wait a few days first to be sure....maybe to lob one more at the funeral party?
I call immature premature optics decisionmakers need a spanking.
Probably means nothing.
Hopefully he’s camel food now.
Welcome to hell Johnny, that’s your fire pit over there next to Mr. Bin Laden.
ROFLMAO!
Apparently he died mercifully fast. It was undeserved - he should have died slowly and painfully.
Obama hates it when people fail him
I saw a news report that had a Pentagon spokesman say they were “99% sure” he was killed in the drone attack. That means to me there is a 99% chance that he is still alive.
Splattered all over the inside of a car...Ha! Ha!
Just taking out the trash...
And the rest of you are going to take the word of the MSM and the White House that this POS has been killed??!
To paraphrase John Vernon in The Outlaw Josey Wales,”I don’t want to hear Jihadi John dead... I want to SEE Jihadi John dead.”
LMAO!!!
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