'Jihadi John' targeted by U.S. airstrike in Syria
- 9 years ago
British Prime Minister David Cameron described the airstrike that may have killed "Jihadi John" in Syria as an act of self-defense as he awaited confirmation that the jeering, sadistic ISIS mouthpiece is dead.
He took part in 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 a number of other hostages, the Pentagon said.
Syrian activists in Raqqa reported that four ISIS foreign fighters, including a leader with British nationality, were killed by coalition airstrike, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
For periods at a time this year, Emwazi was not seen in hostage videos, though U.S. officials told CNN in July that they had learned that he was alive and hiding near Raqqa.
Friends of Emwazi said they believed he started down the road to radicalization when he traveled to the East African nation of Tanzania in 2009, The Washington Post reported this year.
He took part in 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 a number of other hostages, the Pentagon said.
Syrian activists in Raqqa reported that four ISIS foreign fighters, including a leader with British nationality, were killed by coalition airstrike, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
For periods at a time this year, Emwazi was not seen in hostage videos, though U.S. officials told CNN in July that they had learned that he was alive and hiding near Raqqa.
Friends of Emwazi said they believed he started down the road to radicalization when he traveled to the East African nation of Tanzania in 2009, The Washington Post reported this year.