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Breaking: US Forces “99% Sure” They Just Dealt A Giant Blow To ISIS’ Most Notorious Killer
America finally got the ISIS executioner known as “Jihadi John” in its cross-hairs and pulled the trigger, U.S. officials said Friday.
“We are 99 percent sure we got him,” a senior U.S. military official told Fox News. “Jihadi John,” a British citizen who turned against the West, became infamous for his appearances in ISIS videos that showed Western hostages being beheaded.
A drone was used in the airstrike, according to an official who briefed Fox News. The drone tracked the notorious murderer, also known as Mohamed Emwazi, for most of Thursday. When Emwazi came out of a building in Raqqa, he was “ID’d and engaged,” the source told Fox News.
The Daily Telegraph reported that a car carrying four foreign ISIS leaders, one of them British, was hit in one of a series of American air strikes in Raqqa. Britain’s Sky News initially reported Emwazi may have survived the initial attack, but was taken to a hospital sealed off by ISIS, a tactic that allows ISIS to rebut claims of its leaders being killed.
“All the sources there (at the hospital) are saying that the body of an important British jihadi is lying in the hospital of Raqqa,” said a representative of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “All the sources are saying it is of Jihadi John.”
Early Friday, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the attack was “a strike at the heart” of ISIS.
Calling ISIS an “evil terrorist death cult,” Cameron defended the decision to target as “an act of self-defense” and “the right thing to do.”
“We have been working, with the United States, literally around the clock to track him down,” Cameron said. “This was a combined effort, and the contribution of both our countries was essential. Emwazi is a barbaric murderer.”
The attack “will demonstrate to those who would do Britain, our people and our allies harm: We have a long reach, we have unwavering determination and we never forget about our citizens.”
h/t: Fox News
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-us-forces-99-sure-they-just-dealt-a-giant-blow-to-isis-most-notorious-killer/
