A black-clad, masked militant, who has been identified by the Washington Post as a Briton named Mohammed Emwazi, brandishes a knife in this still image captured from a 2014 video obtained from the SITE Intelligence Group Feb. 26, 2015.
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NY – A eulogy for the Islamic State’s most notorious executioner appeared online in the group’s official, English-language magazine on Tuesday, confirming that the militant known as “Jihadi John” was killed in an air strike previous year in northern Syria.
On November 13, Army spokesman Colonel Steve Warren made a statement, saying, “We are reasonably certain that we killed the target that we meant to kill, which is Jihadi John”.
In subsequent videos, he also beheaded American Steven Sotloff, Britons David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. USA officials had previously said an airstrike killed him in Syria in November.
New York Daily News The death of Jihadi John was celebrated in the West, though ISIS rag Dabiq mourned the terrorist’s passing.
The confirmation of his death came as the sister of another Briton believed to have appeared in a more recent Islamic State propaganda video told MPs she believed her brother must have been “brainwashed”.
Dabiq claimed that Emwazi displayed his “kindness and generosity” by giving away a concubine he had received as a gift to an unmarried injured IS fighter.
The statement backs up United States officials who have said they are “99% sure” he was killed in a U.S. strike on a vehicle.
Consistent with ISIS’ revelations, Jihadi John was known to be extremely brutal with several of his former hostages, describing him as a psychopath who would explain in detail to them how their beheadings would be carried out.
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Montage of the nine Paris attackers, which featured in the latest issue of Isis’s Dabiq magazine. Emwazi’s father said his son was a devout Muslim and last spoke with his family in 2013, when he said he was going to Turkey to join a charity in Syria.
