The Islamic State (ISIS) militant dubbed “Jihadi John”, who featured prominently in the organization’s propaganda videos killing Western hostages, has been confirmed dead by the group’s media outlet.
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This image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State and identified by SITE Intelligence Group on September 2 2014 purportedly shows “Jihadi John”, the pseudonym of Mohammed Emwazi, holding a knife as he speaks to the camera in a desert landscape before beheading 31-year-old U.S. freelance writer Steven Sotloff.
US officials had said they were “reasonably certain” Emwazi, a Briton who grew up in London before traveling to Syria, had been killed in the November 12 airstrike in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.
Aside from his death, the ISIS militants also described Emwazi’s “harshness” towards the disbelievers of the caliphate. Their full names remain unknown and no other information has been revealed.
“It’s good. I’m glad that he’s gone, but it doesn’t bring back my son.”
Emwazi, a computer programmer from London, was born in Kuwait to a stateless family of Iraqi origin.
As an example of his good-heartedness, Dabiq cited the time “Jihadi John” was gifted with a “concubine” – otherwise known as a sex slave – and graciously passed the woman on to an unmarried brother.
Those being held by three British-sounding captors nicknamed them “the Beatles” with “Jihadi John” a reference to Beatles member John Lennon, Espinosa said in recalling his months as one of more than 20 hostages. He completed computing degree at the University of Westminster in 2009.
ISIS’ “Jihadi John” is no more and this has been confirmed by the terrorist organisation itself.
It appears in the latest edition of the magazine Dabiq.
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In a report by The Guardian, IS published a eulogizing profile of Emwazi in their English-language magazine called Dabiq.
