US drone strike targets ISIL executioner known as 'Jihadi John'

  • 9 years ago
The US has carried out a drone strike against the ISIL executioner
known as ‘Jihadi John.’
Monitoring group quotes sources in Raqqa saying “Jihadi John” was blown to pieces in strike: https://t.co/CPtEyVgezL pic.twitter.com/hGyj3J0654— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 13, 2015

The Pentagon is ‘reasonably certain’ Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti born British militant, was killed in the attack.

US Secretary of State John Kerry had this to say: “The terrorists associated with Daesh(ISIL) need to know this: your days are numbered and you will be defeated. There is no future, no path forward for Daesh which does not lead ultimately to its destruction.”

British Prime Minster David Cameron said Britain and the US have been working together to track down the killer :
“Emwazi is a barbaric murderer. He was shown in those sickening videos of the beheading of British aid workers. He posed an ongoing and serious threat to innocent civilians, not only in Syria, but around the world and in t

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