US conducts air strike targeting ‘Jihadi’ John

“We are assessing the results of tonight’s operation,” the Pentagon Press Secretary, Peter Cook said. The Pentagon said the air strike took place in Raqa. The 26-year-old British terrorist Mohammed Emwazi, also known as ‘Jihadi’ John, is believed to have left the terror group and gone to Syria, trying to head to North Africa.

“Emwazi, a British citizen, participated in the videos showing the murders of US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and a number of other hostages.” He was identified as the mysterious knife-wielding man in the gruesome ISIS execution videos.

He was dubbed ‘Jihadi’ John by the British press because he was one of four British terrorists whom their prisoners named “the Beatles.”

Known to be a computer science graduate who lived in west London before he left for Syria in 2013, Emwazi had been known to security services and was detained several times.