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IS Group Confirm Mohammed 'Jihadi John' Emwazi is Dead

  • A masked, black-clad militant,  identified by the Washington Post newspaper as Mohammed Emwazi, brandishes a knife in this still image from a 2014 video.

    A masked, black-clad militant, identified by the Washington Post newspaper as Mohammed Emwazi, brandishes a knife in this still image from a 2014 video. | Photo: Reuters

Published 19 January 2016
Opinion

This is the first confirmation from the extremist group that the militant who was targeted by a U.S.-led airstrikes in November is dead.

The Islamic State group confirmed Tuesday that one of its militants popularly known as “Jihadi John” has been killed in an airstrike in Syria.

The British militant was featured in many of the group’s execution videos and spoke with a clear British English accent. He was later identified by security forces as Kuwait-born British citizen Mohammed Emwazi .

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Emwazi was targeted by a United States-led airstrike on Raqqa, the Islamic State group’s stronghold in Syria, in November. The U.S. said then that it was “99 percent” sure he had been killed, while the extremist group said Emwazi was alive but wounded.

The militant was featured in several beheading videos of Western citizens.

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