SYRIA — United States Forces targeted Mohammed Emwazi, AKA “Jihadi John“, in an airstrike in Raqqa, Syria, multiple reports say.
A U.S. drone targeted a vehicle believed to be carrying Emwazi. It’s unclear if he was killed.
“Jihadi John” has appeared in a series of ISIS execution videos, taunting Western leaders in a British accent.
More about “Jihadi John”: A group of his hostages nicknamed him “Jihadi John” since he was part of a four-person terrorist cell with British accents whom they called “The Beatles”
Wiki: Emwazi was born Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri on 17 August 1988 in Kuwait to Jassem and Ghaneyah. The family, who were Bedoon of Iraqi origin,[14] moved to the United Kingdom in 1994 when he was six.
They settled in inner west London, moving between several properties in Maida Vale, later living in St John’s Wood and finally in Queen’s Park. Emwazi attended St Mary Magdalene Church of England primary school, and later Quintin Kynaston School.
In 2006 he went to the University of Westminster, studying Information Systems with Business Management. He secured a lower second-class BSc (Hons) on graduation three years later. At age 21, he worked as a salesman at an IT company in Kuwait and was considered by his boss as the best employee the company ever had.
