New York Times: Pentagon Says It Targeted ‘Jihadi John’
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said late Thursday that it had targeted Mohammed Emwazi, a member of the Islamic State often referred to as Jihadi John, in an airstrike near Raqqa, Syria.
Peter Cook, the Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement that the military was “assessing the results” of the strike to determine if Mr. Emwazi had been killed.
Mr. Emwazi, considered the most prominent British member of the militant group, was shown in videos in late 2014 and early 2015 killing several American and other Western hostages.
The British government, along with that of France and other European countries, is grappling with how to stem the tide of thousands of European citizens, including hundreds of Britons, who have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State.
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