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(07-28-2015 01:01 AM)iknowexactly Wrote:  

Man I hope it doesn't take ten years to get that murdering piece of shit.

Nope.

'Jihadi John' targeted by U.S. drone strike in Syria

CNN)He hid his face, but "Jihadi John" was the English-speaking voice of ISIS. His twisted, videotaped taunts and acts of terrible cruelty -- beheading hostages who had gone to the Middle East to help others and report stories to the world -- symbolized the Islamist militant group's depravity and ruthlessness.

Not anymore, it appears.

In announcing a drone strike late Thursday night, the Pentagon did not say definitively that Mohammed Emwazi had been killed. But officials expressed confidence he is dead.

The United States had been tracking him closely since Wednesday, and Thursday he was seen leaving a building and getting into a car, U.S. officials said. Three drones went after that vehicle, which may have contained another person, and two missiles were fired.

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a Syrian activist group, said a missile hit Emwazi's car directly at 11:51 p.m. (4:51 p.m. ET) in front of an ISIS court in Raqqa. Citing a source in the de facto Syrian capital, the same group said that ISIS militants then ringed that vehicle and two others that had been struck to prevent anyone from getting closer.

Speaking hours later on Friday, British Prime Minister David Cameron cast the airstrike as an act of self-defense. If it is confirmed Emwazi is dead, "it will strike at the heart of ISIS," said Cameron, whose government worked with their U.S. colleagues ahead of the strike.

"We always said we will do whatever is necessary to track down Emwazi and stop him taking the lives of others," he said.

But there was no joy or sense of victory from Louise Woodward-Styles. Her friend, British aid worker David Haines, was among the hostages whose beheading videos featured Emwazi. Others included American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid worker David Haines and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

"There's just sadness," Woodward-Styles said. "It reminds you of the loss of Alan and just hoping it's closure for the family. But also I hope it reminds people that the issue of Syria is still ongoing, and not to forget the reasons why Alan was there."

As to Emwazi himself, Woodward-Styles added, "I don't think he deserves the attention that his apparent death is causing. I think he was a coward."