IS acknowledges death of 'Jihadi John' in magazine

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IS acknowledges death of 'Jihadi John' in magazine
By DAVE BRYAN

NEW YORK (AP) — The Islamic State group has acknowledged the death of the masked militant known as "Jihadi John," who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages, the SITE Intelligence Group reported Tuesday.

SITE, which monitors terrorist activity, reported that IS published a "eulogizing profile" of Jihadi John in its English-language magazine Dabiq on Tuesday. Jihadi John had been identified by the U.S. military as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen.

"His harshness towards the kuffar (disbelievers) was manifested through deeds that enraged all the nations, religions, and factions of kufr, the entire world bearing witness to this," the Dabiq article said, according to a translation provided by SITE.

Army Col. Steve Warren, a U.S. military spokesman, said in November that the Army was "reasonably certain" that a drone strike in Syria had killed Emwazi, who spoke in beheading videos with a British accent as he wielded a knife.

Separately, a U.S. official said three drones — two U.S. and one British — targeted the vehicle in which Emwazi was believed to be traveling in Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate in northern Syria. The official said the U.S. drone fired a Hellfire missile that struck the vehicle.

"Jihadi John" appeared in videos posted online by the Islamic State starting in August 2014 that depicted the executions of U.S. journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

Emwazi was believed to be in his mid-20s when he was killed. He had been described by a former hostage as a psychopath who enjoyed threatening his Western captives.

Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa, who was held in Syria for more than six months after his abduction in September 2013, said the Western hostages were held by three British-sounding captors who were nicknamed "the Beatles." ''Jihadi John" was a reference to John Lennon, Espinosa said.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-01-20

[Credo]

A loss that few will mourn.

[stoneyboy]

Good riddance,only a few hundred thousand more to go.

[ezzra]

I wonder what they name their magazine.... The Terrorists monthly

or, The ISIS herald, or, We will kill you soon times?

and their entertainment publications probably be named, wait for it, The rolling heads......

Edited January 19, 2016 by ezzra

[bbbbooboo]

.....the important thing is he is dead and good riddance for sure

[wabothai]

What is "acknowledgement" worth from a bunch of murdering scum?

[OMGImInPattaya]

And to think this "Brit" would have been able to travel to the US visa-free...time to dump the visa waiver program for Eurabian states.

[OMGImInPattaya]

.....the important thing is he is dead and good riddance for sure

I'm sure there are Labour parliamentarians in the UK at this very moment calling for a debate on this anti-muslim action on the part of the United States.

[arjunadawn]

The Dabiq magazine is really only a curious aspect of DAESH media sophistication; the choice of Dabiq for name is revealing though. In islamic end times prophecy this physical location is one of two possible places that the west (Romans) will attack and to which Medina* will respond (with their best fighters**) to usher in the end of days, final battle scenario. See parallels? Its pretty much wholesale eschatological larceny of existing end times prophecies (See Ezk. 38). No longer Meggido and Armageddon, with the islamic conquest of the area the imagery of end times was appropriated by the nascent Islam as the Dabiq and malahim, their own. These people believe islam cannot be fulfilled unless end times conflict is accelerated.

This is who IS/DAESH are. International reporting of "news" from this magazine loans to DAESH a level of legitimacy they have not earned nor deserve. If you rounded up all the muslims who read Dabiq each month you could fit them into just a handful of council benefit lines in the UK or one or two rape ques in Cologne. However, the international media acts as a "force multiplier" for DAESH and projects it's audience and legitimacy globally. No manner of private media could achieve such distribution. Its a slick, clever production but it cannot be said that re broadcasting Dabiq in this way is benign. This most certainly elevates DAESH and emboldens those who seek to end the world. One must ask why the West insists on extending this legitimacy by virtue of condoning the re-broadcasting of their PSYOPS traffic?

* We can pretty much guess this was prophesied after the prophet's expulsion from Mecca but before his return (haven't confirmed). Get it? Islam was kicked out of Mecca. They then "migrated" (Hijra) to Medina. It was during this migration that the valuable lessons of migration/hijra, warfare, defensive/offensive jihad were learned and enshrined into mandate. Within a short time the Medinan's who welcomed the prophet and his evicted followers were themselves overthrown, killed, or forced to convert. Medina then became the seat of islamic power and grew in size relative to Mecca. It would seem right their eschatology justly noted Medina as the place from which the End Times aggression would be responded. Next, they returned to Mecca and slaughtered the city, then turned to the remainder of planet earth.

* See a problem yet? Its clear one can tell what is intended next in current affairs. You see, as it is required to follow the "Black Banners from Khorasan" before the end days it is equally required a great host meet those invaders in Dabiq out of Mecca; DAESH is not in Mecca. You cannot have an end times without a forces consolidating around Dabiq/Raqqa, a caliphate being declared, a caliph and black banners from Khorasan, an international force of #___ nations arrayed against the muslims, possession/control of Medina, etc. For some this ushers in the end of days with regard to the occult mahdi (like the Twelvers). Sunni? Shia? Both have very painful roadmap for what follows.

[MAJIC]

What a shame he couldn't come back for an hour to tell his followers he didn't go to Paradise,and neither did he get his 72 Virgins,it was all lies !

[MAJIC]

And to think this "Brit" would have been able to travel to the US visa-free...time to dump the visa waiver program for Eurabian states.

That's why he wore a Ski Mask !

[SheungWan]

.....the important thing is he is dead and good riddance for sure

I'm sure there are Labour parliamentarians in the UK at this very moment calling for a debate on this anti-muslim action on the part of the United States.

I very much doubt that and the US action was not made as an 'anti-Muslim' action however much you would like to paint it as such. However, Jeremy Corbyn leader of the UK Labour Party did say at the time of original announcement that he was opposed to the drone strike.

[nottocus]

"But what about his human rights?" as the leftists would say.

[connda]

I'm sure he melted like the Wicked Witch of the West leaving naught but a shemagh and a dull knife and has now resumed his day job at GCHQ.