Islamic State has acknowledged the death of the masked militant Mohammed Emwazi, who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of western hostages, the Site Intelligence Group reported on Tuesday.
Site, which monitors terrorist activity, reported that Isis published a “eulogizing profile” of Emwazi in Dabiq, its English-language magazine, on Tuesday.
Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen, was referred to as “Jihadi John”.
“His harshness towards the kuffar [non-believers] was manifested through deeds that enraged all the nations, religions, and factions of kuffar, the entire world bearing witness to this,” the Dabiq article said, according to a translation provided by Site. Dabiq also described him as an “honourable brother” known for his “mercy and generosity” who once gave away a concubine as a gift “to an unmarried injured brother”.
A US 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, another US official said three drones – two US and one British – targeted the vehicle in which Emwazi was believed to be traveling in Raqqa, the capital of Isis’s self-proclaimed caliphate in northern Syria. The official said the US drone fired a Hellfire missile that struck the vehicle.
Enwazi appeared in videos posted online by Isis starting in August 2014 thatdepicted the beheadings of US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
In the gruesome videos, a tall masked figure clad in black and speaking in a British accent typically began with a political rant taunting the west and a kneeling hostage clad in an orange prison-style jumpsuit before him, then ended it holding a knife in his hand with the headless victim lying before him in the sand. The videos don’t make clear if he carried out the actual killings.
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