What Happened To Jihadi John When US Airstrikes Hit Him
It's Jihadi John's turn to get assaulted---though he is reportedly still alive. This murderer of the U.K. and U.S. hostages has been hit by an airstrike during a meeting of the militants in Iraq and reports claim that after getting injured, he was hospitalised.
The Islamic State executioner, Jalman al-Britani with a British accent, is called 'Jihadi John' after The Beatles John Lennon due to his British background---though that is the only common ground they share! The U.K. Foreign Office seems to have got reports that the jihadi, one of the world's most wanted men, was injured one week ago in the town of Al Qaim, Anbar province, near Iraq's border with Syria. He was reportedly wounded when American and Iraqi jets struck him. U.S. airstrikes killed 10 top ISIS commanders at a secret bunker meeting in the town.
However, a British Foreign Office spokeswoman affirmed that though they were aware of the reports, they could not confirm anything, because a number of sources are feeding them information. Without a representative within Syria, they could not confirm the news report, according to rtnews.
Reportedly, the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has also been attacked. However, the information is not complete. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said on Tuesday that the U.S. officials cannot confirm the rumours about whether he was killed or wounded in last week's air strike.
Thought to be British, Jihadi John has purportedly beheaded four U.K. and U.S. hostages. He came at first in a graphic video that showed the beheading of the American photojournalist, James Wright Foley, who was missing since 2012 after being kidnapped in Syria. A subsequent video of American journalist Steven Sotloff, a 31-year-old freelance journalist kidnapped near Aleppo, Syria in Aug. 2013 was also his doing. It was followed by two more British aid workers: David Haines and Alan Henning. In March 2013, Islamic State militants caught 44-year-old Haines in Syria, even as he was employed by the Agency for Technological Cooperation and Development (ACTED).
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, warned during a G20 meet in Australia that "if people travel to Syria or Iraq in order to conduct terror operations against British citizens or people back here in Britain, then they are putting themselves in harm's way and they shouldn't be in any doubt about that," according to timesofmalta.