Islamic State confirms ‘Jihadi John’ is dead

The statement backs up U.S. officials who have said they are “99% sure” he was killed in a United States strike on a auto.

US officials had said they were “reasonably certain” Emwazi, a Briton who grew up in London before traveling to Syria, had been killed in the November 12 airstrike in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. The vehicle he was in was targeted by drones.

Emwazi also is believed to have played a role in the beheadings of American journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British volunteer Alan Henning, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. “We struck it right after with zero collateral damage”, a counter-terrorism official told ABC News past year.

Muslim men living in the US and Europe should be ashamed for not having her bravery, Dabiq said, according to multiple media reports.

Incidentally, jihadi John was killed just a day before ISIS carried out the deadly attacks in Paris, which left 130 people dead.

Emwazi, 27, was known as the executioner of the IS appearing masked in a string of videos showing the beheadings of Western hostages.

Emwazi was believed to be in his mid-20s when he was killed.

Emwazi has been described by a former hostage as a bloodthirsty psychopath who enjoyed threatening Western hostages.

Earlier this month, a British-sounding militant appeared in a chilling propaganda video from ISIS. “Although Emwazi was born in Kuwait in August 1988, his family are so-called “stateless” southern Iraqi immigrants, many of whom were deported after Kuwait was liberated from Saddam Hussein in 1991″. According to Fox News, “The BBC reported that Emwazi attended Quintin Kynaston Academy in northwest London and in 2009 graduated from University of Westminster with a degree in computers”.

It appears in the latest edition of the magazine Dabiq.

The SITE intelligence monitoring website says Islamic State eulogized the killer in its English language magazine. Distributed online as a.pdf file, it has a professional layout, including photos and graphics, giving it the appearance of a glossy magazine.