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Islamic State Magazine Confirms Death Of 'Jihadi John,' Publishes Obituary

January 20 2016

Syria

The Islamic State terrorist group has confirmed the death of the militant known as Jihadi John, reports Fox News.

The U.S. military said in November that Mohammed Emwazi -- a notorious British-sounding man militant who had appeared masked in several execution videos -- had been killed in an airstrike near Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria.

On Tuesday, an obituary was published for Emwazi in Dabiq, the group's English-language magazine, reported the New...

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