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Breaking: Jihadi John Gone?
Last night, Pentagon Spokesman Peter Cook announced that the United States had assassinated Mohamed Emwazi, aka “Jihadi John,” the Islamic State militant who executed several Western prisoners with a small knife, and whose grizzly YouTube videos made world headlines.
Though the government has not confirmed it, some news outlets report that he was, in fact, killed:
Published in Islamist TerrorismAccording to ABC News, a U.S. official described the attack as a “clean hit” with no harm to others on the ground. He also said that Emwazi, a British citizen, was “eviscerated” upon departing from a building in Raqqa, Syria, before entering a vehicle.
Emwazi, believed to be born in Kuwait, is most recognized from his appearances wearing a black hooded robe in videos depicting the violent executions of Westerners. His videos were narrated in English with a British accent.
If that is the case it is unfortunate. He didn’t deserve a quick death. His should’ve taken weeks.
One Islamist, one bullet.
Let us not forget that this fellow was an immigrant and college educated to boot. This is the exact kind of fellow that the donor class thinks we need to make our country great again. Lazy Americans! He will love freedom once he experiences it first hand and will embrace all of our political and economic freedoms. England won the sweepstakes with this guy but not to worry we have brought in guys like him by the thousands. I mean Jihadi John is exceptional. Most of our new Muslim citizens just want to have sharia (that is where non-Muslims become second class citizens) but draw the line at killing other folks directly. Jihadi John actually followed his scriptures to their logical conclusion. Let’s bring in more. What could go wrong?
Nice hit. The problem is that it demonstrates the weakness of our “policy” when dealing with the Islamic threat. This seems to be an extension of our treating the threat as a law enforcement issue rather than a war of civilizations (if we can refer to any Islamic state as being civilized). This type of operation goes along with the “proportional response” handcuffs which we place on our troops when they engage this enemy. What is called for is not the punishment of this “bad actor” but rather the Dresdenization of the entire caliphate.
He needed to be butchered exactly the way he butchered his victims. However, better to have him gone than to instigate more slaughter.
If he truly was “eviscerated”, it may not have been that quick of a death.
Good riddance.
He is receiving a prolonged death right now, Revelation 21:8.
The inconsistency of our government drives me nuts.
If we can “hit” a bad guy – why not take out hits on all the senior ones as well? I keep wanting the US to offer $10 million cash and American citizenship for the families of anyone who kills a top-10 Iranian government official. Much cheaper than direct military action.
Why kill the pawns and NOT try to kill the rooks and queens?
Indeed! I just wish he had more earthly suffering before the everlasting.
I don’t think the government officials are the problem, I think it is the religious Imams who preach the concurring of the world or else it’s destruction. How about starting with destroying their mosques, the first in Mecca and the second in Medina, and all of them in Iran. Then go from there.
With the success we have in vetting friends, enemies and frenemies, we’ll get a taker who successfully takes out a knight, a rook and three pawns. Ends up, we get a guy who was planning on doing it anyway, as his target didn’t believe strongly enough in the mahdi. So now we have a multi-millionaire citizen SuperTwelver.
“Watch my gun, fellas, I have to go and . . . wait a minute . . . what’s that sound? . . . . . . oh cra-”
“Well, that happened. Not so bad. Now – where are my 72 virgins . . . ah, here they come . . . . . . oh cra-”
Clearly I don’t have access to any more information than the swirl of rumors and spin and clues and conspiracy-theories flying at the speed of light ’round the net, but I’m tempted to say, between this news and this news, that I may have underestimated how much 50 US SOF on the ground can actually get done.
We’ll have a better sense of the whole story in maybe fifty years when the archives are open. (Or if we get another massive Wikileaks dump, which of course as an American I do not hope for, except for the historian part of me, who longs for it). Right now we know bupkis, really, but if he’s dead, I’m not sorry. That said, remember all that excitement about killing bin Laden? What did we learn from that? It doesn’t mean much to kill one high-profile jihadi. It just makes for a pleasant feeling for a day or two. Nothing to sneeze at — we take our pleasures where we can — but nothing to exaggerate, either.
Killing was too good for him. But it’ll do.
Their mosques are beautiful, and some of them are great cultural and historical treasures. No, you want the imams, not the cultural heritage — that belongs to the whole world, just as the roman Ruins of Palmyra do.
How do you like YouTube and Twitter now?
My criticisms of President Obama are varied and intense. However I cling to the idea that no one can be all bad.
Could it be that the Nobel Peace Prize winner is adept at killing high profile individual terrorists?
Any reason why I should not credit him for that? I’m not addressing the effectiveness of it re: the GWOT, only his success at the act itself.
It took the rest of us a couple decades to find the Unabomber and he was here.
They firmly believe that every thing happens as “allah’s” will. If their mosques are destroyed, especially Mecca where they keep the black rock that is so holy, maybe they will get the idea that allah does not want to be here anymore. Or maybe they will get the idea that allah is trying to tell them they are doing something wrong and to change their behavior. Cultural heritage? You’re joking right? It’s a death cult with human sacrifice.
Maybe it is time to do a little tit for tat, as they have no problems destroying artifacts that are thousands of years old. Just get the ones that mean the most to them.
Or we could just isolate this human infection. Johnie was six when he came to England. His parents got him an education and somehow it all went bad. The government of Great Britain should have looked at his parents and said, “I don’t think so” but instead had the brainy idea that maybe Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri could help out with Nigel’s government pension. Somewhere in all that wishful thinking hilarity ensued and several do-gooders found themselves face to face with an angry, sexy, very educated “English” guy with a sword. I am positive there is some Darwinian message coded into this story.
Is the whole world allowed to visit these places prior to conversion?
There are factions within Islam that meet this description, the Islamic State and al Qaeda being the most obvious and the number of people indicating some support for them is truly terrifying.
There are hundreds of millions of Muslims, however, for whom this is not accurate, and I’d challenge anyone doubting this to visit Istanbul. Should we destroy things they revere to punish the monsters.
Sometimes, group punishment is unavoidable or, at least, understandable. But this is the inverse of Genesis 18.
My thoughts precisely, though probably for the best just to be rid of him.
I’m still annoyed that he is called by a Christian euphemism to make it more palatable for media.
He is not a John.
He is Mohammed.
There is, unquestionably, a fanatic quality inherent in Islam, as there, undoubtedly, was in Christianity during its earlier years. We, of European descent, outgrew that lunacy as our civilization advanced. What seems the problem for Islam is that so many of its adherents come from the parts of the world where time seems to have stopped centuries ago, likely around the time their most beautiful architecture was being created. They seemed to have expended their creativity and were left with nothing but their savagery.
That being said, I cannot bring myself to condemn all Muslims, for those I count as friends are as civilized and rational as any other American. They are productive members of our society and want only to live in freedom like the rest of us.
The Istanbul you like is in the process of destroying itself. The strong horse is asserting itself and the moderate Muslim will take his familiar passive position. Foreigners will not be welcome and non Muslims will need to leave or face being second class citizens.
I think you may be lacking in understanding sharia law, especially in Saudi Arabia where Mecca and their black rock is located.
http://chersonandmolschky.com/2014/04/07/support-sharia-law-world/
Why waste ammo and the valuable time of the U.S. military?
If we knew who he was and where he was why could we not capture him? Oh I forgot we’re compelled to close the places we might hold such a person for questioning.
Spare me. Please.
The definition of a great culture is one that can adapt to the present. Muslim culture is increasingly drawing within, isolating itself, and producing children who are unable to assimilate.
The West is paying a dreadful price for this.