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Daily Mail: How crack SAS team snared Jihadi John with DIY DRONES: Troops snuck deep inside Raqqa and launched 1lb helicopter to pin point British executioner before calling in air strike that wiped him out
* Jihadi John - real name Mohammed Emwazi - was 'evaporated' by airstrike in ISIS's de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria
* An SAS team tracked him down and called in the strike from just five miles outside of the terror group's stronghold
* Eight special forces soldiers 'dug in' outside Raqqa and one assembled four 'nano helicopters' with cameras fitted
* Drones were programmed to fly outside Emwazi's hideout and beamed footage to SAS HQ and US Central Command
A crack team from the SAS tracked down IS executioner Jihadi John and called in the air strike that killed him in Syria, it can be revealed today.
Until now the top-secret operation to eliminate the masked British extremist – who beheaded UK hostages Alan Henning and David Haines – was thought to have been conducted entirely from the air without any Western troops.
But The Mail on Sunday has learned that the perilous plan depended on a team of eight men from the Special Forces regiment risking their lives to penetrate deep inside the IS stronghold of Raqqa.
WNU Editor: This must have been an incredibly dangerous operations. The fact that it was successful tells me that ISIS is vulnerable to these type of operations.
2 comments:
I have always been admired of the S.A.S. since the intervention in the Falklands in 1982
Jihadi John was nothing but a symbol. His death will not affect the war on terror. We will not be any closer to wiping out this death cult.
And the fact that so much effort went to this operation, while the death cult's HQ was situated and left untouched, goes to show that the war on terror is only a war on symbolism...
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