Jihadi John, the Briton who beheaded two British and two
American hostages held by Islamic State terrorists, has been injured in a
US-led air strike, according to reports received by the Foreign Office.
The masked ‘executioner’ with a London accent is believed to
have narrowly escaped death when he attended a summit of the group’s leaders in
an Iraqi town close to the Syrian border last Saturday.
The meeting was targeted by American and Iraqi jets.
‘We are aware of reports that this individual [Jihadi John]
has been injured, and we are looking into them,’ a Foreign Office spokesman
told The Mail on Sunday.
This newspaper has received an independent account of how
Jihadi John was injured and rushed to hospital after a devastating air strike
in Al Qaim, in Anbar Province, Western Iraq.
The Foreign Office spokesman added: ‘We have a number of
sources of information coming in.
‘The incident occurred last weekend, and so we have received
the reports in the last few days. We don’t have any representation inside
Syria, and so it is difficult to confirm these reports.’
According to our source, a nurse who treated the wounded in a hospital in
Deir-ez-Zour, confirmed that one of the names on the injured list was Jalman,
saying it was ‘the one who slaughtered the journalists’.
It is not clear how seriously the British fanatic was hurt,
but the source said that both he and Al-Baghdadi were rushed to the Al Qaim
General Hospital for treatment.
IS members issued urgent calls through the local mosque’s
loudspeakers, appealing for the town’s residents to donate blood at the
hospital.
Our source, who does not want to be identified for his own
safety, added that Jihadi John, Al-Baghdadi and the other wounded IS personnel
were then driven to Syria, and travelling 200 miles north along the Euphrates
valley to the IS stronghold of Raqqa.
The injured were taken to two captured Syrian army barracks
near the city in the hope that underground medical facilities there would
provide protection against further air strikes.
The source said that hospitals in Raqqa and nearby
Deir-ez-Zour were ordered to take their medical supplies and staff to the
secure bases, once the HQs of the Assad regime’s 17th Division and 93rd
Brigade.
Muhammad Nasser Delli, an MP for Anbar province, told The Mail on Sunday that
local residents confirmed to him that they saw Al-Baghdadi being treated at Al
Qaim.
He said: ‘A number of people saw him there, but he did not
stay at the hospital long. There were lots of women and children that were
killed on Saturday during the air strikes.’
The Iraqi intelligence paper also states that Al-Baghdadi
was taken to Al Qaim hospital, before being driven to Syria.
It lists 16 IS leaders as having been killed in the attack,
and nine injured.
Among the dead are Abu Huzaifa Al-Adnany, a security guard
to Al-Baghdadi, and Abu Quatayba, the cleric of Al Furat wilaya, who would sit
in the same shura council as Jihadi John.
Also dead is a prominent IS fighter from
Chechnya called Abu Abdul Rahman Al-Shishani, says the document.
Via.daily mail.
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