Brit spies identified Jihadi John within hours of first ISIS execution video from telltale signs on his knife hand

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Brit spies identified Jihadi John within hours of first ISIS execution video from telltale signs on his knife hand
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JIHADI John was unmasked hours after releasing his first ISIS execution video after British spooks recognised the veins in his knife-wielding hand. Analysts at GCHQ also studied the disguised voice…

JIHADI John was unmasked hours after releasing his first ISIS execution video after British spooks recognised the veins in his knife-wielding hand.

Analysts at GCHQ also studied the disguised voice with wiretap recordings and quickly identified him as Mohammed Emwazi from London.The burial site by the sick British ISIS fighter dubbed Jihadi John is being probed by military and forensics for victim remains: "We had a race to find out who he was — his size, his hands, but, above all, his voice, made identifying him quite easy.

The maniac was then tracked down and killed by a US drone strike in November 2015 in Raqqa, in Syria. He had been walking along a square, which was at the time the capital of the self-styled Caliphate, when a missile blew him to bits.“We found him when he was alone on the street, when he was talking on the cell phone.

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