ISIS executioner ‘Jihadi John’ — the British-accented terrorist believed to have beheaded two Americans and two British hostages — is injured.
The terrorist from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was reportedly injured a week ago in a U.S.-led air strike on a secret bunker in Iraq’s Anbar Province near Syria’s border.
Top ISIS leaders met with Iraqi and Syrian tribal chiefs at the bunker under a private home to pledge allegiance to ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last Saturday (Nov. 9), the Daily Mail reported.
The British Foreign Office, quoted as a source for the report, issued a neutral statement of its own as well.
“We are aware of reports,” the Foreign Office said. “We cannot confirm these reports.”
Al-Baghdadi also was reportedly injured in the attack, carried out by American and Iraqi jets. Approximately 10 ISIS leaders were killed and 40 others were reportedly wounded in the attack, which destroyed the bunker.
Both al- Baghdadi and Jihadi John — also known as Jalman al-Britani — were rushed to Al Qaim General Hospital before they were driven 200 miles to ISIS headquarters in Raqqa, Syria. A nurse at the hospital allegedly told the Mail that Jalman — “the one who slaughtered the journalists” — was on the list of wounded being treated after the strike.
Al-Baghdadi produced and released a 17-minute audio tape last week after the weekened attack to stifle rumors he had been killed.
In the Sinai Peninsula, the Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis terror group swore allegiance to ISIS several weeks ago. At the end of August 2014, the Sinai terror group beheaded four locals whom they accused of collaborating with Israel.