Turkey- US hit 'Jihadi John' based on Turkish intelligence: Reports
Date
11/17/2015 7:11:03 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The United States and Britain hit the British leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) “Jihadi John” based on intelligence shared by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MT) reports have claimed.
Kuwaiti-born Briton Mohammed Emwazi perceived as ISIL’s “lead executioner” was “reasonably certainly” killed in a joint drone strike by the U.S. and Britain on Nov. 13.
Meanwhile recent reports revealed that Turkey shared intelligence on the whereabouts of the militant in ISIL’s capital Raqqa enabling the airstrikes that are believed to have been successful.
Accordingly MT determined that a female British messenger arrived at Raqqa on Nov. 4 and started to hold meetings across town. MT shared this intelligence with Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) MI-6.
Tracking the woman down MI-6 reported back to MT saying the messenger had connections with Emwazi publicly known as Jihadi John.
Monitoring the woman inside Raqqa MT determined the location of Aine Leslie Junior Davis a suspected associate of Jihadi John. Turkey’s intelligence organization also discovered Davis would soon travel toEuropethrough Turkey in order to deliver orders on planned terror attacks.
Reports indicate Davis left Raqqa on Nov. 7 and crossed into the Çldroba village of Turkey’s Syrian border town of Kilis. The jihadist moved to a cell house in Gaziantep the same day where he stayed for two nights.
On Nov. 9 Davis took a coach and arrived in Istanbul on Nov. 10.
MT secretly monitored the movements meetings and connections of Davis throughout his time in Istanbul until raiding a million-dollar ISIL cell house in Istanbul’s Silivri district on Nov. 12.
Davis and four others were captured in the cell house while 11 people seven of whom were foreigners were detained in simultaneous operations in Istanbul Kilis and Gaziantep.
Sources claim some 20 foreigners were inside the villa at the time of the raid including women and children. Police seized around a hundred flash disks and hard disk drives in the operation.
According to reports however Davis declined to comment during his interrogation in Istanbul and all information was gathered through a digital investigation of his phone line.
Meanwhile intelligence sharing between MT MI-6 and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) proved valuable as Britain and the U.S. made use of Turkish intelligence in striking targets where Jihadi John was presumably staying.
On Nov. 12 two U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones and one British MQ-9 began tracking two people who had entered a car one of whom is believed to be Emwazi.
Two missiles destroyed the car targeted in the strike. The U.S. has expressed growing optimism that Emwazi was dead but cautioned that a formal determination would take time.
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