13-11-2015 19:41 via news.yahoo.com

Strike on 'Jihadi John' unfolded quickly, but hunt took months

By Phil Stewart and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-British missile strike believed to have killed "Jihadi John" came together at lightning speed, but was months in preparation. Shortly before midnight Thursday, two U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones and one British MQ-9 cruised above Raqqa, the Syrian heart of the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate that stretches deep into Iraq, U.S. officials said. One, they were certain, was Mohammed Emwazi, the British computer programming graduate
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