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Who appeared in those brutal isis beheading videos. the pentagon has not yet confirmed his death, but a senior u.s. official says they knew it was him when they took the shot over syria. >> his real name is mohammed emwazi. its his voice in the monstrous behealedings of james sotloff, james foley as well as others. this is secretary of state john kerry moments ago. >> we are still assessing the results of this trike. but the terrorist associated with daeish, your days are numbered and you will b...

Emwazi for several days. he had been in some location outside of raqqa, syria. began to move into raqqa. thats had they picked up his trail. and they have been trailing him very closely since wednesday. it was yesterday when that drone moved in and took the shot against him when he stepped out of a building and into a vehicle. so, now, why is everybody saying they think they got him but they are not absolutely certain? the reason is this. the u.s. has no military or u.s. intelligence personnel o...

U.s. intelligence, u.s. command, i hear in the intelligence space about whether youll create further terrorists by killing someone with the drone. thats not the debate inside government. its much simpler. this person will go on to murder more people. if hes in the sights, your choice is either to prevent that from happening by killing him or to allow him to keep moving on because youre afraid killing him will create other terrorists. thats not a choice. youll take him out. >> kate was asking how...

Riches, honor and life. that seems to be the motto of his life. he was showing humility, evoking his christian faith. this is going to go very well with dr. carsons voters. and yet in the same presser he plant the seed of further problems. nia-malika henderson from cnn asked him about this nonsense he says where syria is somehow placed where the chinese are now moving in to fight. >> he said this in the debate on tuesday. >> right. theres no evidence of that. nia challenged him on that and he sa...

>> sure. theres a big but. have you to think about three steps. number one, identifying that they know that jihadi john is up somewhere in syria. they have identified him on a phone. secondly, finding him in space. if you identified in making a mistake on a phone, talking to the wrong person, exactly where is he so you can begin to think about a shot. and the third is determining where hes going to be tomorrow. that is finding out where he was yesterday thats not good enough. thats classic intel...

Hunt them down again and conduct another strike. theres good reason, they say, to believe that they did get jihadi john. you have to look at xho conducted the mission. this was the joint special operations command. this is the group down in ft. bragg thats been conducting all these drone ops and tracks this type of intelligence bit by bit. they took the shot because they really believed that that was him. >> barbara starr at the pentagon with the latest. thanks much. want to talk about this more...