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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. it's 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 be geeted. >> let's go to barbara starr for the latest. how did they find him and how do they know h...

Emwazi for several days. he had been in some location outside of raqqa, syria. began to move into raqqa. that's 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 on the ground in syria, in raqqa, so they have no dringt eyirect eye target. they can't be absolutel...

U.s. intelligence, u.s. command, i hear in the intelligence space about whether you'll create further terrorists by killing someone with the drone. that's not the debate inside government. it's much simpler. this person will go on to murder more people. if he's in the sights, your choice is either to prevent that from happening by killing him or to allow him to keep moving on because you're afraid killing him will create other terrorists. that's not a choice. you'll take him out. >> kate was asking how big a priority this is. i think we had a good sense when british prime minister david camero...

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. carson's 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. there's no evidence of that. nia challenged him on that and he said, i'm going to show you proof that's better than that national intelligence in the defense depar...

>> sure. there's 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 he's going to be tomorrow. that is finding out where he was yesterday that's not good enough. that's classic intelligence. that's not drone intelligence. you want to predict enough so you've got an aerial devic...