‘Jihadi John' Targeted: Victims' Families React to Strike

The families of Western hostages murdered by ISIS have expressed mixed feelings about news that Mohammed Emwazi was targeted by a U.S. airstrike near Raqqa, Syria, NBC News reported. 

Dubbed "Jihadi John," the Kuwaiti-born British citizen appeared in a series of gruesome videos last year showing the killings of U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, U.S. aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese Journalist Kenji Goto.

Steven Sotloff's mother Shirley Sotloff said, "If they got him great, it doesn't bring my son back ... I don't think there will ever be closure."

For David Haines' daughter Bethany Haines, Emwazi "was only a pawn in ISIS' stupid game ... As much as I wanted him dead I also wanted answers as to why he did it, why my dad, how did it make a difference?"

Alan Henning's brother Reg Henning said he "would have preferred him to face justice."

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