Overview

• An unnamed mission chief recounts that MI6 traced Mohammed Emwazi to a takeaway in Raqqa after six weeks of pattern‑of‑life monitoring.
• He was observed arriving in a 4x4 for brief three to four minute visits to a building near his mosque that was identified as a kebab shop.
• Operators waited for a boy accompanying Emwazi to leave before launching a Hellfire missile, nearly aborting when the child briefly returned.
• Drone specialists from the RAF and USAF ran the operation from Qatar with support from agents on the ground in Syria, according to the account.
• Separately, IS ‘Beatles’ member El Shafee Elsheikh has applied to transfer from a US prison to the UK, drawing objections from victims’ families.