A US drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State jihadist known as "Jihadi John" on Thursday, according to American officials.<br />Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the strike Thursday in Syria's Raqqa targeted Mohamed Emwazi.<br />Cook said whether or not Emwazi died in the strike wasn't immediately clear.<br />Emwazi is in the videos showing the killings of journalists Steven Sotloff - who held Israeli citizenship - and James Foley, US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and a number of other hostages.<br />Emwazi was identified as "Jihadi John" last February, although a lawyer who once represented Emwazi's father told reporters that there was no evidence supporting the accusation.<br />Experts and others later confirmed the identification.
