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ISIS terrorist Jihadi John was killed in a drone strike while holding a kebab, a mission chief revealed. MI6 tracked the fighter, real name Mohammed Emwazi, to a takeaway in 2015 before being wiped out in a British-led attack. Officials waited until a boy with him left the scene before giving the drone strike the go-ahead.

A military official said the RAF and US Air Force lead the mission in Qatar and were backed by spies in Syria, The Sun reports. They said: “We’d been monitoring Emwazi six weeks and identified a pattern in which he’d visit a building near his mosque. He’d arrive in a 4×4 and stay for three-to-four minutes.

“The team asked MI6 about the building and it came back that it was a kebab shop. One day he walked out of the kebab shop there and the boy ran off to play football. It was our chance.”

After a Hellfire missile was launched, the boy returned, which almost prompted the mission to be aborted. However, he then became blocked by cars and the strike resumed.

“Emwazi was evaporated, kebab in hand,” the official added.

Emwazi joined ISIS with three other Brits, who became known as the ISIS Beatles. They executed at least 29 captives, filming their brutal deaths and posting them online.

Last week, fellow ISIS Beatle member Jihadi Ringo applied to make his return to Britain because he misses his family and friends.

El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison in 2022 on hostage taking and conspiracy to murder charges. He is currently in a high-security prison in the US, but has applied to be transferred to the UK.

Elsheikh was born in Sudan but grew up in London before having his citizenship revoked in 2018. The Beatles gang filmed the beheading of aid worker David Haines in 2014 after capturing him from a Syrian internally displaced persons camp.

Mr Haines’ daughter Bethany has called Elsheikh’s bid to come back to the UK an “outrageous insult”.

She said: “The idea someone this evil could be back in a British prison makes my skin crawl. I urge both authorities in the US and UK to see sense and make sure he stays where he is so we can continue to attempt to rebuild our lives.”