Sinjar on foot. They faced heavy gunfire. Successfully takeing facilities. Also breaking, jihadi john, may now be dead. The pentagon now confirming it pounced on a moment of opportunity. U. S. Special forces taking aim with a drone strike. Recovering all of this like only cnn can with our full team of experts. I want to start with Cnn International Senior Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh in iraq. Reporter may have declared sinjar as liberated but it isnt the full picture. There are still pockets of isis behind us. One potentially from that little bit of black smoke on the horizon behind me. But also weve come back from being done on the ground with the peshmerga. A bullet went over you are a heads. They responded with a lot of fire power. They said there was an isis sniper in one of the buildings. And one of their number they said about one of the two or three they had injured, that person was carried out to a nearby vehicle. Still volatile in there. A Swedish Volunteer we spoke to. Figh
They took the shot. Another official tells cnn emwazi was in a vehicle near raqqa. Emwazi appeared in a series of isis beheading videos, documenting the murders of several murder, american and britain japanese hostages, he was seen taunting u. S. And british leaders. Well continue to strike the necks of our people were this morning, the uk government saying britain was working hand in glove with america over the jihadi john drone strike. This was an act of selfdefense, the right thing to do. Reporter emwazi, in in his mid20s. If this strike was successful and we still await confirmation of that, it will be a strike at the heart of isil. Reporter one of the things that he also said was that this was a longterm operation of the two Intelligence Services and also said this is a clear message to isis as well that the reach of the u. S. And britain is long and that they will not forget the fate of their citizens. All right, fred, thank you for that. Meanwhile, day two of operation free sinj
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. Its 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. Lets go to Barbara Starr for the latest. How did they find him and how do they know hes dead . Reporter we now know they had been tracking the u. S. Intelligence, the u. S. Military had been tracking Mohammed Emwazi for several days. He had been in some location outside of raqqa, syria. Began to move into raqqa. Thats 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 ste
False Neutrality: Sweden Helped Hitler and the Forest Brothers Fight the Soviet Union
The last official war between Sweden and Russia ended in 1809 and resulted Finland becoming part of the Russian Empire. However, the Swedes, while maintaining a
de jure neutrality,
de facto never missed a chance to fight against the Russians. A prime example would be Sweden taking part in World War 2, with the formally neutral Swedes actually supporting Nazi Germany and helping the
Forest Brothers in the Baltics fight a guerilla war against the USSR.
The Suomi Beauty We will not be focusing on the events of the Russian Civil War when Swedes in the Finnish