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BRITISH NEWS OUTLETS yesterday widely reported the deaths of two British-born Islamic state militants in a drone strike carried out by the RAF.
On Monday British PM David Cameron confirmed to Parliament that Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin had been killed in the attack near Raqqa in Syria on 21 August.
Both men had featured prominently in a recruitment video for Isis in June of last year.
However, some confusion has since arisen about the death of one of the men, with a number of news outlets having reported that Reyaad Khan was killed in July of this year.
The reporting of his death by the papers faced criticism on social media for not having shown enough vigilance in reporting the story for the second time.
However, while there had been reports of Khan being killed by an air strike in July, these were not confirmed by UK police or its Foreign Office.
Coverage was based on collated social media reports and local sources that said Khan had been killed by an airstrike alongside two other Britons.
Shiraz Maher, a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College in London tweeted at the time that his organisation was confident that Reyaad Khan had been killed, but that it could not state that categorically.
While covering the story, outlets at the time were careful not to state outright that Khan had been killed, with Guardian journalist Roy Greenslade pointing to the use of qualifiers and single-quotation marks in headlines as evidence of this.
In a statement, The Guardian has stated that, “our original report was couched cautiously to be clear that the claim was not verified by all parties. We have referenced that the original report of Khan’s death was incorrect in the profile we ran today.”
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Yes James, we all blindly believe you! You couldn’t just discuss that one site with Nama, as it would be too obvious. So you threw another few in, to throw a wall of Fog up around it. We aren’t stupid, you lying two faced Facist blueshirt!
Facist Blueshirt…. !!! Nice comment…Thats says a lot about you..
I wonder which party you are involved in Stephen…Had a glance at your tweets btw…nice use of english..
This smells like Minister Michael Lowry’s type of decision making all over again. This certainly should warrant his dismissal.
Correct.
Has he decided that the new children’s hospital would be perfect for Swords or Balbriggan yet?
No, the new National Children’s Hospital is odds on to relocated Castlebar.
He looks like a crook in the photo.
Oh wait ..
Yea ………. Along with all his colleagues
Fat Tony from The Simpsons. Except that cartoon is more believable than this government,
fat tony yea who is mr burns?
Pat Carey is Mr. Burns.
Only he’s got an airport already he’d want one of those as well. Taxi for Dr Reilly.
Anyone wonder why Angela Merkel calls Enda Kenny Smithers.
was that really worth saying?? what have you added apart from another cheap shot… These forums are a pathetc joke
…and yet you still come back for more Declan !
O’Reilly from Fawlty Towers was more trustworthy than this guy.
Squire Hockey must be looking down (or up) and wondering when it was exactly that the Blueshirts usurped Fenian Failure’s mantle as the country’s arbiters of clientism and corruption. Plus ca change and all that….
As Reilly committed the same offence as Sean Quinn’s son, ie. failure to comply with a court directive, at that time he should have been sitting in a cell with Quinn and not sitting down with NAMA.
Jack Kiernan
He’s still in a job because he’s not entitled to his minsters pension yet. As soon as he is, shortly afterwards he’ll be moved aside.
A payback from Enda for the support in the great heavy ho.
Don’t forget FG Have been out of office for a while, it’s a long time since they clocked up a massive pension fund for some of the faithful
O’Reilly has more baggage than a RyanAir flight to Malaga. How he is still in a job is just another example of this shambollic government.
It’s blindingly obvious what O’Reilly was trying to do! The guy has been caught out doing a Fianna FAILure on it and playing gombeen politics for his own electoral benefit. The man is a disgrace and should have been sacked. It say all you need to know about the current shower in power that they all backed him up, nothing ever changes, the same abuses we saw under the last shower just carry on as usual with this bunch of chancers. Bottom line, they are all as crooked and bent as each other, don’t be surprised if the new children’s hospital isn’t moved to a location in a marginal FG constituency or worse to Mayo!
Corrupt to the bone!!
In response, Gilmore said: “In relation to individual ministers and who they meet and what’s in their diary and when: to be honest, I can’t track, nor do I want to track, the diaries of every minister in this Government and who they met and when they met and so on… nor indeed could I possibly do so.”
Why not? Why isnt it possible for this to be done? In this particular case, surely all the available evidence SHOULD be looked at? And if Gilmore doesnt do it himself, why don’t others, mandated by him, do it on his behalf? Wouldn’t this fall into the category of ‘transparency and accountability’ that he is so fond of banging on about (when he is taking a break from running Ireland and Europe)
Whats exactly does this change?? A waste of question by SF?? So what if he met with NAMA…If we can use a property that the state already owns for a primary care site then great??? I fail to see anything in this….Why are you even bothering to write it up??? Most be a real slow news day!!!
What does it change? He said he had no hand in selection of sites. This suggests otherwise. Also, you do know that lobbying NAMA is illegal? And how is it a waste of a question? TD’s can ask as many written questions as they like. You’re not a FG supporter by any chance??
@Declan your obviously a FG fan so your comments dont hold much because……….
It is a pity that Roscommon Co Council did not have your attitude Declan , and use already built office space ,instead of squandering €18,000,000 that they have to borrow ! For shame !
Would not believe a word out of his mouth
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