But, following an email discussion this week among global news ombudsmen, public editors and readers’ editors who belong to the Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO), it is clear to me that worldwide – and even within Canada – there is considerable inconsistency in how we refer to this group of terrorists.
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After intelligence disclosures by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, terrorist groups such as the Islamic State discovered more ways to hide their communications from intelligence agencies, he said.
But on this side of the Atlantic, Daesh hasn’t caught on.
It became Al-Qaida in Iraq, after he pledged loyalty to bin Laden’s group during the war against USA forces there. “We don’t now have any plans to change our style”, said Phil Corbett, the standards editor for the Times.
The official said ISIS has a cell dedicated to building these weapons and has already packed the powder form of mustard gas in traditional explosives.
It will be an assault eagerly awaited by the Shiite-dominated Baghdad government, the Pentagon and members of Congress who have pressed the top brass to produce a big win against the Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS. Secretary of State John Kerry has been using “Daesh” for a while.
Katy Culver, professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and the associate director of the Center for Journalism Ethics, told IBT that it’s a hard issue to unpack.
“Without a ground component, I don’t see how this works”, Graham said.
“Thousands of airstrikes against ISIL targets have conjured the illusion of progress, but they have produced little in the way of decisive battlefield effects”, Sen. “Are we going to confuse readers? We’re not in this business to kill civilians, we’re in this business to stop” the IS group. And, a few of those people I have ordered into battle.
But what does it mean – and why do Islamic State hate it so much?
The USA dropped the leaflets about an hour before the strikes. It’s for that insulting translation that Islamic State group has rejected the term. On the other, no outlet wants to be accused of giving the terrorists undue legitimacy.
That’s exactly the question The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood tackled earlier this year in a an in-depth analysis of the group for an article titled, “What ISIS Really Wants”, now being recirculated.
In July, Turkey launched its first airstrike against ISIS after ISIS conducted a cross-border attack that killed a Turkish soldier and a suicide bombing that killed more than 30 people in the southern Turkish province of Suruc.
Martin said that’s still unclear. Suspect Salah Abdeslam is believed to be on the lam. The attacks were the deadliest in France since World War II, and the deadliest in Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings, according to The NY Times.
But the mission reflected only an incremental surge of existing strategy, which has focused on using air power to take out ISIS sites in Iraq and Syria.
Writing at 2paragraphs.com, Bretton-Gordon continued, “Virtually every foreign jihadi who returns to the USA or United Kingdom will have been exposed to training of this sort and will have a reasonable idea on how to use chlorine and other toxic chemicals as a terror weapon”.
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“I would be very confident that a few sort of attack like that could not materialise in the United Kingdom and probably most of the capitals around the globe because people are aware of it”, he said. “And it would play different in a newsroom, where there would be less representation of Muslims and more Christians to push back”. “Terrorism is all about over-reaction, provoking an overreaction”.
