Thursday 26 February 2015

Breaking news


There's been some confusion as to who broke the 'Jihadi John' story this morning. 

The Telegraph started a live blog about at 10.50am, citing The Washington Post. A minute later came this tweet from BBC Breaking News, linking to a newly-posted BBC online article:
The early versions of that BBC article, as Newssniffer shows, also claimed the story for the BBC:
The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages, has been named.
The BBC understands he is Mohammed Emwazi, a British man believed to be from West London, who was known to British security services.
Shortly after terrorist expert Shiraz Maher took to Twitter to set matters straight:
Adam Goldman of the Washington Post also soon took to Twitter:
ITV's deputy political editor Chris Ship wasn't impressed with the BBC:
The latest versions of the BBC article have removed the suggestions that it's a BBC scoop:
The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages, has been named.
He is Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British man in his mid-20s from west London, who was previously known to British security services. 

Update:  However, later that very same day....

2 comments:

  1. Good thread on all this on Harry's Place. http://hurryupharry.org/2015/02/26/jihadi-john/#comments#disqus_thread

    'Cage' , 'Amnesty' , Moazzam Begg etc etc.

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  2. Still it all helps bury the immigration figures: 624,000 (at least, this being on the government's own dodgy figures).

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