Tuesday, October 5, 2010

International Press Perspectives

 There was a unmanned United States Aircraft that shot two missiles German militants in Iran. The men were killed while hiding in a mosque. They were supposedly terrorists plotting multiple attacks on different European cities. Possible cities were London, Paris and Berlin. US officials think that the men were connected with Osama bin Laden.

I looked at multiple sources for this story and found that most of the information was vague, but mostly the same. When taking a look at UK news, the story states that five German militants were killed. On a Iran Daily, the article says that eight German militants were killed. On what looks to be a Pakistani website, they say that 9 men were killed in the attack. This is interesting because number of deaths in a incident like this is not open to interpretation, but fact. To look on the bright side, none of these articles said anything about casualties and or innocent lives lost in the missile attack. These different facts from each news site really shows how you can't trust just one news site. In this instance, there is at least two out of three websites  fatality numbers is wrong. It might be 5, 8, 9, or none, but it can't be all.




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8042774/US-drone-strike-kills-five-German-militants-in-Pakistan.html


http://videos.desishock.net/1288807/9-Dead-in-a-Recent-Drone-Attack-in-Pakistan-Sahar-Urdu-TV-News-October-02-2010-Tehran-Iran

Titled drone strike
http://www.iran-daily.com/#

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