Accuracy in Media

From ABC News: The driver’s uncle, Sadok Bouhlel, told The Associated Press that given Bouhlel’s family problems — he was estranged from his wife and three children — the Algerian “found in Mohamed an easy prey for recruitment.” Bouhlel’s rapid radicalization has puzzled investigators. Friends and family said he had not been an observant Muslim […]

WASHINGTON — French troops claimed they killed one of the top assistants of the North African terrorist leader Belmokhar. Reuters reported that French troops killed the second-in-command to Mokhtar Belmokhar, Hacene Ould Khalill, whose nickname was Jouleibib. He was from Mauritania in western Africa. Belmokhtar’s assistant was killed during a counter-terrorist operation in the northern […]

WASHINGTON — A suspected Malian Islamist extremist killed himself without hurting or killing any others. The Associated Press reports that he went to an abandoned house and detonated his explosive vest. The house was close to the residence of Iyad Ag Ghali, a leader of the ousted Islamist group Ansar Dine, which is affiliated with […]