Accuracy in Media

Oh, he passed background checks? Federal agencies knew that a man hired as a security guard at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. was an accused Somali war criminal, CNN reported Friday. Yusuf Abdi Ali, who served as a military commander during the Somali Civil War, has been accused of torturing civilians, burning villages, and conducting […]

CNN did some digging and found out that Yusuf Ali, a former Somali warlord, was working as a security guard at the Dulles airport in Virginia, which is in the D.C. metropolitan area. He has since been removed from his position at the airport.

As Fox News reported: The head of the international aid group Doctors Without Borders called Wednesday for an independent war crimes investigation into last weekend’s airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people. Joanne Liu told reporters that the organization, which goes by its French-language acronym MSF, could not trust […]

This has become very apparent, as more news come out of the embattled Syria-Iraq region, about how the Islamic State (or ISIS) is killing civilians and videotaping the killings and beheadings to post as propaganda on the Internet. Yet, the international community waits for a strong U.S. response that has not been decided.

WASHINGTON — The United Nations will bring charges against the North Korean regime, led by current Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un, of ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings similar to the Nazi Germany era. Reuters reported that the investigators advised Kim Jong-Un in a letter, warning him that he could be charged by the International Criminal […]