{"id":179915,"date":"2015-09-09T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=179915"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:23:27","slug":"uk-mps-question-syria-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-mps-question-syria-drone-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"More UK MPs question Syria drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>More UK politicians are now questioning legal justification of the country\u2019s drone strikes in Syria. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior lawmaker, Lord Macdonald from Liberal Democrats cast\u00a0doubt about legal justification for the drone strikes such as that on two British militants on August 21.<\/p>\n<p>His statement comes after <span style=\"color: #222222;\">UK Prime Minister David Cameron\u00a0revealed that British forces carried out a drone airstrike in Syria\u00a0killing\u00a0three Daesh terrorists, including two young Britons.\u00a0Speaking before the British parliament on Monday, Cameron added that the\u00a0prime target of the drone attack\u00a0was 21-year-old Reyaad Khan from the city of Cardiff, but the August 21 airstrike also killed two other Daesh terrorists, including another British citizen identified as 26-year-old Ruhul Amin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Macdonald urged the government \u201cto be more transparent about the reasons for ordering the strike including asking parliament\u2019s intelligence and security committee to look at the evidence and ordering the attorney general to give his point of view to the House of Commons.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/09\/09\/428437\/UK-question-Syria-drone-strike\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More UK politicians are now questioning legal justification of the country\u2019s drone strikes in Syria. Senior lawmaker, Lord Macdonald from Liberal Democrats cast\u00a0doubt about legal justification for the drone strikes such as that on two British militants on August 21. His statement comes after UK Prime Minister David Cameron\u00a0revealed that British forces carried out a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}