RAF Drone Strike Kills Two British IS Fighters!

[seanjo]

Two Islamic State fighters from Britain are killed in an RAF drone strike in Syria, ordered without parliamentary approval.

Two Islamic State fighters from Britain have been killed by an RAF drone strike in "an act of self-defence", David Cameron has confirmed.

Reyaad Khan, from Cardiff, and Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, were killed in the aerial raid which was ordered without Commons approval.

Critics reacted immediately, describing the "secret strike" as "unprecedented" and "deeply worrying".

A third Briton, Junaid Hussain, was killed in a US airstrike six days later, on 24 August, the Prime Minister said.

Mr Cameron defended the RAF raid, telling the Commons it was "necessary and proportionate", adding it was "entirely lawful" and was approved by Attorney General Jeremy Wright.

The PM claimed Khan and Hussain were actively involved in orchestrating a number of plots to attack "high-profile public commemorations" over the summer.

All three were killed in Raqqa, considered the capital of the so-called Islamic State, in Syria.

Mr Cameron told MPs that security chiefs had stopped at least six terror attacks against Britain in the last 12 months, adding the risk to Britain from Islamist extremist violence is "more acute today than ever before".

The RAF strike specifically targeted Khan, but Amin was also killed, along with another man.

Khan travelled to Syria in late 2013, and appeared in a video calling for Westerners to fight in Syria and Iraq.

Sky's Foreign Editor Sam Kiley said all three Britons were well-known to UK security services.

Hussain was a "leading light" in IS's cyber campaign, Kiley said.

But Kiley said attention would undoubtedly turn to whether the deaths are viewed as necessary for self-defence or as "extra-judicial executions".

Mr Cameron told the Commons: "We should be under no illusion. Their intention was the murder of British citizens......

http://news.sky.com/story/1548309/ra...sh-is-fighters

[seanjo]

Justified?

[the demon]

fuck yeah it is. Any treasonous brit or american who goes to fight for these bastards, is a more valued target than the 'typical' ISIS in my opinion.

Not only do they deserve death for treason, but they deserve death for being an enemy.

[3rd3y3]

Wash your hands of clandestine ops the easy way

[dan123]

I'm not sure if it's justified, but I'm erring on the side of "Fuck'em"

[gerryowen]

Well done, the possibility of them returning to UK and playing havoc eliminated.

[kev86]

good riddance

[bran]

Good job..fuck em.

[kasheku]

too bad they didnt take more out

[snipershot]

Silly jihadis playing in the big leagues got burned by their phone gps.