Britain's jihadi kill list

摘要

It was, the prime minister conceded in a statement to the House of Commons on September 7th, "a new departure" for Britain. David Cameron said the decision to target and kill Reyaad Khan in Syria, an Islamic State (IS) fighter from Cardiff, had been taken at a meeting of the National Security Council some months earlier. The strike, which also killed two others travelling in the same vehicle as Mr Khan, including another Briton, Ruhul Amin, was carried out by a Reaper drone of the Royal Air Force on August 21st. Previously, RAF drones have been used for lethal strikes in Afghanistan, but only when British or allied forces were threatened by fighting on the ground. Mr Cameron has parliamentary approval for carrying out air strikes in Iraq as part of the anti-is coalition, but he has yet to secure backing for bombing in Syria.