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Mind your language

Terrorists still can't 'execute' anyone

The word's meaning is shifting – but not that fast

21 June 2014

9:00 AM

21 June 2014

9:00 AM

During the sudden advances of ISIS in Iraq, one visual image stood for their brutality. As the Daily Mail reported it, there was ‘a propaganda video depicting appalling scenes including a businessman being dragged from his car and executed at the roadside with a pistol to the back of his head’.

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