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On drone strikes, David Cameron is repeating Tony Blair’s big mistake

The Prime Minister should have kept things simple and avoided legalistic talk of imminent attacks

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

Not even Jeremy Corbyn lamented the death of Reyaad Khan, who was killed by an RAF drone in Syria after joining the Islamic State. He was a straight-A student from Cardiff who had the freedom to do anything with his life, but chose to turn his back on Britain and join a band of Islamofascists.

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