Today
(Feb. 17), the Mainichi website
uploaded a remarkable
report from its Cairo correspondent, citing a Syrian
antigovernment activist as the main source. Specifically, an Egyptian official
of ISIL charged with collecting donations in Deir Ez Zour province in East
Syria reportedly disappeared. The report also says that there is information (情報もある) that the
Egyptian absconded to Turkey taking approximately 1 billion Syrian pounds in
donations.
I
always get suspicious when a Japanese newspaper comes across unsourced
“information.” (Likewise, when something “becomes known (明らかになった),”
it usually means, “We’ve been scooped!” But I digress.) In fact, the
“information” given here looks suspiciously like it was summarized from this
English-language report dated February 3, which in turn
gives as its source an Arabic report (Feb. 2) that cites yet another news site.
Mainichi’s
story is more than two weeks old. And it’s not giving credit to a key source.
And its “Syrian antigovernment activist” (in Cairo?) adds nothing of value to
the English-language report.
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