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This reads like an AI-generated translation. It looks like the source that they're plagiarizing is this Daily Mail article:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9924567/US-drone-pi...

The points of difference have a strong smell of machine translation. E.g. "Killing for the sake of killing" turns into "I’ll kill you for the killing"; "Connecting Vets" becomes "Veterinary connection".

@dang This article should probably replace the submitted URL (edit: or alternatively, that article in the top reply comments)

related discussion thread: (identifying abuse of machine translation in published journal papers)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107614 ("Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science")

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From another comment chain (credit to @belter), this seems like the original source: https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/inside-america-fa...

Comment chain (along with archive link for EU access): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299929

> This site isn't currently available in the EU

Do you happen to know another source or archived version?

Edit: thanks for the updated links!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300227

Added that to the top level as well

Archived here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210825045512/https://www.audac...

I've edited my comment above to clarify an ambiguity. The Daily Mail article isn't the original source of the news story, but it's the textual source that the submitted URL is plagiarizing off of.

> This site isn't currently available in the EU

but i'm in the UK!!1ones

Given the video in the link that you sent - I wouldn't say that it's "accidental" - they said they killed anyone who met the "criteria" and the "criteria" was anyone who touched a walki talki because the Talian has taken the phones offline and they suspected ISIS was communicating via walki talki. This was described as basically killing for the sake of killing (agree) - but accidental makes it sound a lot less sinister.

They are describing a particular incident when they were aiming at a man carrying a walky-talky, but the missile instead struck a different motorcycle with two adults and toddler. So killing those three people were accidental.

No it's not, see:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210825045512/https://www.audac...

Note for other readers: “no it’s not” refers to the Daily Mail not being the original source.

The submitted link (eminetra.co.uk) does look like a ML-generated copy.

Correct. Thanks ricardobeat

@dang

Thinking better about it...per suggestion of perihelions maybe change to original source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210825045512/https://www.audac...

or the Daily Mail link?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9924567/US-drone-pi...

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