{"id":38600,"date":"2019-04-03T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38600"},"modified":"2019-04-03T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:23:06","slug":"uk-army-investigates-corbyn-target-practice-video-from-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38600","title":{"rendered":"UK army investigates Corbyn target practice video from Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"84.1988217968\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-kingdom.html\">United Kingdom<\/a>&#8216;s defence ministry has launched an investigation into a social media video apparently showing soldiers using a picture of Labour Party leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/jeremy-corbyn.html\">Jeremy Corbyn<\/a> for target practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The ministry said the incident, allegedly filmed at a shooting range in the Afghan capital, Kabul, was &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221;, according to a report by Sky News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;We are aware of a video circulating on social media, this behaviour is totally unacceptable and falls well below the high standards the Army expects,&#8221; an army spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A full investigation has been launched,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera was not able to verify the authenticity of the footage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video has prompted outrage, and many social media users criticised the footage, coming in the wake of the 2016 murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by far-right killer Thomas Mair and a foiled 2017 plot to murder Rosie Cooper, another Labour MP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.83\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Video has emerged of soldiers on a shooting range in Kabul firing at a target of Jeremy Corbyn. MOD confirms it as legit: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qOr84Aiivj\">pic.twitter.com\/qOr84Aiivj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliBunkallSKY\/status\/1113352300037398528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Corbyn has not been a popular figure for some army circles due to his views on the UK&#8217;s involvement in the war in Iraq and army practices in Northern Ireland during the Troubles &#8211; a violent period when more than 3,500 people were killed in sectarian violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s defence ministry has launched an investigation into a social media video apparently showing soldiers using a picture of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for target practice. The ministry said the incident, allegedly filmed at a shooting range in the Afghan capital, Kabul, was &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221;, according to a report by Sky News.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}