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Sheikh Qassem: Our supporters make up more than half of Lebanon's population, and all of these people are united under the banner of protecting Lebanon, its Resistance, its people, and its integrity.
Sheikh Qassem: There will be no phased handing in of our arms. [The Israelis] must first enact the agreement before we start talking about a defensive strategy.
Sheikh Qassem: Be brave in the face of foreign pressures, and we will be by your side in this stance.
Sheikh Qassem: Stripping us of our arms is like stripping us of our very soul, and this will prompt us to show them our might.
Sheikh Qassem: We will not abandon our arms, for they gave us dignity; we will not abandon our arms, for they protect us against our enemy.
Sheikh Qassem: The US efforts we are seeing are aimed at sabotaging Lebanon and constitute a call for sedition.
Sheikh Qassem: If you truly want to establish sovereignty and work for Lebanon’s interests, then stop the aggression.
Sheikh Qassem: The United States, which is meddling in Lebanon, is not trustworthy but rather poses a danger to it.
Sheikh Qassem: The United States is preventing the weapons that protect the homeland.
Sheikh Qassem: The government’s latest decision [on the disarmament of the Resistance] is non-charter-based, and if the government continues down this path, it is not faithful to Lebanon’s sovereignty.

Reuters attributes false statements to Al-Houthi

  • By Al Mayadeen Net
  • Source: Agencies
  • 12 Apr 2022 12:27
2 Min Read

Member of the Supreme Political Bureau in Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi, criticizes Reuters for attributing fake news through sourcing a fake Twitter account.

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  • Member of the Supreme Political Bureau in Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi
    Member of the Supreme Political Bureau in Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi

Reuters news agency sourced Tuesday a fake Twitter account in the name of the member of the Supreme Political Bureau in Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi, saying that Oman provided the Central Bank of Yemen with five billion dollars to help it pay the salaries of employees in the Sanaa government.

Later, the agency announced that it withdrew the news.

In response, Al-Houthi denied Reuters' news and tweeted that it is unfortunate that the agency made such a major mistake, and attributed false news without investigating the Twitter account that is sourced.

Al-Houthi pointed out that Reuters and other international media outlets must report correct information from trusted sources, and not from fake Twitter accounts. Earlier, the Yemeni politician tweeted the hashtag #ReutersFallen.

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Reuters and other international media must ensure that accurate information is transmitted from their sources and not based on fake Twitter accounts.
Therefore, we invite you to tweet about this topic under the hashtag #ReutersFallen#سقوط_رويترزhttps://t.co/zgJWXFYp9Z

— محمد علي الحوثي (@Moh_Alhouthi) April 12, 2022

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— محمد علي الحوثي (@Moh_Alhouthi) April 12, 2022

At a later time, Reuters confirmed that the source of the information is an unverified Twitter account attributed to Al-Houthi.

It is noteworthy that this is not the first time Reuters sources fake news based on fake social media accounts.

In October 2015, the news agency was forced to withdraw a story after publishing statements attributed to the former UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad, before it became clear that the information came from a fake account.

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