[buwaya]

Well, in what way is this different from the DM quoting some UK MoD spokesman?

[BlackbirdSST]

It isn't so important that they came upon the news, it's that they reported it. It appears on the surface that they reported accurately and also appears rather short of their usual embellishments. News should be long on facts, as short in presentation as possible to relate those facts and frankly news should be rather boring. You get none of that with all of the propaganda floating around.