Thread by @theousherwood

Jeremy Corbyn has done a short interview with my colleague @philmcdonald94 in Glasgow.

In it, the Labour leader questions the US account of the death of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and says the "right thing to do" would have been to arrest him.

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@philmcdonald94 Reporter: “In 2011, after US special forces killed Osama Bin Laden, you said it was a 'tragedy' that the al-Qaeda leader was dead rather than being captured and put on trial and so is the recent death of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a tragedy?”

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@philmcdonald94 Jeremy Corbyn: “If we preach international law and international legal process through the International Court of Justice in The Hague then we should carry it out."

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@philmcdonald94 Mr Corbyn added: "And if it’s possible to arrest somebody and put them on trial, then that is what should have been done and that is what I said about the death in 2011 and it would continue to be my principle."

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@philmcdonald94 Corbyn: "If we believe, as we do, in international law and justice and the power of the International Court of Justice, then we should everything we can to bring people, where they deserve to go trial, to be put on trial as was Milosevic and others.”

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@philmcdonald94 Second question from the reporter: “Whilst nobody celebrates the death of another human being, this is a man who’s victims were drowned in cages and some of his victims were British, so is his death not something to be looked at as a good thing?”

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@philmcdonald94 Corbyn's reply: "“Him being removed from the scene is a very good thing."

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@philmcdonald94 Corbyn added: "If it would have been possible to arrest him, I don’t know the details of the circumstances at the time. I have only seen various statements put out by the US about it, surely that would have been the right thing to do."

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@philmcdonald94 And the Labour leader concluded: "If we want to live in a world of peace and justice we should practice it as well.”

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