I assume this is a translation from an Arabic broadcast. No way they would say this in English.
@LiberalLibrarian they have been doing that crap for years with many articles they'll stuff in Arabic they don't say in English version
@ecksmc Vile scum.
Yep, Arabic. The English version of the article doesn't have the "alleged".
https://www.aljazeera.net/politics/2018/5/23/%d9%88%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%83%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%84%d9%85%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%b5%d9%88%d9%85%d9%83%d9%85-%d8%ae%d8%b7%d8%b1