A CNN reporter slipped up in a report on a stabbing attack at an East London subway station on Saturday, mistakenly saying that the assault followed UK terror strikes on ISIS in Syria.
CNN reporter Phil Black commented: “This is the week that Britain has just begun launching terror attacks against ISIS in Syria itself.” The video has been removed from CNN’s report on the stabbing, but can still be viewed on YouTube:
The attack, in which three people were stabbed at Leytonstone tube station, is being treated as an act of terrorism by London’s Metropolitan Police.
The CNN gaffe was spotted by the website Israellycool.com, which called it a “Freudian slip for the ages,” and ended with the sardonic conclusion that the real reason for the attack was “because of Israel’s ‘occupation’ and ‘settlements’.”