Trump threatens to jail journalist in bid to find source behind report of missing airman in Iran

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Trump targets media to find ‘leaker’ who revealed that a US airman was missing after being shot down by Iranian forces

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran on Friday in a bid to identify their source.

The badly injured airman hid in a mountain crevice to avoid capture before being rescued by a US recovery team that took on heavy fire.

The US president announced on Sunday that the service member had been recovered.

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