Three terrorists killed by U. A . Vs. They are the types of terrorists known as operatives, masterminds, suspected number ones. Tracked by the C. I. A , they are blown to bits by Hellfire missiles  fired from Predator drones. Quite soon we might well be watching a variety of American series based around the heroic people who who fly the drones from the safety of mainland U. S. A.

Their images are also tracked and sourced from propaganda videos and web sites ; their content forensically scrutinised and stored.

Released to the press the images serve a more familiar function, that of identifying an enemy. Cropped and resized and printed onto cheap newsprint paper they resemble wanted posters of the Old West.

Newspapers usually end up in bins or stacked up in bathrooms or garages. So that is the end of the life cycle of such imagery.