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Analyst/researcher | Syria and terrorism (jihadists, PKK) | Digressions on history, especially the Soviet Union | Likes are just bookmarks. RTs are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    12 Dec 2018

    "Zionism is Making Us Stupid": The Russian Relationship with Israel from the Soviets to Putin

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Easy to jump to sinister conclusions here. Maybe that's right. But it might also be a clumsy attempt by Trump to counter the barrage of politicised leaks, some of them grossly illegal, from supposedly impartial officials, which began early and continue.

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    2 hours ago

    My considered comment on the British yellow vests is that it is pathetic to steal another nation's imagery and it is doubly so to steal it from the French.

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    2 hours ago

    The attack in Yemen last week, by what is effectively a modified target drone, has allegedly killed a Major General, the chief of military intelligence.

    Major General Mohammed Saleh Tamah Chief of Military Intelligence died this morning of injuries sustained from Houthi drone strike.
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    8 hours ago

    In what seems possible shift/ new development, Afghan Taliban chide Saudi for its war in Yemen. The group urges Islamic countries for keeping silent about the catastrophe in Yemen.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    The conspiracies about David Kelly continue.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    The easier options for retaliation against in Iraq itself and more so in Syria seem to have gone nowhere. The Mattis Factor was almost certainly at work in whittling down the White House requests and responses.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    The Iranian regime funnelled advanced weapons like EFPs into Iraq for a decade, murdering hundreds of our people and tens of thousands of Iraqis. They never paid a price for that and were emboldened by that fact. It's long overdue that Tehran was punished directly for its conduct

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  9. 2 hours ago

    After 's provide attacked the US's Baghdad Embassy on 6 SEPT and Basra consulate on 8 SEPT, asked the Pentagon to prepare military options to retaliate directly against the Islamic Republic.

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    5 hours ago

    Sunrise over Kabul, 13/01/2019 🙏🏼

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    4 hours ago

    Arghhh! Jeremy Corbyn just said on that the European Court of Human Rights is "in part an EU institution". It isn't! It's a totally separate institution, arising from a separate treaty which well pre-dates the EU and would remain in place whatever version of Brexit

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    7 hours ago

    says completed & all cross-border tunnels revealed. Adds that more tunnel digging sites exist in . Latest tunnel revealed is longest and most sophisticated. IDF refuses to provide the exact number of tunnels that exist

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  13. 5 hours ago

    If Parliament were taking authority into its own hands away from the Executive, rather than weakening the Executive with the intention of keeping authority vested in a foreign and unelected entity, there would be much less to complain about.

    A "coup" which comprises Parliament taking back control from an over-mighty but incompetent executive. If our press and punditry were not so government-minded, they would be…
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    17 hours ago

    An old debate has resurfaced today, with implications for the integrity of nonproliferation analysis today. Thread 👇 Cc:

    Replying to @BrunoTertrais
    Yes. One had to look, which journalists did and so did we. We spent weeks scanning overhead imagery looking for the site of the bombing. Israel and the US government did not want the information out. 1/
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    6 hours ago

    BREAKING: Netanyahu takes responsibility for Israeli airstrike against Iranian forces in Syria on Friday and says the target was a warehouse with Iranian weapons in Damascus international airport

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    6 hours ago

    Turkish police makes a number of arrests in an operation targeting suspected HTS members in city of Adana amid Idlib clashes

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    15 hours ago

    Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo Cooperated Closely Even Before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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    12 hours ago

    Text of the bill introduced in the US House of Representatives to terminate Pakistan's "Major non-NATO ally" designation (unless POTUS certifies that Pakistan is cooperating wrt HQN and Afghanistan).

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    21 hours ago

    More than 90% of ’s Jewish population also had 2 flee the country after the 1979 disaster. They, among millions of , were stripped of property & livelihoods. assets forcibly confiscated by regime were initial investment in Khamenei’s now $90 billion empire

    In 1945 more than 850,000 Jews lived in the Arab world. Today, there are less than 5,000. A shocking 99.5% of Middle Eastern Jews fled or were expelled. These Jewish refugees received no humanitarian aid from the UN, no compensation for their stolen property.
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  20. 17 hours ago

    U.S. not looking to grant further Iran oil sales waivers, Brian Hook, the U.S. Special Representative for Iran at the State Department, indicates.

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  21. 17 hours ago

    Lisa Page's testimony is rather interesting in general. The whole lot can be read here: She does seem to have the balance on the threats from and way off.

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