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Senior NatSec Correspondent for in DC. Focused on war, terrorism and homeland security. Yuvarlanıp gidiyoruz. mike.giglio@buzzfeed.com

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  1. 20 minutes ago

    It has been a beautiful 5.5 years at . Through a lot of tough stuff — Syria, Ukraine, ISIS, Mosul, and now DC — and I’ve always been proud to be here. I’m sorry to see it end. Good luck to my friends. And looking forward to beating BF’s ass, with love, in whatever’s next

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  2. Jan 23

    okay i found him, we can all go back to work

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    Now that's what I call Nasheed 2019!!
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    Jan 23
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    You had one job...

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  4. Jan 23

    sighting...

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  5. Jan 23

    possible baghdadi citing:

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  6. Jan 23

    my hot take is that this is all just a clever hype campaign for when baghdadi drops his next mixtape

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    Jan 23
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    Like Jim Mattis, I’m gonna need to see the body.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    People wrongly assume a US military presence means American soldiers shooting at bad guys. It’s also about intelligence-gathering on the enemy. AQI’s containment in Iraq was as much about direct liaison with partners as it was about intercepting comms.

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    Jan 22

    . & co went inside the secretive US mission in Syria — hunting down ISIS members (untethered to territory) — which Trump is now shutting down

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  10. Jan 18

    re-upping my deep dive with + on what US-led efforts to hunt ISIS cells in Syria look like, how they'll be affected by withdrawal, and why this reminds some of the ISIS resurgence last time around, after Obama left Iraq

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  11. Jan 18

    can we get this unnamed rancher to pick a prayer rug out of a lineup of other rugs?

    Border rancher: “We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal.” Washington Examiner People coming across the Southern Border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise.
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    Jan 17

    . w/the nitty-gritty on how a US presence in uniquely facilitates counter- ops. Must read. Questions that are never asked about the : "How good are these guys with Americans? Do we have to worry about getting shot in the back?”

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    Jan 17

    Why it's harder to keep lid on IS in Syria w/ Iraq-based JSOC raids than w/ SOF living on the ground: “You’re relying almost exclusively on SIGINT [if] you don’t have a footprint," giving up HUMINT & SSE from SDF raids. From &

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    Jan 17

    JTACs are a critical part of the Coalition precision airstrike process. Hitherto, JTACs have been supplied by Coalition SoF, embedded w/ SDF. Remove the JTAC capability, and your ability to laser designate, or guide a precision weapon into a dynamic target, is severely degraded.

    also an SDF official tells us they will pursue a deal with the Assad regime if the US pulls its troops from Syria, which would severely limit US access for CT operations, including airstrikes. if not block it entirely.
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  15. Jan 17

    US and European troops and their local partners have been working to roll up ISIS networks in Syria. How Trump's withdrawal would undermine that campaign. w/ insight from and more

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  16. Jan 17

    also an SDF official tells us they will pursue a deal with the Assad regime if the US pulls its troops from Syria, which would severely limit US access for CT operations, including airstrikes. if not block it entirely.

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  17. Jan 17

    from a French CT official: “Yes, we will be able to continue to operate from northern Iraq, at least for now. But that isn’t the same as having soldiers living and working alongside the fighters on the ground [in Syria].”

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  18. Jan 17

    European intel official just back from Syria: "we are going to lose control of the area of ops we needed to maintain to make sure the top leadership and most dangerous foreign fighters who have so far escaped are either hiding in holes or are dead in them”

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  19. Jan 17

    here's everything , and I could find on how Trump's withdrawal will affect US-led efforts to hunt the ISIS members in hiding across Syria. sources who've been involved in this are very worried.

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  20. Jan 16

    SDF officials have been warning in interviews that ISIS cells persist across former ISIS-held territory and that the SDF still needs help from the US and coalition to combat them

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