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@OS26

Defense Analyst& tv commentator. New media practitioner. Guest columnist . Int’l Security Fellow. State Dept travel warning lvl 3 & above

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 19

    As heads to meetings with the Foreign Ministers of & to discuss peace, I encourage everyone to watch our award winning documentary on the conflict, its origins, and its humanitarian dimensions. Watch HERE:

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    8 hours ago

    This raw metadata allowed us to delve into truly unchartered territory: the minute-by-minute movements of a senior Russian spy during his foreign clandestine operations. Last week we looked at his London mission; now we turn our magnifying glass to his many trips to Switzerland.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    Take a good hard look at the face of Fayyad. He was the primary interlocutor with the Obama administration on policy as he and his former boss Nuri Maliki were allowed to establish a mass Iranian sponsored militia network wirh the help of American taxpayer funds

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    The scale of destruction inflicted by Russia, Iran & Assad forces in one neighbourhood of Eastern . Thousands of civilians were killed and those who survived were forcibly evicted and are now refugees in different parts of the world.

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  5. 6 hours ago

    These are the war crimes that Iranian oil shipments to regime fuel.

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  6. 7 hours ago

    What is going on in Iran's heavy water reactor in Arak? It's Iran's only plutonium reprocessing facility that can produce weapons-grade plutonium. We were told that the reactor core was rendered inoperable under the Obama deal. Perhaps not??

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  7. Jul 5

    Interdiction of the Iranian oil super tanker in Gibraltar means there's that much less fuel for the Assad regimes warplanes and tanks to conduct war crimes against the -n people. Iran's precipitous drop in overall oil exports also leaving with little options

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  8. Jul 5

    Next fourth of July: a parade of captured Iranian Revolutionary Guard fastboats and other such captured maritime booty

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    Uyghur parents say their children are missing in China. In 60 separate interviews, of heard grief-ridden testimonies of heart broken Uyghur parents giving details of the disappearance in East Turkistan of more than 100 children.

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    Jul 4
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  11. Retweeted
    Jul 4

    "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, is provoking a crisis to imbue leaders with fear of war and economic disruption so that they will lobby the U.S. to give what it wants." for .

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  12. Jul 4
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  13. Jul 4

    When the Ayatollah trolls can't even....

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  14. Jul 4
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    Careless about his wounds, another Syrian dad to deal with the loss of his 9 years old boy, a wound that would remain forever. Yusuf, the child, has been killed by a Russian air strike targeted their farm this morning near town in southern .

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  16. Jul 4

    The people must now rise

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  17. Retweeted
    Jul 4

    In 1999 Ahmad Batebi () was a student protesting for freedom in Iran. After he appeared on the cover of the Economist, he spent a decade in prison, often enduring torture. 20 years later he’s a proud US citizen. For many immigrants is more than just a holiday

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    “The Chinese govt was never held accountable by the intl community for this atrocity in 2009. The failure to act emboldened the Chinese govt to pursue even more repressive measures, now resulting in the internment of millions of innocent people." - WUC President

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    Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the , where thousands of protestors were killed/disappeared/injured, WUC calls on the intl community not to repeat mistakes of the past & finally hold accountable for crimes against humanity.

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  20. Jul 4
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    Jul 3

    Royal Marines have boarded an oil tanker on its way to thought to be breaching EU sanctions, the government of Gibraltar has said. ⁦

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