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Independent researcher focused on Syria and terrorism | History digressions, particularly on the Cold War | Likes are just bookmarks. RTs = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

London and Wirral, Britain
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    18 Dec 2018

    The waged an undeclared war against through terrorists and rejectionist states. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has retained alliances with such actors, notably , and sees Israel as an extension of America, the "Main Adversary".

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  2. 4 hours ago

    Apparently he's never heard of ... he's for sure heard of , though, where Mao inflicted a more devastating famine than Stalin: the gentleman advertises in his bio the fact he writes for Chinese Communist Party propaganda sheets.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    If you defy classification laws passed by an elected Parliament and decide you individually (or with some helpers at The Mail on Sunday) know what is in the public interest, you have to be prepared for some disagreement from the Crown Prosecution Service.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    Ferhat Abdi Shahin, the commander of the , says: his forces have stockpiled weapons to use against , that the SDF will allow an revival if the US doesn't protect them from Ankara, and pretends to agree to the safe zone but conditions it on Turkey leaving Efrin

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  5. 10 hours ago

    Testimony from Afghan soldiers and police, who continue taking heavy casualties from the jihadists. They can see the sell-out being prepared by the West and it is robbing any remaining will they have to resist the re-Talibanization of |

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  6. 11 hours ago

    A delegation met with Iranian representatives at the Embassy in yesterday, and a HAMAS delegation led by the military chief arrived in itself today. HAMAS is apparently expecting "important results".

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  7. 11 hours ago

    Izmir Koch, originally from Turkey, stood outside a restaurant in Dayton, Ohio, asking people if they were Jewish. When Paul Marshall said he was [he isn't], Koch beat him, injuring his ribs and fracturing his eye socket. Koch got 30 months in prison.

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    13 hours ago

    EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Thomas Gardiner, Labour's head of governance and legal, declined to suspend a member earlier this year who allegedly: • racially abused a black staff member in front of two witnesses • said Lab MPs had an app to receive orders from Israel

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    16 hours ago

    A newspaper I have kept for 50 years just so I could tweet it today. 😁 What’s really remarkable is just how friggin huge newspapers were back in the day. I believe paper boys/girls used forklift trucks to make their deliveries...

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    14 hours ago

    Kosovo’s prime minister resigned Friday after being invited for questioning by a Hague-based court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after the country’s 1998-99 war

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    14 hours ago

    |n govt death toll from the July 9 attack now at 37+3 captured 15 of the killed were from Damascus, mostly members of the 11th Border Guard Regiment. They came from the region (5) (4) (4) & north (2)

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  12. 13 hours ago

    This new Twitter layout has had a fair run and it's not working. As so often, the need is for counter-revolution.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jul 19

    reveals the US & British intelligence mission to hunt and kill notorious terrorist Mohammed Emwazi. It also features powerful testimonies from his surviving hostages and the families of those he killed. Watch the powerful trailer here:

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    What propelled ISIS terrorist Mohammed Emwazi’s journey down a violent path? Unmasking Jihadi John: Anatomy of a Terrorist premieres July 31 at 8 PM on .
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    Jul 19

    Ruslan Asainov, a naturalized American from Kazakhstan, was allegedly an emir with the Islamic State, trained their snipers, and among other things tried to recruit an FBI informant.

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    23 hours ago

    Iraqi authorities are preparing what will effectively be a confinement camp for tens of thousands of Iraqis with perceived links to ISIS who are currently stuck in Syria:

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  16. Jul 19

    The sanctions under which Britain seized the Iranian ship that was trying to feed Asad's genocidal war machine were from the European Union, that notoriously Trumpian entity. As ever, Parsi says: if you try to curb 's criminality, you force it to behave criminally.

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  17. Jul 19

    +1. If the Islamic Republic is ever brought down it'll be by it's own hubris (which I suppose you can indirectly credit the West for: had we not been so feeble for so long, Tehran would never have been emboldened into whatever lethal mistake it makes.)

    I guess what I'm trying to say is: the Mullah's confidence is its worst enemy.
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  18. Jul 19

    Frank Dikötter argues what is obviously true: the Chinese Communists' slaughter of 45 million people (1958-62) should be recognized in the category of historic crimes with Stalin's Soviet Union and the Nazi Holocaust.

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  19. Jul 19

    Mao's regime killed 45 million people in four years (1958-62) with a "staggering degree of state violence" as it tried to impose Communism on . Throughout the far longer, by-definition global Second World War, 55 million people were killed.

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    Jul 19

    Asked by about why the US doesn’t help and feed 20,000+ internally displaced Syrians in Rukban refugee camp, in southeast Syria, James Jeffrey says, “If we feed them, it will come across that we will be staying long term... And we can’t guarantee that...”

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