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@KyleWOrton

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

London and Wirral, Britain
Joined April 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    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 hours ago

    Last night, conducted massive searches in detainment camp of in , according to a source at place. Everything that possibly could be used as weapon was seized — including scissors, razor blades and nail clippers (1/3)

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  3. Princess Yasmine, wife of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi of , is 51-years-old today.

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    14 minutes ago

    The latest civilian casualty report has just published, with admissions of 2 further deaths and 3 injuries bringing the official Coalition tally in the war against ISIS to at least 1,321 civilian fatalities. Our own estimate is at least 8,106 to 12,980 killed.

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  5. On the plus side, the end of all things in September 2020 means we get to avoid the November 2020 US Election.

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    My Deiri Source,confirmed by Anadolu,have stated that the IRGC commander,Qasem Soleimani has visited Al-Bukamal&T-2 yesterday,along a massive reinforcement of Iraqi Hashd Forces,Qasem Soleimani has told his forces to prepare for war with the United States and its Allies

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    : According to , the released from to was a "tourist" detained in . Perhaps this?

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  9. 1 hour ago

    Probably impedes the "SDF's" capacity to act as an anti-Iran force a little bit, if it can't/won't even clear IRGC out of the zones under its nominal control.

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  10. 1 hour ago

    Recent visitor to , the zone held by our / partner force ("the Syrian Kurds"), remarked on how unexpectedly heavy and open was the presence of the / system in Qamishli, holding all the key security nodes, an unchanged fact for the duration of this war.

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    Germany nears recession: -industry has biggest slump since financial crisis -business morale tanks -not just cars, 80% factories in contraction -manufacturing across Eurozone drops to levels of 2012 debt crisis

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  12. 2 hours ago

    The Gülen people turn up at all the interfaith meetings, particularly with Jewish groups, and say all the right things. But they were Erdogan's allies until 2013, responsible for some of the worst of the abuses against the seculars, and they're Islamists!

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  13. 2 hours ago

    The Ikhwan is not the only cultish Islamist movement that uses these tactics. But because the Gülenists are anti-Erdogan they get a free pass. Yet their use of these tactics has been at least as effective as MB in infiltrating the elites of various states.

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  14. 2 hours ago

    The Ameircan Right, in particular, has become seized of the problem of the Muslim Brotherhood recently, and one facet of this has been noticing that the MB also acts as a social movement, running summer camps, sports events, and study circles, where it talent spots and recruits.

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  15. 2 hours ago

    It's intolerable for 's government to be able to dictate which events can take place on US soil. Such events should be held simply as a statement of defiance. The uncritical coverage of Enes Kanter is really troublesome, though.

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    Fun update on my thread ⬇️about the , which revealed that the organization only has 91 members. The new list they've been forced to disclosed shows that, as of July 15, that number has dropped to 69. The temerity of these guys, pretending to speak for a community!

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    President Marianne Williamson would’ve already had A$AP Rocky teleported back to the U.S. through mind power alone.

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  19. 4 hours ago

    Erdoğan Ünal, the senior official responsible for "instigating" the assassination of the Turkish diplomat in Erbil on 24 July, has been "neutralised", seemingly with an airstrike on Qandil, according to the Turkish Defence Ministry.

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  20. 4 hours ago

    One of Corbyn's most devoted propagandists is a racist.

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    SCOOP: tells me that he called Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday—at the request of —to urge Turkey not to *activate* the S-400 in exchange for no sanctions and a possible free trade deal with the U.S.

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