Daniele Raineri

@DanieleRaineri

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    8 Jun 2015

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  2. 9 hours ago

    Despite their defiant attitude, the protesters in Baghdad fear a brutal operation to eradicate them from Tahrir Square

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  3. 9 hours ago

    The logistics of Baghdad protests: holding three bridges in sequence over the Tigris to put pressure on the government and to better protect the center of the protests in Tahrir Square

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  4. 10 hours ago

    Today after the lynching in Wathba Square I felt a difference between the Tahrir protesters of the first wave and those who joined later from outside

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  5. 10 hours ago

    Iraqi protests - two months and counting - in Baghdad. It’s an experiment. There’s much more than just political struggle

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  6. Dec 11

    Clashes in Baghdad, near Khulani. In a makeshift ambulatory

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  7. Dec 11

    Gunmen used Molotovs to burn one of the stairs leading to the rooftop, to trap the protesters there. The ones who fled told me that soldiers opened the checkpoints to protect them. I saw a lot of knife wounds - attackers started the Sinak massacre with knives that night

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  8. Dec 11

    The rooftop of the Sinak garage in Baghdad. Here the gunmen had the time to tie the hands of a few protesters while burning two tents, kill them in cold blood and throw at least three bodies down in the street - last Friday

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  9. Dec 11

    This is the Sinak garage in Baghdad, where gunmen killed at least 20 protesters last Friday. I thought it was a quick drive by shooting, but talking to witnesses I realized it was a slow paced and very aggressive operation, designed to intimidate the protesters there

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  10. Dec 11

    I'm in Baghdad to report from Tahrir Square about the protests, less covered than many battles against the Islamic State but arguably more significant

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  11. Dec 6

    Unbelievable. Today asked Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi Di Maio about the presence of Russians in Libya. The minister answered: "We haven't verified yet. Libyans and Americans said that. Today I didn't talk to Lavrov about that". Italy in a state of denial

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  12. Dec 5

    In July they released the pledge of allegiance to Baghdadi most certainly recorded months earlier. Now they release footage of operations they did last spring. They are projecting a strength they don't have. Totally irrelevant in the Great Game of Libya (<– is this an op-ed?)

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  13. Dec 5

    Mind you, at this point we are watching a ghost convoy. The group took two heavy blows and most of those fighters are dead 1) An LNA raid in their favorite hideout near the volcanic field of al Haruj in June 2) A wave of US airstrikes in September

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  14. Dec 5

    Here a long thread about that sub-group

    Islamic State in Libya: six media releases since the start of the civil war near Tripoli on April 4, the first tagged "Barqah" and the others tagged "Fezzan". This is the area of operations for now
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  15. Dec 5

    Also, we see for the first time in video that "convoy of marauders" of the Islamic State in Libya which targeted a few military bases between April and May this year. Nine vehicles in Central Libya

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  16. Dec 5

    My understanding is that Malik al Khazmi, a leader of the Islamic State in Libya, had been wounded in the right leg above the knee. I suspect that the guy without the right leg is (or was?) Malik al Khazmi. Here what I gathered about him

    Malik al Khazmi allegedly is responsible for the Zliten bombing in 2016, worst terrorist attack in Libya – a water truck rigged with explosives got access to the police academy in Zliten, more than 60 killed
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  17. Dec 5

    Already seen in September 2017 and in April this year

    Libyan Islamic State released the photos of the recent raid in al Fuqaha, central Libya. Again on the scene: the man without the right leg – already seen in a video about a previous raid in al Fuqaha released in September…
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  18. Dec 5

    We see again an old acquaintance, the leader without the right leg of the Islamic State in Libya. Twice

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  19. Dec 5

    Since the Islamic State in Libya has recycled a great deal of material in the latest video, the best thing to do would be to refer back to some old threads Here a geolocation thread to confirm: it's stale stuff

    Daesh in Libya publish new video today (31 mins). Nothing new though. Majority of the footage is from their raids on Ghadduwah (غدوة) in 's south. Still from the video below was filmed as Islamic State fighters…
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  20. Dec 4

    Latest video of the Islamic State in Libya released today, 31 mins, mostly footage of the raids in al Fuqaha and Ghadduwah, between April and May this year. The quality is excellent, we already have the pictures though. In short: same soup, just reheated

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    Nov 20

    In Libia le milizie di Haftar hanno abbattuto un drone italiano È successo a Tarhouna, ottanta chilometri a sud di Tripoli, dove i velivoli italiani compiono voli di sorveglianza e senza armi. Il duello nei cieli e un segnale all'Italia -

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  22. Nov 11

    Correction: according to the latest version I hear from there, they were patrolling on foot and then on the way back they accepted a short ride on a Kurdish Forces light truck to return to their vehicles – the truck triggered the IED

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  23. Nov 10

    The five Italian soldiers were injured when someone stepped on a pressure plate IED. One of the soldiers lost his legs, according to info I’m getting from Baghdad. Part of Kirkuk province is still residually infested by the Islamic State

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  24. Nov 10

    Breaking. Five Italian soldiers of Task Force 44 (Special Forces) hit by an improvised explosive device in Kirkuk province, Iraq, at 12 local time. Three seriously wounded, now in Baghdad.

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  25. Retweeted
    Nov 4

    Turkey captures sister of dead IS leader in Syria: Turkish officials

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  26. Nov 4

    The Story of Baghdadi's Gun

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  27. Retweeted
    Nov 3
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    Yes, this is his image, which is found in the archives of Iraqi military intelligence, and his real name is Zaher al-Shehri

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  28. Nov 3

    According to al Arabiya, which has just got a lot of stuff from Iraqi intel, this was the face of Abul Hasan al Muhajir. Apparently he spent time in jail, no surprise. Link, minute 2:15

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  29. Nov 3

    * According to the chatter in progress on telegram channels of Islamic State supporters * that guy would be Abul Hasan al Muhajir, Saudi spokesman of the Islamic State (joined AQI since 2004) killed one week ago. Seen in that last Baghdadi video released in April 2019

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    Nov 1

    How did the Islamic State pick its new leader? In a new piece for , I look at what we can learn about the extremist group's internal succession mechanisms from how it announced the name of its new leader.

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  31. Nov 1

    Al Zawi, white beard, midst of picture, revealed the identity of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. October-December 2010, that was the first big security crisis for Baghdadi. Media obtained his pic from Camp Bucca. Baghdadi survived many other crises in the next nine years

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  32. Nov 1

    Anyway from that network disrupted in Baghdad the Iraqi security forces switched to al Anbar province and captured a man in Ramadi: Hazim al Zawi, a top leader, minister of security of the Islamic State in Iraq (and cousin of Abu Umar al Baghdadi, predecessor of Abu Bakr)

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  33. Nov 1

    You can see the security measures when Battawi confessed on camera the details of the attack. Five months later he and his companions tried to evade, an urban battle ensued, they were killed (an Apache helicopter had to intervene from above)

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  34. Nov 1

    Here the story. The Islamic State of Iraq attacked the Church of Our Salvation Lady in October. Iraqi security forces reacted arresting dozens of people and dismantling the network in Baghdad. Among them the Wali of Baghdadi, Hudhayfa al Battawi (a dentist from Basra)

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  35. Nov 1

    The Islamic State of Iraq announced Abu Bakr al Baghdadi as the group's new leader on May 16 2010. We had to wait almost seven months for his real identity – until December 1 2010. This time things will be faster

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    Oct 31

    ISIS confirms al-Baghdadi’s death and names successor

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  37. Oct 31

    And another pic of that flag (2015). Of course I don't know of any correlation with the new leader of the Islamic State. IF any (big IF), that name is inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq – the revered and most trusted core of the group's leadership

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  38. Oct 31

    One of the most famous training camp of the Islamic State in al Anbar was named after Abu Ibrahim al Zaidi – see this famous pic released in 2013

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  39. Oct 31

    Appointed in May 2010 together with Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, he also was Wali of al Anbar – one of the areas where the Islamic State of Iraq was stronger. Here the pic from Camp Bucca, coupled with Baghdadi's – we had to wait months for their real names

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  40. Oct 31

    Since the Hashimi and Qurashi angles are widely covered, I'm going with the "Abu Ibrahim" bit. The one Abu Ibrahim I remember is Abu Ibrahim al Zaidi, much admired minister of War of the Islamic State of Iraq killed in 2011

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  41. Oct 31

    While we are wasting time on the lineage of some bad guy from Tal Afar – Qurashi or not? – young Iraqis are in the streets asking for sweeping reforms in their country

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