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RanjAlaaldin

DPStrieff Nothing a full chin implant can't fix. “@TIME: Texting may cause "smartphone face" - plastic surgeons | ti.me/KdzAFC ” 4:42 AM May 31st via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by RanjAlaaldin
Excellent RT @DAaronovitch looking forward to the Stop The War campaign to insist Iranian troops be withdrawn from Syria. Over to you, folks 4:29 PM May 28th via web
Clearly Shell not reassured by existing conditions plus forecasts 4 future political and security environment, though not as simple as this 4:14 PM May 28th via web
Where are those who said #Libya intervention was for the oil? The silence is deafening: foxbusiness.com/news/2012/05/2… 4:13 PM May 28th via web
@CjvHenderson Not really,was thinkin more along lines of Iraq type war - taking ur interpetation, one cud say proxywar there even b4uprising 10:34 AM May 28th via web in reply to CjvHenderson
#Iran's confirmed presence in #Syria defeats the argument widely being made now that fall of Assad will not lead to a regional proxy war 9:15 AM May 28th via web
....and whoever wants to confront Assad will be confronting Iran's most experienced and potent special forces operatives." @Meir_J 9:13 AM May 28th via web
@Meir_J: "By making such an admission now, Iran may...well be wishing to send the message that when it comes 2 Syria the gloves are off.... 9:13 AM May 28th via web
Excellent comments from @Meir_J in Guardian piece on confirmed Iranian presence in #Syria: guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may… #Iran 9:12 AM May 28th via web
@MattscottLibya And it hasn't even been a year since the regime fell...#Libya 7:54 AM May 24th via web in reply to MattscottLibya
@JomanaCNN @MattscottLibya Especially when the world was predicting civil war and a failed state #Libya 7:48 AM May 24th via web in reply to JomanaCNN
#Libya interim PM Abdurrahim al-Kib in London to discuss reconstruction among other things - how relevant will he be after elections? 7:44 AM May 24th via web
@fanarhaddad Welcome back, look forward to knowing all about it very soon 7:42 AM May 24th via web
@IraqiPolitics @reidarvisser Not necessarily, depends on what they're offered (naturally) 7:42 AM May 24th via web in reply to IraqiPolitics
A woman wins Benghazi local elections & little 2 nothing about it 4rm the media. #Libyans get used 2this, bombs, not ballot boxes, make news 7:38 AM May 24th via web
@reidarvisser Indeed, they may be wavering but when push comes to shove... 5:54 AM May 24th via web in reply to reidarvisser
@reidarvisser resig makes rapproach impossible, intensifying conflict 2point where others must dcide on whether 2back or oust Maliki, no? 7:52 AM May 23rd via web in reply to reidarvisser
@reidarvisser Wouldn't Talabani resignation constitute point of no return? 7:38 AM May 23rd via web in reply to reidarvisser
Institutions will protect #Libyan rights: my latest 4 @CMECNEWS on banning the glorification of the former regime cmec.org.uk/blog/instituti… 10:24 AM May 21st via web
hentove Demonstrators in #Iraq (Basra) burn #Turkish flags for interference bit.ly/K3oNvT 1:48 PM May 20th via web Retweeted by RanjAlaaldin and 2 others

Name Ranj Alaaldin
Location London
Web http://www.ranjal...
Bio Senior Analyst at the Next Century Foundation; doing a doctorate at the LSE. All tweets my own.