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gregorydjohnsen After reading NYT this morning and watching #frontline tonight I'm more convinced than ever that the US is making serious mistakes in #Yemen about 8 hours ago via web Retweeted by curtiskj and 20 others
frontlinepbs Missed "Al Qaeda in Yemen?" No problem. Watch it online anytime (US) ow.ly/bewH1 Transcript here: ow.ly/bewZr #Frontline about 8 hours ago via HootSuite Retweeted by curtiskj and 21 others
I only saw the tail end of Ghaith's report from Yemen on #Frontline but looked *really* good. Will have to watch the full episode tomorrow. about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck
gregorydjohnsen And it is exactly these clerics along with #Yemen's tribes who are the only ones capable of defeating AQAP. #frontline about 8 hours ago via web Retweeted by curtiskj and 9 others
gregorydjohnsen Hours before #frontline film clerics in #Yemen met with Pres Hadi warned him against getting too close to US because of drones about 8 hours ago via web Retweeted by curtiskj and 7 others
DaveedGR Ghaith Abdul Ahad's reporting from Yemen was ballsy. Impressive, hard hitting, courageous, and informative journalism. #frontline about 8 hours ago via web Retweeted by curtiskj and 5 others
UNWTO #UNWTO does not have an Ambassadors Programme. An Open Letter calling for support for #tourism was sent to all Heads of Member States about 14 hours ago via HootSuite Retweeted by curtiskj and 39 others
veterantraveler More than 560,000 veterans from all wars currently have VA claims that are backlogged -- older than 125 days. Welcome home :-( about 13 hours ago via HootSuite Retweeted by curtiskj
andylevy Siri, search "Nobel Peace Prize winner" and "kill list" about 14 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by curtiskj and 264 others
thatpolicyguy people who use AOL+logs of what they searched for=joy, so much joy via @geneweingarten's chat somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/… somethingawful.com/d/weekend-web/… about 14 hours ago via web Retweeted by curtiskj
Yep. RT @povdocs There are more than one million Gypsies living in America, and most people know nothing about them - to.pbs.org/Kv8qXC about 14 hours ago via TweetDeck
RT @HamaEcho "Please don't come again...." - Sign held during UN observers visit to Kafranbel, #Idlib today. #Syria twitpic.com/9qq9fd about 14 hours ago via TweetDeck
borzou #Syria: Increasingly looks like Bashar's end will be less Saleh/Ben Ali/Mubarak and more Gaddafi/Ceausescu/Scarface about 15 hours ago via Timely by Demandforce Retweeted by curtiskj and 61 others
wjrue This @conor64 column in defense of @chrislhayes is worth your time. Read the concluding Qs. Lots of food for thought theatlantic.com/politics/archi… about 17 hours ago via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by curtiskj and 3 others
RT @b_fung Fascinating: income inequality, as seen from space (and measured by the presence of urban greenery) bit.ly/M2Yysq about 16 hours ago via TweetDeck
RT @jenanmoussa A tok tok modified into a tank, sort of, in #homs: bit.ly/L1KKcJ (v @emmasuleiman) #syria (@akhbar) about 16 hours ago via TweetDeck
baldaufji Declining child mortality in Africa: an effect of prosperity, enhanced aid — or both? (CSM) csmonitor.com/World/Africa/A… about 17 hours ago via web Retweeted by curtiskj
clairesgould "Men use the internet to expand their enormous brains..while ladies shop and chat." bit.ly/LCCxhU #actuallylaughedoutloudatwork about 18 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by curtiskj
#Nairobi blast: Could have been Al Shabab or a 'lone wolf' sympathizer bit.ly/KOGWxs via @CSMWorldDesk about 17 hours ago via TweetDeck
clarnic Nairobi blast was bomb attack: Kenya police bit.ly/JSvxJ3 via Reuters No claim of responsibility yet. Police seek 2 suspects about 19 hours ago via web Retweeted by curtiskj and 7 others

Name Kimberly J. Curtis
Location Washington, DC
Web http://foreignpol...
Bio Lawyer and Senior Blogger for Humanitarian Affairs for the Foreign Policy Association. Africaphile, kitty lover, general wanderer to wherever things may go.