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@KyleWOrton

Focus on Syria and terrorism (jihadism, PKK, etc.) Occasional digressions on history, especially of the Cold War. Likes are just bookmarks. RTs are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

London and Wirral, Britain
Joined April 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Dec 2018

    "Zionism is Making Us Stupid": The Russian Relationship with Israel from the Soviets to Putin

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  2. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    Excited that has now posted on their website for preorder. I‘m greatly indebted to 3 colleagues & for their support in helping convince Cornell to approve this kick ass cover image!

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    I've seen more fucked up things in Syria than i dare count, yet somehow i can still be shocked. Assadist militias burying a man alive.

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  4. 1 hour ago

    Lewis Ludlow (Ali Hussain), former Royal Mail worker, was convicted in August for planning to drive a car into crowds on Oxford Street on behalf of . Was under intense surveillance by then. He had been working with PREVENT, but had resisted it.

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    2 hours ago

    Today in Istanbul, Turkey, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople granted the decree of independence (tomos) to ’s new unified Orthodox . Spiritual break from is now complete:

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  6. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    Pro tip: you’re not serious if you think that the Islamic Republic has not pursued a nuclear weapons program (yes, it’s a thing).

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Inevitable that someone like Ellen DeGeneres would be un-personed. Most important thing in the midst of a Cultural Revolution is not subjugating the infidels, but preventing breakaways from the cult by raising the cost for even minor dissidence. Pour encourager les autres.

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  8. 2 hours ago

    has allocated 1 million Lira "for the restoration of the road leading to the [Christian] Syriacs’ Mor Gabriel Monastery" in the Midyat province. There is an ongoing land dispute around the church.

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  9. 2 hours ago

    James Jeffrey, the Special Representative for Syria Engagement, is now taking over from Brett McGurk as the U.S. representative to the anti- Coalition, a positive development within the confines of an overall catastrophe.

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  10. 2 hours ago

    The U.S. has "a color-coded map" that they're using to try to "negotiate a power-sharing plan" between and in northern Syria. One former U.S. official described the map as "Sykes-Picot on acid". So that's encouraging.

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  11. 2 hours ago

    It's difficult to imagine invading 200 miles to reach Deir Ezzor under any conditions. But ... Play out the thought experiment. If they do, places the Turks in a vulnerable spot with the Asad coalition and PKK. US air support seems a minimum requirement. DoD resisting:

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  12. 2 hours ago

    Some allowances have to be made for the sources being Pentagon/CENTCOM, who have consistently downplayed 's capacity in for political reasons, and who are currently smarting at the pullout decision and the disengagement that entails from /. Still ...

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  13. 2 hours ago

    will ask the US at the Jan. 8 meetings in Ankara for extensive support - airstrikes, transport, logistics - to finish the job against . "The Turkish requests.., if fully met,...might be deepening [US] involvement in Syria instead of reducing it"

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  14. 3 hours ago

    It took a decade and nearly £2m to get jihadi cleric Umar Othman (Abu Qatada) out of Britain, and we carried on paying for him to the tune of £200,000 for three years afterwards. This was for "welfare visits" to ensure his good health in Jordan.

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  15. 3 hours ago

    Good for the , condemning Trump's mockery of his allies' sacrifices in and the disgusting justification for the Soviet conquest and massacre of the country.

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    14 hours ago

    “Long live the Shah.” man writes slogan on gate of paramilitary Basij base in .

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  17. Withdraw the military and send in the narrative architects. Should work a treat.

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  18. Jamal al-Badawi, one of the key al-Qaeda operatives in the U.S.S. Cole attack that killed 17 US sailors and wounded 39, was killed in an airstrike in the Marib province of on 1 January.

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  19. "'s central goal in is to stabilise the Asad regime, and...[its] whole position...rests on . ... In this sense, with Iran the driving force of events in the Levant, Moscow is once again party to an undeclared war against Israel."

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  20. Netanyahu initiated a telephone conversation with Putin, declaring they have joint interests in , from defeating terrorism [ directly supports ] to finding a political solution [ISR wants out, RUS relies on Iran staying].

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  21. A Twitter spokesman said "deliberate attempt[s] to undermine and disrupt the health of the public conversation has absolutely no place on our service". He doesn't use Twitter much himself, obviously.

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