Syria is free. The rebels won. The people liberated themselves from tyranny. Freedom won. Russia, Iran, Hezbollah & Assad lost. Historic. The road ahead for Syria won’t be easy. But it will be better than the past. The world should celebrate Syria’s liberation & help it succeed.
Ukraine is going to win, too. Let’s hope it doesn’t take 14 years like it did for the Syrians. If we had helped the Syrians more, this would have happened sooner. Let’s not make that same mistake with Ukraine now. Dictatorships are brittle. People refuse to live on their knees.
For anyone saying this will lead to a slaughter of Christians: I interviewed the Bishop of Aleppo. He told me his community members are safe and give Syrians credit for being able to live together. He said don’t fall for the propaganda that Assad was the protector of Christians.
Chinese hackers linked to Beijing’s Ministry of State Security have burrowed inside the private wiretapping and surveillance system that American telecom companies built for the exclusive use of U.S. federal law enforcement agencies - they continue to have access to the system. Millions of mobile-phone users on the networks of at least three major U.S. carriers could thus be ongoingly vulnerable to Chinese government surveillance.
Several officials told me that targets identified by the intelligence community also include senior U.S. government officials and top business leaders.
“It is much more serious and much worse than even what you all presume at this point,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman @SenatorWarner (D-Virginia) said. “It is one of the most serious breaches in my time on the Intelligence Committee.”
"Tower 22", the U.S. base in NE Jordan where three American troops were just killed, overlooks a Syrian refugee camp called Rukban, where 15,000 people have been living for years. It is also near the Al-Tanf Garrison, where a couple hundred U.S. troops are based.
This is a crucial node between Iraq and Syria that Iranian militias have long sought to control. There have been several drone attacks on Tanf since Oct. 7. This is a brazen escalation.
The group that will claim responsibility calls themselves the "Islamic Resistance of Iraq," but that's really a post Oct 7 umbrella group of IRGC sponsored militias. The actual attackers were likely Kateeb Hizballah with support of Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujab and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
Concentration camp survivors Ms. Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Ms. Qelbinur Sidik testified about being arrested for no reason, tortured, indoctrinated, mistreated and now threatened that their family will suffer if they speak out. @committeeonccp#UyghurGenocide
The State Department's new human rights report on Saudi Arabia is damning. This is just the summary list of abuses:
"Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearances;...
...torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by government agents; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; political prisoners or detainees; transnational repression against individuals in another country;...
...serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; punishment of family members for alleged offenses by a relative; serious abuses in a conflict, including related to civilian casualties...
"Beijing’s latest, horrible abuse of the Tibetan people is to forcibly collect their DNA, their last remaining vestige of privacy. What’s worse, U.S. companies are still working with the authorities perpetrating these atrocities..."
The Chinese government is leveraging technology, including artificial intelligence and big data, to identify people by their faces, their voices, their individual styles of walking and, now, even their cellular makeup...