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Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Amb Nathan Sales @StateDeptCT tells @AJCGlobal about newly revealed cases of #Hezbollah stockpiling caches of ammonium nitrate in ice-packs across Europe.
These have been moved thru Belgium, to France, Greece, Italy, Spain & Switzerland--explosives 4 future plots in Europe
2. Amb Sales @StateDeptCT @AJCGlobal that ammonium nitrate ice pack caches also found &/or destroyed in France, Greece and Italy. Additional LH ammonium nitrate ice packs may still exist in Greece, Italy, and Spain
3. German Min Elgelke notes that prior to banning #Hezbollah authorities found "substantial amounts" of ammonium nitrate in ice packs in Southern Germany. Cannot say more here, he explains, bc this was an intelligence operation.
4. Min Engelke adds that in raids carried out at 2 associations & some private homes at the time of the #Hezbollah designation revealed significant Hezbollah propaganda & "a limited number of weapons"

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Oct 6
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It's been a long, painful year since the #Hamas massacre of Oct 7. Here's a look back at my writing this year, starting with a @ForeignAffairs article on Oct 11 on "The War Hamas Always Wanted"

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2. Next was a look at "The New Middle East: Hamas Attack, Israel at War, and US Policy," together with @robsatloff @EhudYaariJLM #NeomiNeumann & @GhAlOmari @WashInstitutewashingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
3. Soon came the anniversary of the 1983 #Hezbollah bombing of the US Marine & French military peacekeepers, which prompted me to write on the "Echoes of 1983 Beirut Bombings in Current Iranian Proxy Escalation" @WashInstitute washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
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May 11, 2022
Some Middle East-themed takeaways from @ODNIgov Haines' annual threat assessment testimony, a thread:armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
2. No comment on China in Mideast, but notes "CCP is increasing its criticism of perceived U.S. failures and hypocrisy, including the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and racial tensions in the United States"
3. Russia: In the Middle East and North Africa, Moscow is using its involvement in Syria, Libya, and Sudan to increase its clout, undercut U.S. leadership, present itself as an indispensable mediator, and gain military access rights and economic opportunities.
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Mar 10, 2022
Breaking: @STLebanon appeal chamber reverses acquittals & convicts Merhi & Oneissi, including on charge of conspiracy aimed at committing a terrorist act, ie #Hezbollah murder of #RafiqHariri
2. The @STLebanon Appeals Chamber does, however, find that the Trial Chamber committed an error of fact by failing to find that Mr Badreddine was a #Hezbollah military commander in 2004 and 2005
3. The @STLebanon Appeals Chamber also finds that the Trial Chamber erred in both law and fact by holding that written statements from unavailable witnesses showing that the Green Network was a #Hezbollah network were not corroborated
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Mar 9, 2022
Ep 5 of ‘Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule’ dropped today. We start by discussing #Hezbollah’s shadow war with the West, foiled attacks in #Cyprus, a bus bombing in #Bulgaria, and LH’s shifting modus operandi
@WashInstitute
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2. On Feb 12, 2008, Imad #Mughniyeh was killed in a joint @CIA -Mossad op near Damascus. A bomb was placed in his car’s spare tire. Fearing he would be next, #Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan #Nasrallah warned Israel to expect an “open war” Image
3. #Hezbollah was desperate to avenge Mughniyeh’s death. The problem was, they weren’t very successful. Operations in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and West Africa were all foiled
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Feb 28, 2022
In this month’s cover of @CTCWP I look at the who/what/where/when/why/how of Iranian external assassination, surveillance, & abduction plots, based on a personal dataset. ctc.usma.edu/february-2022/

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2. This study is based on a dataset that includes 98 cases of assassination, abduction, attack, & surveillance plots by the #Iran regime from Dec 1979–Dec 2021 Image
3. WHO is targeted by #Iran? Of the 98 cases, 42 target dissidents, 31 target Jews/Israelis, 24 target diplomats, 24 target Western interests, & 7 target Gulf interests (note: some cases target multiple) Image
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Feb 3, 2022
Thread 🧵re SOF raid that took out ISIS leader Qurayshi:
1. Like previous administrations, Biden seeks to get out of 'endless wars' and pivot from Mideast to Asia. Adversaries get a vote, however, so CT efforts must continue. Biden: we will come after you.
2. CT efforts should be seen not in terms of victory or defeat, but rather as an ongoing effort— short of both war and peace—in which both lethal and nonlethal tools are employed to compete with adversaries and disrupt acts of terrorism washingtoninstitute.org/media/4359
3. CT officials very focused on making sure any shift in CT policy seeks a maximum return on US 20-year investment in CT while preserving the many advances made during this period. With fewer troops on ground, looking to leverage opportunities to keep adversaries off balance
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