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Alastair Thompson

27 Jul, 12 tweets, 6 min read

This new publication on a U.S. publication which services Homeland Security communities, Central Govt., State and corporate provides a glimpse behind the curtain WRT US security interests views on the Tigray War.

Warning: Might be triggering....
hstoday.us/subject-matter…

The authors are certainly qualified:
Hafsa Mohamed: Bio hstoday.us/author/hmohame…
& Mohamed Ahmed
hstoday.us/author/mahmed/

twitter.com/search?q=https…

At this link you can see who has tweeted the link. The article is relatively new and so has not yet been picked up in a significant way by the TPLF community.
twitter.com/search?q=https…

Presumably these people are Homeland Security professionals. This one is a minimalist tweeter, but tweeted the link to Reda G. with what looks like a suggestion that assassination is an option.

@AbiyAhmedAli

The bulk of the article is a historic recap, which reads superficially like an academic article. And then it turns to what is clearly its primary purpose, as a hit piece on @AbiyAhmedAli.

A couple of paragraphs earlier we get a hint at where this is going with a reference to Abiy acting as an authoritarian in relation to the removal of Somali Region president Abdi Mohamoud Omar by force. The article links to an Abiy video [] as a reference.

The article doesn't mention the start of the war, just that there is one. And when it is mentioned implies it was started personally, by Abiy.

The one reference to the TPLF in the article refers to the fact that the TPLF supported him when he became interim leader.

In the conclusion the Abiy is cast as a Chinese and Russian collaborator, which in the Homeland Security community is equivalent to saying an enemy of the US.

And then calls for intervention

@AP

The citation referenced in this final paragraph is to an article by @AP about UNSC deliberations back in March. apnews.com/article/russia…

The link to the Editorial Guidelines on the page is broken but I have found them here. The editor's email address for complaints is >> editor@hstoday.us hstoday.us/wp-content/upl…

The publication is owned by gtscoalition.com an organisation of contractors/corporations who work with the U.S. Govt. Homeland Security apparatus.

About >> gtscoalition.com/about-us/

This article is one of the most egregious pieces of misinformation I have seen, and in this conflict I have seen a lot. It is particularly dangerous because of the audience of this publication. Not a large audience (similarweb.com/website/hstoda…) but one that is influential.

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