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20 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Multiple sources report @Centcom confirming US base at at-Tanf on the Syria-Jordan-Iraqi border was attacked by drones. I have not seen an official statement. @PentagonPresSec
Turkey might be coordinating, so I'd keep an eye on N Syria. @DefenseIntel @USSOCOM
Still nothing official. This long and nothing official on something this significant tells me it's not as reported. We'll see.
Looked at the @flightradar24 data and IMO it's unlikely there was a drone attack. Syrian air traffic seems to be flying right over our base. Nobody would do that after making a drone attack. I think something is going on. But it's not as reported.
Over two hours and no actual official statement. Just Twitter accounts claiming to have knowledge of one. I'm moving this at-Tanf/al-Tanf airstrike story as simply propaganda that a lot of people bit on. @AP brat so I was taught to verify it.

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Then the parliamentarian rules it requires 60 and the majority leader calls for a vote to overrule the parliamentarian. That vote can pass on 51 votes and when it does, no more filibuster.
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1. Because the threat posed by TFG & his violent anti-democratic acolytes THE major national security threat and people obstructing Congress are openly planning and another attack, the @TheJusticeDept is not the only government institution with equities regarding what
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1. "The freedom-loving Mujahideen and the young resistance fighters of Nahrin city, Baghlan province, today started their armed struggle against the aggressors and foreign occupiers under the leadership of the young commander Ahmad Massoud and Commander Saleh Mohammad Rigistan,
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- This morning at 'most-senior levels' G-20 meeting, Biden and Blinken addressed Afghanistan with world leaders.

Addresses the Taliban as a caretaker government.
3. One reporter is raising the fact that conduct conditions are already showing the Taliban behaving badly. Now he's addressing Taliban human rights as "inconsistent with what the Taliban has pledged."
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