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26 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What is known is that these types of drones have appeared in Iraq at PMU events; #DroneWars;
For instance @FarzinNadimi and @Mikeknightsiraq wrote "The admission of Sahab/Samad fixed-wing drones is also interesting considering their closeness to the KAS-04 (Samad-type) systems used in at least five drone attacks on U.S. facilities since April 2021."
"Another prominent parade participant was the Sahab loitering munition (or suicide drone, Figure 3), which is clearly a sister of the Yemeni Houthis’ Samad-1 and -2 drones." washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
Also look back a bit at background via @N_Waters89

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26 Oct
Can one person explain to me what it means when "US State Department says Sudan's normalization efforts with Israel will have to be reevaluated following the coup"....what does it mean? What is being re-evaluated? How can the US decide for Sudan about Israel. I don't get it.
The only thing I understand was involved in the "deal" with Israel normalization was the US removed Sudan from state sponsor of terror list; voanews.com/a/africa_sudan…
The fact Sudan had a coup has nothing to do with sponsoring terror...that list shouldn't be a "we don't like you list"...but a list based on countries that actually sponsor terror. Since Sudan doesn't sponsor terror, what's the US going to re-evaluate.
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Thread: It's worth looking at how media in Arabic use the term "المستوطنين" or "settlers" regarding Israelis and Jews; it's not just used about people in the West Bank, it's used also to describe any religious Jew, used to describe a bus hitting people, and also about West Bank.
I think the evidence shows that this word is used often as a dehumanizing term of incitement and this has parallels also in English sometimes in how the term is used.
I've seen media reports where children were killed in terror attacks in Jerusalem and they were not even from Israel and they were called "settlers"...a child can't "settle" anything. But the term is used to dehumanize.
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Why is it that the US feels the need to appease Turkey on human rights but not other authoritarian regimes? Only with Ankara does it fear to mention human rights. And this nonsense about “non-intervention”…Ankara literally sent security forces to attack peaceful protesters in DC
The US isn’t afraid to critique human rights in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, China, India, Russia, or any country in the world, only with Turkey does it put out special statements about not critiquing human rights inside Turkey via some “convention”….not with other states
There is not one other country in the world the US is as subservient to as Ankara’s regime, Washington is not afraid to critique abuses or issues anywhere else. It’s bizarre. It’s like western democracies empowered an extremist fascist Ankara and are now afraid of it
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25 Oct
🧵 One of the most misleading narratives is the claim that the US or Israel threaten “war” with Iran…not only is it the other way around, but it’s all a scam because Iran can’t afford a real “war”…you really think a regime like that would risk the results of such conflict
Consider for a second a member of the Iranian theocratic abusive regime, would be risk losing all that power in a conflict, he knows the average people despise him, he knows he crushed protests before
The Iran regime CANNOT afford war and does everything possible to avoid it, either through threats and boasting and bluffing or working with China, Turkey and Russia or by moving proxy pawns around Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen to put the “conflict” somewhere else
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25 Oct
She covers her face, but it is the face of extreme privilege, joining ISIS which genocided minorities and then returning to a privileged life in Germany while the ISIS victims live in camps and she get anonymity whereas ISIS slaves got no such protection and got no support
Why can’t the European ISIS members like “Jennifer” have to pay reparations and work to rebuild the homes of minorities that ISIS persecuted. In my view these folk are no different than the other extremists Germany produced in 1930s
germany had converts who joined ISIS and we have to wonder what made the same country not learn from the Holocaust and not educate these people not to join genocidal ISIS
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25 Oct
A few months ago I mocked reports about Ankara-Iraq drone deal as PR for Ankara drone industry repackaged by media. I was accused of critiquing the reports…well where are the drone deals?

🤔 just wondering because I stand by my theory it was PR nonsense passed off as reports
I think a lot of pro-Ankara reports are basically PR spread by Ankara’s regime via friendly outlets that they make it look like a factual report when it’s like messaging
That is why we get so many false reports about the US and Turkey F-16 issues or study groups on F-35s; it’s always just a trial balloon
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