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May 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#important Our institute has released a significant and legally-reviewed report detailing evidence of how Russia is inciting genocide in Ukraine. Tremendous work in @NewlinesInst - coverage of the report in @nytimes here
.@CNN has an exclusive story on this landmark report.

Leading experts accuse Russia of inciting genocide in Ukraine and intending to 'destroy' Ukrainian people | CNN

cnn.com/2022/05/27/eur…
Russia has incited genocide in Ukraine, independent experts conclude - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/…
Russia is guilty of inciting genocide in Ukraine, expert report concludes | Ukraine | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2022/may…

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Mar 10
Gonna summarize the new release by the Islamic State (ISIS) about the killing of its leader and the appointment of a new leader. The release is by its new leader Abu Omar al-Muhajir.

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The release, titled "Of them were some who passed away," reveals that both the leader Qardash and his spokesman Abu Hamza al-Qurashi (who died on February 3, in a US special forces raid in northern Syria). The group offers different details.
The ISIS release by the new spokesman mentions the two died in the past few days (so this was recorded a month ago, but only now released). He claims the two died standing and fighting.
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Mar 7
Afghan businessman @BarakShoaib, once a symbol of everything the U.S. claimed to support during the war against the Taliban, pens a powerful essay on the U.S. sanctions, their immorality and the profound betrayal they symbolize | New Lines Magazine apple.news/Ax8qjKV4USW2GY…
“Since the day the U.S. froze the reserves of Afghanistan’s Central Bank, I have had almost no access to the more than $3 million in my bank accounts. I probably never will again.” apple.news/Ax8qjKV4USW2GY…
The construction, mining and food companies I own, which used to have annual revenues of over $40 million, are in danger of folding entirely. apple.news/Ax8qjKV4USW2GY…
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Mar 2
In an interview, former Qatari foreign minister on the Gulf states’ alliance with the U.S. versus Russia and China: the US is easier, as long you’re straight with them, not as difficult as others, and Russia/China are “dictatorships like us” via @YouTube
The US told former Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Saleh about their intention to attack Iraq from the sea rather than from the nature continuous land near Kuwait, because they knew Saleh was leaking messages over to Saddam — former Qatari FM
Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was killed and by people close to him, according to former Qatari FM (who says this was a confirmed fact, not just a possibility, and part of the story happened in his own office)
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Oct 7, 2021
One major flaw in jihadism/counterterrorism analysis is to compensate for knowledge of the human terrain by relying on (flawed) stats/numbers or statements on social media. We’ve seen that in Iraq and Syria, and we’re seeing it now in Afghanistan.

To give a quick example:
Not a single Afghan talks about an expanding Islamic State there, for example. This is almost exclusively coming from non-Afghan observers, old or new. But let’s entertain this claim, which really relies on not reporting or in-field woek but on “stats”. Still, let’s see the stats
Two points:

1. ISIS is claiming attacks, and those go into analysts’ databases. A trendline is established. A dude somewhere walking by another dude & shooting toward him, only injuring him, that is counted as an ISIS “operation”.

A more vital point >>>
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Apr 17, 2021
Wow! For the first time, a video showing the ISIS leader defending his PhD thesis at the university of Mosul in 2007. This is the first time he’s seen in live footage, and the discussion in the video is quite astonishing in multiple levels. (H/t @NihadJariri)

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As detailed here, at that point he was part of al-Qaeda in Iraq (Islamic State of Iraq) and was just appointed the general sharii (judge) of the group. He would be jailed by the Americans at Camp Bucca a short while later.
So according to @newlinesmag reporting, he became the group’s top cleric at the same time he defended his PhD at the University of Mosul.

His PhD dedication was brought up in the video here. “Dedicated to those whose nature is to work behind the scenes & in the dark.” Al-Qaeda?
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Dec 21, 2020
Today is the death anniversary of Dr Mohammed Shahrour, a Syrian intellectual known for his controversial views on Islam (radical but on the opposite spectrum of jihadism). He came up with a novel way of approaching the Quran, widely rejected by clerics but fascinating at times.
To me, the most fascinating is that he came up with a method that's almost identical to Islamic radicals but in a way that pushes a liberal view of Islam, different from traditional & extremist views. A "literalist" view with modern applications.
While progressives usually focus on avoiding what they see as odd statements in Islamic texts by going for maqasid (the higher objectives of sharia, specified in hadiths) or majaz (metaphorical explanations), he embraced literalism and found a method to explain things.
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