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Nov 1

A leaked WikiLeaks cable from 2007 reveals some of UAE Mohammed bin Zayed’s views on free elections, Islam, Quran schools…. Pakistan…

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This thread is From a WikiLeaks cable dated January 24, 2007,

documenting a meeting between Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ), then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and now President of the UAE, and R. Nicholas Burns, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the time.

2, MBZ views on free elections: “Middle East is not California”

"MBZ: if we want to make peace." In "The Middle East," he insisted, "is not
California." In the post 9/11 world "in any Muslim country you will
see the same result." While members of the U.S. Congress and Senate
are loyal to their states and their constituencies, the masses in the
Middle East would tend to go with their hearts and vote overwhelmingly for the Muslim Brotherhood and the jihadists
represented by Hamas and Hizballah”

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Oct 30

Evidence of the UAE funding and support of RSF militia in sudan.

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On October 2024,

The Sudanese army published Emirati military ammunition and medical supplies found in the possession of the RSF Militia group after the were forced to withdraw.

proving the UAE’s direct involvement in arming the Rapid Support Militia.

It seems that the Emirati officers gave the militia instructions to erase the information proving the UAE’s involvement, but they did not complete the task.

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Shooting Down the Wrong Airplane!

On October 21, 2024, at approximately 04:00 AM, the UAE-backed RSF militia shot down a cargo airplane in the Malha area of North Darfur, claiming it was an Antonov bomber belonging to the Sudanese army.

However, evidence from the wreckage indicates that the aircraft was actually transporting goods for an airlift sponsored by the UAE itself, in support of the RSF.

Militiamen on the ground filmed the wreckage, seemingly unaware that they had just destroyed one of their own supply planes.!!!

Ali Rizkallah “Savannah,” a prominent RSF commander in North Darfur, appeared in one of the videos, boasting that they had used “guided missiles” to bring down the “Antonov.”

In reality, the wreckage was of an Ilyushin-76, and one of the crew members carried a badge identifying him as the chief engineer for Airline Transport Incorporation FZC, a company based in the UAE

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Oct 27

This is a horrific thread.

Documenting some of the horrific crimes committed by the UAE 🇦🇪 backed RSF militia in El-Fasher, northwest Sudan.

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The UAE-backed RSF militia has besieged El-Fasher since May 2024, with many deaths from famine reported.

The militia has prevented any food from entering the city.

#VIDEO A member of the UAE-backed RSF militia published footage showing four civilians who were executed after being questioned for attempting to smuggle food into the besieged city.

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After 18 months of siege, the UAE-backed RSF militia entered El-Fasher today.

And committed horrific crimes.

#VIDEO A member of the UAE-backed RSF militia published footage showing the UAE backed militia executing unarmed civilians in El fasher.

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Oct 20

20 reasons why Hamas should give up arms and become disarmed like the West Bank.

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So, armed settlers can break grandmothers heads in Gaza anytime they want.

#Video: a settler struck a Palestinian grandmother with a bat while she was harvesting her olives north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. TODAY

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So Israeli soldiers can assault children in Gaza anytime they like.

#VIDEO Today, Israeli soldiers assaulted two Palestinian children and dragged them violently south of Al-Khalil in the West Bank.

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Oct 17

Everything you need to know about the recent events between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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What is the Durand Line?!

After the UK failed to occupy Afghanistan in its colonial campaigns, in 1893 an agreement was signed between Sir Mortimer Durand, a British colonial diplomat representing British India, and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, the ruler of Afghanistan at the time, to end the British offensive wars and Afghan defensive wars between the UK and Afghanistan.

The treaty drew a 2,640-kilometer (1,640-mile) buffer zone from Afghanistan, separating it from British India. This buffer zone later became known as the Durand Line.

Analysts and historians say that the UK aimed through this treaty to establish a buffer zone between Afghanistan and British India (which today would be India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan).

Even after failing to occupy Afghanistan, it remained useful and served the British colonial establishment as a buffer country between the expansionist Russian Empire and the British Indian colonies.

This line cut through Pashtun tribal territories, dividing ethnic Pashtuns between the two sides, what is now eastern and southern Afghanistan, and northwestern Pakistan (the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).

-Afghanistan has never formally recognized the Durand Line as an international border.

-Pakistani Pashtuns view it as an artificial colonial division of their homeland.

From 1893 to 2002, this annexed tribal Pashtun area was semi-autonomous. The British appointed leaders from the tribes to oversee the administration and paid them from British funds so that they wouldn’t fight British India, even though there were no permanent British soldiers present.

When Pakistan was created, this buffer zone was given to the newly established state; however, the semi-autonomous status remained.

Pakistani authorities called this area the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with no permanent presence of Pakistani forces or police in the area.

However in 2002

Exactly one year after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the Pakistani authorities changed the region’s status from semi-autonomous to militarized, sending permanent Pakistani forces into the tribal area and ending the British colonial law that had governed it since 1901 under the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR).

This move was directly linked to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, aimed at preventing Pashtuns from aiding their people across the line or joining the fight against the American occupation.

The plan largely failed, as the former British colonial buffer zone is vast and mountainous, making it difficult to control or monitor.

This move by Pakistani authorities was met with violent rejection from the Pakistani Pashtuns. Numerous groups emerged to fight the new presence of Pakistani armed forces.

In 2007, some of these groups united and formed one organization, calling themselves the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

They went on to carry out bloody attacks against Pakistani police and armed forces.

Moving on to August 15, 2021. (next post)

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August 15, 2021

After the U.S. withdrawal, driven by its inability to sustain the losses from continuous Taliban ambushes and attacks, and after establishing a regime in Kabul with billions spent on its army and equipment, the United States left these resources behind for that army in a last attempt, if this regime stood against the Taliban, it would safeguard American interests at a lower cost than direct occupation, similar to the Arab proxy regimes today.

However, the Taliban took over the entire country and entered the American-backed Kabul regime’s palace on August 15, 2021. (Video)

All the resources the U.S. had left for the Kabul regime’s army became the assets of the newly established Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s army.

No one expected that, and it shook the foundations of regimes in Muslim-majority countries before the Western ones.

The Taliban inherited a state dependent on foreign aid, developmental assistance covered about 75% of the previous government’s budget. Foreign aid distorted the economy and fueled corruption.

American negotiators asked the Taliban to comply with banking standards such as anti–terror financing and anti–money laundering guarantees.

The Taliban agreed and welcomed auditors appointed by Washington to Kabul. However, the United States also wanted the Taliban to remove those it had appointed to lead the central bank.

The Taliban grew suspicious of taking advice from its former occupier, and the negotiations collapsed.

Afghan financial officials keep the state budget secret, sharing information with ministries only as needed.

The Taliban view transparency as accountability before Afghan citizens and companies, not before foreign governments.

Taliban officials often say there is no need to explain their financial affairs to the very countries that fought them until 2021, especially since those countries maintain sanctions and unilaterally cut aid.

They also point out that neighboring countries are not transparent about their government budgets either.

Tensions between the two sides escalated in September 2022, when the Biden administration unilaterally decided to transfer half of Afghanistan’s $7 billion in state reserves held in the United States to a fund in Switzerland.

The Afghan government has repeatedly demanded the unfreezing of billions of dollars in Afghan central bank assets frozen abroad, the restoration of international banking ties, and the resumption of stalled infrastructure projects, or at least the settlement of accounts with Afghan contractors who were never paid for work halted after the U.S. withdrawal.

Within weeks of taking office, Trump decided to halt aid to Afghanistan entirely, and soon after, many of America’s allies reduced their aid budgets as well.

Trump then demanded the return of U.S. weapons left behind for the client regime’s army, which collapsed within months against the Taliban in 2021, and he also called for the Bagram base and issued threats.

Added to all that, Pakistan closed land borders with Afghanistan, further strangling the Afghan economy, which depends heavily on agricultural exports.

Iran Pakistan also expelled Afghan workers, who had been a major source of foreign currency for Afghanistan amid severe sanctions.

As of now, Russia is the only country that has officially recognized the Taliban government of Afghanistan.

Moving forward to October 9, 2025 (read the next post)

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Sep 21

Here’s proof that Israel is using ISIS-like remotely controlled vehicle bombs against civilians in Gaza.

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This is footage of Israeli army remotely controlled vehicle suicide bomber in Jabalia neighborhood, northern Gaza.

Filmed on May 20, 2024: the first time these ISIS-style remotely controlled bomb vehicles were observed in Gaza.

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Tracking Gencoide published two photos showing the Israeli army emptying two 1-ton plastic water tanks, which they then filled explosives, loaded into a reengineered old APC converted to remote control, and sent to neighborhoods in Gaza City, where they were detonated remotely.

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