Indian media claiming Mediaparte has “distanced itself” from the OCCRP report

Curiously the “distancing” statement isn’t on @Mediapart @MediapartEN or its editor @CarineFouteau’s X timeline or indeed on their French (mediapart.fr) or English (mediapart.fr/en/english) websites None of the outlets publishing this “distancing” are hyperlinking the statement if it exists, nor are they providing screenshots.

Curiously @CarineFouteau never objected to the Opposition “instrumentalising” its reports. But worse claims BJP is spreading “fake news”. So my

Quick 🧵 on Syria

1) Government forces are fortifying and consolidating around Damascus and the Latakia-Tartous coast. As you can see both are ringed by mountains

2) The jihadist advance is just too fast and furious to sustain - especially given the lack of unified command
3) the situation as bad as it is, is still better than 2013-15 for the Government as of now

4) two possibilities - government falls after prolonged siege of the coast and Damascus OR government holds and then expands the inkblots as it did in 2016

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP 🧵: Gujarat Police sources telling me @LangaMahesh was paid the following:

• Reliance: ₹18 crores over 3 years

• Torrent: ₹ 10 crores over 4 years

• Adani: ₹ 20 lacs per month over several years

• Essar: use of the private jet on several occasions He + wife stayed in 5 star hotels for a total of 99 days in 2023-24. Not one of these bills was paid by the couple. Instead several 3rd parties footed the stay. This is basically 1/3rd of the year spent in suites at 5 stars.

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP: Police sources say @LangaMahesh will be charged with Hawala and Extortion soon. they say he has named several extremely senior central bureaucrats as aiding him & profiting from his dealings. As of now the Police say that Mahesh was the glue of a cartel of Babus, industrialist and journos all opposed to the Ambanis and Adanis (A&A). This rival group was headed funded and supplied documents by one major industrial rival (MIR) of A&A curiously he was also approaching A&A for favours and remuneration running into crores which the

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP: Gujarat Police sources: @LangaMahesh was peddling sensitive documents on critical infrastructure which never made it to the @the_hindu. Instead they were shared with the media cell chief (MCC) of a major opposition party. WhatsApp convos reveal that Langa was not only sharing these docs but also drafting the statements that the MCC was putting out + what MCC should or should not say at the presser. Police say these docs were also peddled for consideration to corporates & that they have the entire WhatsApp trail. Police also say two

Every communist is a traitor. To betray their country is hard wired into them. Let’s start with Lenin. He considered his own countrymen a bigger threat than Germans. Despite being just 8 months away from victory, Lenin signed the catastrophic Brest-Litovsk treaty giving away huge Chunks of Russia to the Germans. To note Lenin was sent by the kaiser in a sealed train to Russia precisely to undermine the Russian Government. Today’s Ukraine war traces its roots to this exact treaty. Lenin’s successor was Stalin who was worse

The Agarwals have 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 more money than Salman. So worth remembering what happened in the Salman hit & run case. This country is a joke, this country’s entire “law and order” apparatus is a joke. And make no mistake 𝗩𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗱

2002
• salman kills 1 & injures 3 driving his car

2013 (𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿)
• first charges are laid

May 2015
• found guilty, confirms salman did not have a license till 2004, his driver who lied saying he and not salman was driving the car charged with perjury, is given bail hours later - pending appeal

The biggest tragedy was prime witness Ravindra Kumar - a former commando - who was isolated & mentally tortured by his own Mumbai police, then arrested and due to impoverishment died of TB before the case concluded. All this was done by his seniors to force him to retract his statement.

December 2015 (𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿)
• Salman is acquitted - for lack of evidence

July 2016
• MH government files appeal against his acquittal. Supreme Court admits it - but no fast tracking - court said not laikely to even have first hearing for at least 4 years

May 2024
• no news of the appeal

11 years to frame charges
2 years to find guilty
7 months to acquit
8 years and no hearing of appeal against acquittal

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hindustantimes.com/india-news/hit… .Meet Sujata Shroff a pune builder. In 2017 she crashed into a median killing a 3 year old girl, her mother & injuring 3 others badly. She was granted bail within hours & cancellation of bail plea was rejected. Since 2017 no news of the case. indianexpress.com/article/cities…

🧵 Thank you @IsraelinIndia & Amb @NaorGilon for a spectacular dinner with chef Shaul Ben Aderet. Lemme talk you through what I ate. BTW did you know if you’re vegetarian you’ll be totally comfortable in israel? We started with a masterclass on a proper shakshouka. The table was lined with wayyyy too many starters (typical Israeli style stay fit trick - by the time the main arrives, you’ve gotten full on veg)
Israeli salad. Beetroot & Pomegranate salad. An insanely delicious baba ghanoush with tarragon oil, and my favourite - Sabich filling (there’s nothing quite like sabich - fried eggplant, boiled potatoes, tahini, mixed with pickled lemons and an Indian-Iraqi Jewish sauce called AMBA made of mangoes)

🧵 This morning was spent at Kibbutz Be’eri. One of the first to be hit on 7/10. The scale of destruction is unimaginable. Most of the stuff we weren’t allowed to film as families haven’t given permission. This was the house of Vivian Silver. She was a peace activist who used to





Take Gazan children for medical treatment and ran contact and employment programmes. They knew exactly who lived here. That didn’t stop them. They poured kerosene on her and burnt her. We don’t know if she was alive or dead when this happened. You can see her kitchen was

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP:🧵full blown rebellion brewing in AAP. After throwing Sisodia to the wolves, Kejriwal today threw Saurabh & Atishi as well. Party leaders telling me “what kind of a leader does this”. Lawyers tellme Keju’s legal strategy is sound. Since he has never signed a single document this will come down to hearsay. Vijay Nair has already said Keju took all the decisions. Soon Atishi & Saurabh will be implicated by Keju and they will also say Keju took all the decisions. But Keju will say “show me proof - all three colluded & they’re trying

🧵 on the interview: 11 minutes in I’m wondering where Putin is going with the history. All accurate history, but what’s being said about Polonisation is equally applicable to the 2/3rds of Russia to the east. Undermining his own point.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1755734526678925682

.15 mins he acknowledges the Molotov Ribbentrop pact. And the movement west of Poland to what was eastern germany. underplaying Russia’s role. 17 mins the transfer of Russian lands to Ukraine SSR including lands with no connection to it - esp Black Sea. Tucker keeps pushing back.

This is a 🧵 of appreciation for @harshmadhusudan @alok_bhatt & @kaushkrahul who have been whacking casteist butt for the past few days. These casteists incidentally are the same ones who collaborated with invaders for a thousand years to preserve their privileges. This is Also why temples cannot be given back as long as these self-perpetuating casteist parasites abrogate the right to run temples or determine rules in temples they don’t run. Remember these parasites collaborated with those who demolished our Mandirs - for jaziya exemption & gifts.

🧵 Narendra Modi went to Lakshadweep to highlight the massive under-utilised tourist potential. Having snorkelled & dived in Lakshadweep & Maldives, I can honestly tell you Lakshadweep lacks nothing. So why are the opposition making fun of this visit? You see in the 1980s Rajiv Gandhi & family visited Lakshadweep & it suddenly became the go to destination. However except one island - Bangaram admirably & sustainably managed by CGH - no other licenses were granted & the entire area was kept backward and poor with limited connectivity. Today the PM

I’m at Delhi’s new T1. Here’s a constructive criticism 🧵
@JM_Scindia. While quite glam & glitzy, this airport is going to have several teething problems going ahead. The airport doesn’t account for the Indian traveller & his/her rule breaking.
1) the security check is too short and badly planned. The gold standard of this is Doha - where you’re both forced to maintain lines because of the layout, but also you can slowly remove things and place them on the tray for scanning as you move ahead in queue. T1 Delhi ACTIVELY ENCOURAGES rule breaking

DELHI MEDIA GOSSIP 🧵: apparently the latest Washington Post India story is a pay for play (payment in kind). @NetflixIndia is shitting bricks that #Archies will bomb. Problem is the maker wanted this to be her soft jihadi version glorifying the farmer protests as “Youth resistance”. Unfortunately it seems the film maker rehashed a 1990s Archie’s movie “to riverdale and back” which had the exact same storyline. The problem is Netflix’ management bought the remake without realising the political agenda till too much money had been sunk.

🧵 increasingly you’ll see “Palestinians” in the west claiming their entire family of 67-120 people got “wiped out”. This will almost always be bullshit. Here’s your BS meter as to why
• they’ll never give you an exact location - they know anyone will be able to find it on satellite imagery & disprove them
• they’ll never share pictures of the family - because they know exactly how reverse image search works & how facial recognition software works
• “Palestinians” know to not huddle as one huge family in one spot - they are trained to disperse

Reporting/collation for Day 2 ends in the QTd thread. Today’s (India Standard Time) events will be compiled here. 🧵

Hamas torture-killed a Thai worker in Israel. Did Thailand do anything to Palestinians? No, but it didn’t matter to Hamas GRAPHIC WARNING - EXTREMELY DISTRESSING

https://twitter.com/iyervval/status/1711020542986486175

.iDF imagery of concerted bombing in the Shojaiyye neighbourhood of Gaza city. Note the size of the explosions - israel rarely uses such big bombs in order to minimise casualties.

Quoted thread is as much as I could document yesterday. Today’s 🧵 starts here. Israel 🇮🇱 has sent SMSs & published maps. These tell the residents of Beit Hanoun, Maghazi, Absan, Rafah and Shejaiya in Gaza to evacuate “Evacuate your homes immediately. We warned you”

https://twitter.com/iyervval/status/1710699079221833852

Sderot last night as IDF tried to clear our terrorists.

This isn’t just an intel failure in Israel - it’s a monumental system-of-systems collapse. It’s a multi year, compound intel failure, a higher management failure, a defence mechanism failure, a redundancy failure, a response failure, a situation management failure, a logistics failure, a military failure Here are some questions we should be asking
• how were 5000 rockets accumulated without detection
• how were these 5000 rockets deployed & fired in a mere 20 minutes without triggering alarms
• this operation clearly involved hundreds of men - how weak was your humint/sigint/elint to not pick up?

Multi pronged attack on israel happening. First rockets, then actual infiltration with pickup trucks & para gliders.



.You can see these terrorist scum have entered residential neighbourhoods in Sderot. Firing at police knowing Israeli security won’t fire back in a civilian neighbourhood

I’ve been speaking to GoI members who do have security clearance to receive US Intel. They’re quite emphatic that Canada has NOT shared Intel. 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹. The US certainly has the ability, you’d have to ask why it’s not being shared with Indians specifically cleared to receive that Intel. By itself that does not mean there isn’t intel - just that the US doesn’t want to reveal its sources. This begs the question - What was Trudeau thinking? He either doesn’t have intel, or he has intel that he can’t reveal. The