Thursday, January 02, 2020

Some Tweets from Rasha al-Aqeedi


  •  Pinned Tweet
     31 Dec 2019
    Please ignore any articles or analyses suggesting "protesters " are behind storming the US Embassy. These are clearly Hashd units. Hashd leaders are out in the open.
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  •  11 minutes ago
    Just notice my spontaneous choice of words: "without him". The twisted, almost intimate mental affiliation we develop with authoritarian/brutal figures is very hard to explain.
    Let's be honest. No "hot take" makes any sense now. None of us who work on Iraq closely ever anticipated a scenario without him.
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  •  18 minutes ago
    A multitude of mixed feelings, but "fear" is the dominant one. God-like figures aren't supposed to die. When they do, it gets very confusing.
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  •  20 minutes ago
    A bit of anecdote: Suleimani has an indispensable aura to him. I don't mean this as a praise, but it was there. None of the bad guys did. The closest to him was perhaps Saddam, and what I'm feeling now is reminiscent of the day Saddam fell.
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  •   Retweeted
     22 minutes ago
    In all seriousness though, it’s best not to get absorbed in the endless hot-takes on this platform. Talk to local voices. Goodnight.
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  •  21 minutes ago
    Let's be honest. No "hot take" makes any sense now. None of us who work on Iraq closely ever anticipated a scenario without him.
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  •   Retweeted
     41 minutes ago
    : Pentagon says Soleimani was killed "in a decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad" at the direction of US President Donald Trump - via
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  •   Retweeted
     1 hour ago
    قتل اليوم.....من هو أبو مهدي المهندس؟
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  •   Retweeted
     47 minutes ago
    The amount of blood on this man’s hands
    Worth recalling, too, that it was Soleimani who went to Moscow and prevailed upon Putin to intervene in Syria in 2015.
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  •  52 minutes ago
    Friday sermon in 6 hours. I doubt the Marjiyia can stray away from politics this week.
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  •   Retweeted
     54 minutes ago
    Maybe before I leave you: If you're a news producer, in addition to all the usual talking heads, see if you can get your hands on some Iraqi or regional voices tonight - it's on their backs that most of this is going to fall.
    Alright. For real now. I imagine the Takes will still be piping hot tomorrow morning. Good night and stay safe.
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  •   Retweeted
     58 minutes ago
    Statement from DOD on the death of IRGC-Quds force leader Qassem Soleimani.
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  •   Retweeted
     57 minutes ago
    Replying to 
    There HAD to be Iraqi help on this--like the Baghdadi raid. No way USG has its own Humint to pull this off.
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  •  1 hour ago
    More alarming for people living in countries where he had influence. Most Americans don't know him or care enough to know him for a variety of reasons.
    Seeing commentary that the killing of is more significant than Bin Laden or Baghdadi. I'm not an alarmist, but I mostly agree with this. is a highly capable nation-state & as such, has far more resources to respond to this attack with kinetic actions of its own.
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  •  1 hour ago
    Did they hide their faces when they burned his posters?
    Replying to @RashaAlAqeedi
    I hope they hide their faces. So worried for them
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  •  1 hour ago
    here we go:
    Contact in Baghdad says there is a lot of anger from Hashid over rumours Iraqi intelligence cooperated with US to carry out tonight’s strikes. Something to keep an eye on.
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  •  2 hours ago
    This is what I meant by flashbacks of April 9th, 2003
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  •  2 hours ago
    This is looking more and more like a reverse military coup ...what that means... security apparatus kicking out the PMF
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  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    Well, live by the gun die by the gun. Though I have more questions than answers.
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  •  2 hours ago
    Can honestly say very few saw this coming. I certainly didn't.
    Iran got too comfortable with the US predictable response. • shot down a US drone. • attacked Saudi oil facilities, unprecedented…
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  •   Retweeted
     3 hours ago
    ⭕️⭕️⭕️ عاجل .. تم التأكيد بشكل رسمي على ان عملية الاغتيال شملت قاسم سليماني "قائد فيلق القدس الايراني" و ابو مهدي المهندس "نائب رئيس هيئة الحشد" في غارة قرب الدولي
     
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  •  3 hours ago
    I'm struggling to see how the US could carry out such a precise attack without help from Iraqi intelligence.
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  •  3 hours ago
    Flashbacks of April 9th, 2003.
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  •  3 hours ago
    Same
    Replying to @RashaAlAqeedi
    Jfc
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  •  3 hours ago
    In the midst of all this chaos, please wish my good friend a happy birthday.
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  •  3 hours ago
    Mishaan Jiboori tweeted this. Guys. GUYS.
    انعي الاخ المجاهد والثائر والصديق العزيز المحب المخلص…
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  •  3 hours ago
    Ok can anyone confirm tonight's operation had one of those fancy names?
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  •  3 hours ago
    This means absolutely nothing btw. I refuse to retweet rumors but yeah there's definitely an unprecedented escalation.
    يا بويه
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  •  3 hours ago
    يا بويه
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  •  4 hours ago
    They've been clearly stating that the goal isn't to weaken Iran, but rather stop it from attacking US interests. "Anti-Benghazi". Have we forgotten how much the Benghazi affair exhausted the media and elections?
    What is the strategy here other than inflaming Iraq while doing little to operationally weaken Iran?
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  •  4 hours ago
    Ok who's in for an all-nighter?
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  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    This is complete nonsense and proves you have zero understanding of the local dynamics in Iraq.
    US policy in Iraq: 2003 lost the Sunnis (invasion & debaathification) 2019 lost the Kurds (Erdogan invading N. Syria) 2019 lost the Shiites (Airstrikes on Hashed Shaabi)…
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  •   Retweeted
     8 hours ago
    The Post's deserves a serious tip of the cap for his work this week in Baghdad. In addition to reporting, his video -- taken at peril to his safety -- has featured prominently on national television and provided a better understanding for the facts on the ground.
    To understand what went down at the US Embassy, listen to ⁦⁩ who was there. Mustafa emphasizes twice that they are not protesters.
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  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    We nearly did something similar back in July 2011 but they got the message. I will never forget June 2011 - we lost sixteen Americans to militia attacks right at the end. At my old firm we lost an Iraqi driver to a KH EFP to the head at Two Mosque roundabout in Zubayr
    I am still digesting 25 KH (incl 4 leaders) killed in a day, with 50+ wounded. It is a lot bigger movement but a lot more vulnerable at the head. We know where a lot of KH commanders live and work now, which was harder pre-2012.
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  •  10 hours ago
    Stories from Iraqi protesters(not the Embassy sackers). Hamad has been fighting Leukemia for years, but the young man set up his tent at Tahrir Square and offers free hair cuts for anyone who needs it.
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  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    images from (2 January 2020) show the (29 December 2019) aftermath in , , approx. 15 km South to , , where the crossing and "Imam Ali" base are located.
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  •  12 hours ago
    Song by
    2:07
    This one in English and Arabic.
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  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    An Iraqi psychiatrist once told me that he estimates 90% of Iraqis have some form of mental health issue, with PTSD and depression the top causes. Exposure to violence is so common that finding unaffected people is hard. All this and mental health provisioning is awful
    Random conversation with a taxi driver in Baghdad. Him: "I smoke two packs a day. I want to quit."…
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