Sunday, January 26, 2020

Some Tweets from Liz Sly

Liz Sly is THE WASHINGTON POST's Beirut bureau chief and has previously reported for THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE TIMES OF LONDON, THE BEIRUT DAILY STAR . . .




  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    Intercepted radio communications shared w/ show how Soleimani’s Iranian forces and Afghan mercenaries are directing military ops near frontlines in Idlib. “Ya Ali, Oh, Zainab,” the fighters are heard to say, “we will have victory over them” 1/
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  •  2 hours ago
    A big crackdown against protesters in the Iraqi city of Nasseriyah tonight. The protest camp is being burned to the ground. The sobbing that you hear starting about half way through must be the person taking the video. Dreams going up in smoke.


    0:32
    Protesters were inside their tents when armed men attacked them and fired non stop from their pickup trucks prior to torching the tents in Nasriyah’s Habobi Square, this is bizarre and shows the brutal crack down protest…
    11 replies108 retweets90 likes


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     3 hours ago
    Rockets at US Embassy Baghdad typically aim-to-miss. Tonight’s did not. That matters. Reports of injury from strike on the DFAC. Al-Asad’s didn’t miss either. This isn’t something to be at all complacent about.
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  •  2 hours ago
    CNN is quoting a U.S. official as saying one of the rockets hit the dining facility at US embassy Baghdad. Reports of minor damage "at this early stage."
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  •  3 hours ago
    Five rockets hit inside the US embassy compound tonight. It’s quite rare for rockets to land inside the grounds; usually they miss entirely
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  •  13 hours ago
    It seems Boris Johnson just got sent emojis by the Saudi Crown Prince MBS. He was “baffled” by how many. But, you can’t be hacked by an emoji (despite the headline)
    12 replies21 retweets29 likes


  •   Retweeted
     Jan 25
    A Hezbollah commander, Jaafar al-Sadeq Harb, was buried in Harouf, south yesterday after dying in battle. This report doesn't mention where, altho' another says it was somewhere in Idlib, . Hezbollah fighters are still very much deployed.
    6 replies49 retweets78 likes


  •   Retweeted
     Jan 25
    New administration (Govt) more “militarized” - checkpoint along highway from north Lebanon to Beirut; searching cars/buses for gas masks .. appears they are dealing w/political and economic crisis as a security crisis

    Anti riot police no longer using rubber bullets after criticism from human rights groups but they used excessive amounts of tear gas & deployed hundreds of troops to disperse a crowd of few hundred protesters -
    1 reply14 retweets25 likes


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     Jan 25
    This is absolutely extraordinary. Earlier Saturday, security and militia forces came in, burned tents and medical supplies, fired tear gas and shot live bullets. Protestors were killed and yet others came.


    Impressive number of protestors at in support of those remained at the square and in the hope of keeping the protests alive…
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    7 replies158 retweets212 likes


  •  Jan 25
    Cyber experts aren’t convinced that the consultancy hired by Bezos did everything that could have been done to prove conclusively that his phone was hacked by Saudi Crown Prince MBS, or even whether it was hacked at all.
    15 replies28 retweets47 likes


  •   Retweeted
     Jan 25
    "I wear you around my neck, Muqtada. Why did you sell out like this?". A young confused Sadrist at Tahrir Square refusing to leave amid the crackdown. Muqtada created a rift in his own ranks.


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  •  Jan 25
    Security forces in Iraq are moving to crush the protest movement, firing live bullets & tear gas to clear out protest camps. On the 9th anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that launched the Arab Spring
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  •  Jan 24
    Afghans who fled to Iran when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan are now fleeing US sanctioned-Iran to Turkey where they are sleeping on streets & in parks. A sad & unforeseen consequence of “maximum pressure”, by
    2 replies20 retweets22 likes


  •   Retweeted
     Jan 24
    Wow. 's just now on says was furious about being questioned about Ukraine in her interview. Took her into his office, cursed at her, dropping f-bombs, made her point to Ukraine on an unmarked map (she did). It's just...shocking.
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  •  Jan 24
    Competing protest movements in Baghdad. On Friday, a big government-backed protest called by Muqtada al-Sadr marched peacefully to call on US troops to leave. The anti-government protests carry on despite the violence used to stop them. By
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