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Caleb Weiss
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Caleb Weiss
@caleb_weiss7
Defections Program Manager - Uganda at Bridgeway Foundation. Editor @LongWarJournal. Focused on jihadism and political violence in Africa. Alum @FletcherSchool.
Joined September 2014
- Dude isn’t in control of like 40-60% of his own countryAll African Countries must take the same Posture Burkina Faso is Taking. Time is ticking- Africa wake up!!! The Hour is Late.
- IS has now released photos of the fighters from its suicide assault in #Puntland - no Somalis involved. The group instead shows most of them were Tanzanians, followed by Saudis and Moroccans, and then men from Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, and Ethiopia.
- That a rebel group is dropping defection leaflets on a state army is legitimately a crazy story. Has this ever happened before?“Your life matters more.” Rebel drones have dropped leaflets over regime controlled areas, urging regime soldiers to flee and defect.
- The amount of suicide bombers that IS Somalia is using as defense against the Puntland offensive is somewhat reminiscent of its earlier showdowns, like Mosul, when that became its main defensive tactic. Just today another 15+ used, bringing the total to ~32 since Dec. 31, 2024.
- This article only serves to provide cover to the UAE and its proxy RSF while they commit more untold atrocities. It’s not “alleged backing” it’s confirmed. Also it’s not a right v left issue, RSF is the more proximate concern in Sudan because it’s literally committing genocide.As they denounce the UAE’s alleged backing of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, far-left lawmakers have passed over the Muslim Brotherhood affiliations and foreign backing of the rival Sudanese Armed Forces. More from @matthewashea_: ji.news/4cfig
- Replying to @Atemesgen10That he’s perhaps not the best role model for other African heads of state?
- 1. The new UN report on the global activities of IS and AQ is out, so here is a big thread on what stood out the most to me. First, we have "growing confidence" that Mumin is indeed Abu Hafs, IS' Caliph. Though some member states continue to disagree.
- My periodic reminder (because this won't likely be in the doc) that al-Qaeda was very intimately involved in this battle, with key operatives such as Sayf al-Adl, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, Abu al-Hassan al-Sa’idi, and Yusuf al-Ayeri (among others), taking part.The real story that inspired Ridley Scott’s 'Black Hawk Down,' as told by those who survived. Surviving Black Hawk Down premieres February 10.
00:00 - There was a time in 2016 when a CIA-backed faction fought with a DoD-backed faction in northern SyriaTwo rebel factions, one supported by the United States and the other by Turkey, are firing at one another and launching artillery. We have a hot proxy battle ongoing between two NATO members. What a time to be alive.
- This is absolutely absurd and terrible piece that completely mischaracterizes Lindh and essentially paints him as the victim. He was part of al Qaeda.The fact that John Walker Lindh enlisted as a simple foot soldier in a strictly regional conflict, almost a year before the Taliban was recast by the Bush administration as our supreme enemy, availed him next to nothing nyti.ms/2VW3TvP
- Okay two things: 1: If US policy in Syria was truly 'regime change,' then US efforts in that country would look entirely different. 2. Literally every single frame you used here is showing the death and destruction your pal Bashar has caused on his own people. You're trash.
