TOMORROW: Northwestern Medill's “Reporting in a Dangerous World” Symposium!

🗓️ April 27
📍 Northwestern

Listen to CPJ's Lucy Westcott & RSF in English's Clayton Weimars in the panel, Protecting a Free Press: Ever-Growing Risks to Journalists Around the World

RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/the-medill-r…

I gave a presentation this morning, partly about Afghanistan. On the drive home it set me thinking.

My hunch is that part of the reason for Western protests about Gaza is a total failure to understand what urban war is, and what it looks like, and people are horrified to see it.…

This is wonderful. It's privilege to work with Kelly on her husband Kevin Cornwell release from Taliban detention. They are both inspirational and I am proud to know them as friends, dear to my heart.

I'm excited to announce the creation of the Violent Extremism Lab, which I'll be leading at University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC). Check out our research, publications and upcoming events here: cssc.web.ox.ac.uk/the-violent-ex….
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“The Pentagon will withdraw dozens of Special Operations forces from Chad in the next few days, the second major blow in a week to American security and counterterrorism policy in a volatile swath of West and Central Africa, U.S. officials said on Thursday.”…

Israeli journalist Itay Blumenthal has seemingly just leaked that the evacuation of Rafah will begin next week. Attempting to inform a civilian that his post on Twitter breaches Israeli censorship, he accidentally confirms the information was correct.

“They should have predicted Israel’s response & thought of what would happen to the 2.3mn Gazans who have nowhere safe to go.' Oh, they did, Nassim, they knew exactly what they were doing. #Hamas #Terrorists ft.com/content/c529a3…

Iranian Qeshm Fars Air cargo B747 [EP-FAB] made at least six flights from Bandar Abbas to Port Sudan and back to Tehran on 7 and 12 Dec 2023 and 8, 16, 23 and 30 Jan 2024 parts of which were tracked by various flight tracking services (eg flightaware.com/live/flight/EP…)

I had responsibility and oversight for hostage policy and operations at the Pentagon. Our 2014 to 2015 White House Hostage Policy Review created hostage recovery fusion cell that is currently analyzing this video.

There are some key takeaways.

The Taliban’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, defended their policies on women’s rights citing Sharia law in response to a U.S. Department of State report that criticized Afghanistan’s human rights record.

Mujahid stated that as Muslims, Afghans have their rights “ensured based on…

90 Percent Of people Detained by #Taliban in #Afghanistan Are Political Prisoners, Says US State Department | RoW says: Duh afintl.com/en/202404233001

Grindr sold HIV status of “potentially thousands” of users to advertisers, lawsuit says trib.al/bwIl8uv

Ivy League University Installs Jew Detectors At All Entrances buff.ly/3Qlokvu

Sounds like neither Israel nor Hamas know how many hostages are still alive, if any, or where they might be. A huge fail for both sides - for the terrorists & the state interests they represent, & for the state they seek to destroy.

'Tehran & Islamabad reaffirmed their commitment to bolster bilateral relations across various sectors, aiming to elevate trade volume to a staggering $10 billion.' #Sanctions armenpress.am/eng/news/11354…

'Sunflowers Newport' by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt

The West continues to fund the Taliban while they enforce gender apartheid, slaughter those who supported the intervention, persecute, and allowits terrorism to blossom. The UN accords to none of its values and has no courage or integrity. Completely vacant of any ethic or moral.

Just finished visiting Democratic Party former Legislative Council members Albert Ho and Andrew Wan at Stanley Prison. They are healthy and in good spirits
剛在 監獄 探望民主黨 前立法會議員 何俊仁 和 尹兆堅，他們健康，精神

#GunRunners -- Pakistan's Frontier Corps & Customs foil attempt to smuggle illegal weapons from #Afghanistan to #Pakistan radio.gov.pk/22-04-2024/fc-…