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Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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what’s the Ogaden up to? with all this unrest I was assuming at some point the Somalis would start making noise but the media blackout there seems as blacked out as ever.

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Zedhe Khoja posted:

what’s the Somali Region up to? with all this unrest I was assuming at some point the Somalis would start making noise but the media blackout there seems as blacked out as ever.

some minor clashes with the afar region. most of the major political parties are boycotting the next election. So the usual

the Somali region is 99% Somali, and you won’t get arrested for waving the Somali flag anymore. Probably the most stable area outside of the capital.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1391864658156478469?s=20

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


why tf is a coast guard ship in hormuz? if we have a ship there shouldn't it be the navy?

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1392163886934200322?s=20

Does this go in this thread or the Palestine thread

mcclay
Jul 8, 2013

Oh dear oh gosh oh darn
Soiled Meat

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

why tf is a coast guard ship in hormuz? if we have a ship there shouldn't it be the navy?

as the world's policeman all coast's are america's coasts

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Atrocious Joe posted:

Does this go in this thread or the Palestine thread

yes

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/Viatcheslavsos3/status/1387151453207384065

why do we have coast guard ships in the persian gulf i was kind of under the impression that the difference between the coast guard and the navy was that the coast guard like guards our coast

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

The government of Ethiopia finally crossed the line, personally annoying the New York Times
https://twitter.com/MarksSimon/status/1393171127195815936?s=20

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

look i know you have a lot one your plate trying to genocide three groups at once but please be nice to our rich white journalists

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Atrocious Joe posted:

The government of Ethiopia finally crossed the line, personally annoying the New York Times
https://twitter.com/MarksSimon/status/1393171127195815936?s=20

to be fair, it was a mistake in the first place to give someone from the New York Times accreditation as a journalist

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/thisisinsider/status/1393998986948849671

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

look i know you have a lot one your plate trying to genocide three groups at once but please be nice to our rich white journalists

to be fair to abiy, he’s only genociding one group, the rest are genociding each other.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/15/politics/us-condemns-tigray-atrocities-cnn-investigation/index.html

US condemns 'atrocities' in Tigray and calls for those responsible to be 'held to account' after CNN investigation

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

also a bunch of generals and ultra-nationalists/ Amhara monarchists were arrested for plotting a coup via a Zoom call.

PawParole has issued a correction as of 00:43 on May 18, 2021

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

How else would you plot a coup during a pandemic?

Issaries
Sep 15, 2008

"Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"
Was the coup going to be carried out via zoom too?

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://mobile.twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1396026010714492928

https://mobile.twitter.com/addisstandard/status/1396008658199355393


adhuin posted:

Was the coup going to be carried out via zoom too?


What?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/Karam__Shaar/status/1396508560326987780

yikes good thing we elected humanitarian democrats so theyll get rid of sanctions and we can get food to the people in syria right

right?

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/DrMehari/status...ghtmode%3Dfalse

America is sanctioning Ethiopia

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/samirasawlani/status/1396919609782116359?s=20

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Happy Africa Day everybody!

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1397345504644767752?s=19

The first of many such moves I think.

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

The hotter, the wetter, the better
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1398022542389039104

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/amymaxmen/status/1397792178735239168

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://www.reuters.com/world/afric..._source=twitter

U.S. warns of further action against Ethiopia, Eritrea over Tigray - Godec said that while the ethnic conflict in Tigray is the worst in Ethiopia, it is only one, citing attacks on ethnic Amharans, Gumuz and Oromo, as well as other violence.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

hell yeah

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/DavidOlusoga/status/1398214581303062534?s=19

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
Things are going super great for Saudi Arabia's war on the houthis in it's sixth year:-

https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1398669279306960899?s=20

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Sucks to suck

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Al-Saqr posted:

Things are going super great for Saudi Arabia's war on the houthis in it's sixth year:-

https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1398669279306960899?s=20

mods fleeing before superior posting power,

mcclay
Jul 8, 2013

Oh dear oh gosh oh darn
Soiled Meat
How the hell can the Saudis afford to keep loving the Yemen chicken? Surely they must be draining their coffers and domestic manpower reserves by now, considering how lovely the war has been going. Even mercs can't sustain you for that long

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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They rarely use their own manpower and there's an unlimited pool of citizens from nations no one cares about to kidnap and pressgang.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/ExileGrimm/status/1398868810065719303

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

mcclay posted:

How the hell can the Saudis afford to keep loving the Yemen chicken? Surely they must be draining their coffers and domestic manpower reserves by now, considering how lovely the war has been going. Even mercs can't sustain you for that long

the money is draining yes but there’s still plenty of Sudanese child soldiers to exploit

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...



A more enlightened people

I mean. Aside from the whole homophobia poo poo. Win some lose some I guess

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/investigations/michael-rubin-signaled-sedat-peker-plot-against-turkey-in-2016 posted:


An article dating back to 2016 that was penned by former Pentagon adviser Michael Rubin, a man who knew of an imminent Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) coup plot five years ago, is back in the spotlight. Rubin is an American neocon scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a fierce advocate of the terrorist group, and he apparently signaled the current plot by mob boss Sedat Peker back in October 2016. Peker, believed to be in Dubai now after fleeing Turkey where he is wanted on charges of running an organized crime gang, made headlines for a series of videos he posted in which he fired up allegations against politicians, particularly Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu. Authorities have slammed Peker’s claims as slander and defamation as the mob boss has failed to produce any evidence for his allegations.

Rubin’s article confirms Turkish officials’ concerns that Peker’s defamation campaign might be the work of anti-Turkey circles, including FETÖ, which seeks to destabilize the country. The article mentions a new “coup on the horizon” against the government, this time courtesy of Peker whom Rubin describes as Turkey’s “most powerful mafioso.” He says that the question remains whether the Turkish mafia and “deep state” would tolerate competition with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and asks, “If there is a showdown, will it be violent?” He portrays Peker as a “deep state” figure and points out that he had connections to some politicians “to place a figurehead in the presidential palace” if Erdoğan is “assassinated.” The article bluntly concludes that Erdoğan is “a dead man walking.”

Turkish media outlets say that Rubin’s article was actually the first sign of a plot to topple Erdoğan hatched five years ago but shelved after Democrats in the United States, endorsed by FETÖ whose leader lives in Pennsylvania, lost the presidential election. The Peker plot resurfaced again after U.S. President Joe Biden took office, Turkish media says. In a video that surfaced last year, Biden, then a candidate, said he would seek a regime change in Turkey and expressed his willingness to work with "opposition leadership" in the country to topple Erdoğan in Turkey's 2023 elections. “We can support those elements of the Turkish leadership that still exist and get more from them and embolden them to be able to take on and defeat Erdoğan. Not by a coup, not by a coup, but by the electoral process,” he said. An article on the A Haber website says that a plot is afoot through Peker, who resides in United Arab Emirates which they describe as a “financier of 2016 coup attempt.”

The Turkish news report also mentions that the mob boss’s allegations are similar to those by FETÖ-linked police chiefs and prosecutors against the government during the terrorist group’s 2013 coup attempt.

Peker himself had denied Rubin’s allegations in one of his notorious videos while Rubin responded to him by saying “stop whining.”

Erdoğan last month voiced his support for Soylu in the face of Peker’s allegations. “We stood with our interior minister in his struggle against terrorist groups and criminal gangs. Our nation is aware of everyone who supports terrorist groups, criminal gangs and enemies of Turkey,” Erdoğan said in an address to the members of the ruling Justice and Development (AK Party). Erdoğan stated that the “true intention” of the videos was obvious as they also targeted the son of “our friend,” former Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, pointing to a plot against top officials as Turkey stepped up its fight against organized crime and terrorism.

Michael Rubin is known for his staunch stance against President Erdoğan and in 2019, he suggested that Erdoğan would "end up being exiled, imprisoned or executed," in an article for the Washington Examiner. He also drew the ire of the Turkish public for his open support of FETÖ, and a number of Turkish lawyers filed a lawsuit against Rubin over the matter.

He had suggested that a coup was imminent in Turkey four months before FETÖ's attempt, though he later argued that it was "engineered" by Erdoğan, a view shared by the terrorist group's supporters seeking asylum abroad with their false narrative of being victims of a "purge." Although he was anti-FETÖ when the group posed as a religious charity movement in the past, he became an advocate for them on social media, while a former FETÖ member claimed that Rubin personally visited the group's leader Fetullah Gülen in the latter's retreat in Pennsylvania in 2015. Rubin is also in close contact with Ahmet Sait Yayla, a fugitive former police chief linked to the terrorist group.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

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Turkish media is loving wild, but I have no doubt that pretty much most of what each party is accusing the others of is at least partially true.
It's just Nosferatu and Dracula hissing at each other and calling the other a parasite.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://mobile.twitter.com/MapEthiopia/status/1399450641576206357

death toll for the last month has been 5000 souls and 250,000 displaced, excluding the Tigray region.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/death-toll-mid-april-ethnic-clashes-ethiopia-may-be-200-says-official-2021-04-25/

20 percent of the housing stock of the district of Ateye has been burnt down.

PawParole has issued a correction as of 08:07 on Jun 2, 2021

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OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/2/large-iranian-navy-ship-sinks-after-catching-fire

The IRIS Kharg has sunk in the Persian Gulf after burning for 20 hours. Iran reports all of its 400 crew were rescued.

It was the largest ship in the Iranian Navy and served as a training vessel, supply ship, and launch vessel for helicopters.

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