Micah Zenko on Twitter: “New! US military acknowledges DOD contractors are working in Syria.”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/984500120086597634
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Micah Zenko on Twitter: “Total global arms exports by value: $192B -US arms exports: $159B (83% of all sales) -European Union: $15.3B -Russia: $9.4B -China: $2.9B Source: New State Dept WMEAT report, table IVa: ▻https://t.co/mXD8R27eI1”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/948308330728091648Micah Zenko on Twitter: “Last point. US arms exports now make up 7% of all US exports by value. They fuel so many jobs in so many Cong districts, that no politician will consider longer-term consequences of these sales.”
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Micah Zenko on Twitter: “Countries that receive US military training are twice as likely to experience a military-backed coup attempt.”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/885912881807675392[...] Journal of Peace Research - Jesse Dillon Savage, Jonathan D Caverley, 2017
▻http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022343317713557?journalCode=jpra&[...] We argue that training increases the military’s power relative to the regime in a way that other forms of military assistance do not. While other forms of military assistance are somewhat fungible, allowing the regime to shift resources towards coup-proofing, human capital is a resource vested solely in the military. Training thus alters the balance of power between the military and the regime resulting in greater coup propensity. Using data from 189 countries from 1970 to 2009 we show that greater numbers of military officers trained by the US International Military Education and Training (IMET) and Countering Terrorism Fellowship (CTFP) programs increases the probability of a military coup.
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Civilian casualties from airstrikes grow in Iraq and Syria. But few are ever investigated - Los Angeles Times
▻http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fg-iraq-airstrikesU.S. Army Col. Joe Scrocca, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the coalition, conceded its civilian casualty counts are conservative, requiring multiple confirmations, and said the real total probably lies “somewhere in the middle” of the coalition tally and Airwars’.
Military reports usually do not include accounts from the scene, he said, because many are in enemy territory. They don’t often include interviews with victims and other witnesses because they can be difficult to identify and find, he said.
“We don’t have any means of going and searching out people and, honestly, we don’t have the manpower,” he said.
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U.S. reconsiders its responsibility for civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria - LA Times
▻http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-coalition-airstrikes-2017-story.htmlScrocca said the coalition’s two -person team investigating civilian casualties from airstrikes is conservative in its estimates, requiring confirmation from more than one source.
Micah Zenko on Twitter: “Craziest and saddest thing about this revelation is ~10,000 US military and civilians work at the command in al-Udeid. ▻https://t.co/PuXGwaWGHp”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/859143754904743937
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Micah Zenko sur Twitter : “These are so obviously tempting to hack that I assume NYC put these up as honeypots. ▻https://t.co/GEN7QUndac”
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Micah Zenko sur Twitter : “The number of military contractors and what they’re paid. ▻http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-46”
▻https://twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/667778304057942018#bénéficiaires de l’#ordre_établi #Etats-Unis
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Micah Zenko sur Twitter : "Recall, Bush said “Taliban no longer is in existence” in Sep. 2004"
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Micah Zenko sur Twitter : "FBI “Domestic Terrorism” most-wanted list is all left-wing groups and one PR independence: ▻https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/dt"
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U.S. Boosts Aid in Saudi-Led Fight To Defeat Rebel Force in Yemen - WSJ
▻http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-doesnt-currently-plan-on-ground-forces-in-yemen-1427469528The U.S. military is preparing to expand its aid to Saudi Arabia in its air campaign against rebel forces in Yemen by providing more intelligence, bombs and aerial refueling missions for planes carrying out airstrikes there, American officials said Friday.
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Micah Zenko sur Twitter : “Wow. US is providing Saudi Arabia with live video feeds from drones over Yemen for targeting purposes.”
▻https://twitter.com/MicahZenko/status/581833339461607424
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Micah Zenko sur Twitter : "Obama can’t say US is at war with “Islamic extremists,” b/c that would require invading Pakistan and Gulf allies."
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“Our position has been very clear”: Let me re-read some nonspecific generalizations from the briefing book that don’t address your question.
A Translation Guide to Foreign Policy Gibberish - By Micah Zenko | Foreign Policy
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Obama : « Il y a 35 ans, j’aurais pu être Trayvon Martin » | L’affaire Trayvon Martin
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/dossiers/laffaire-trayvon-martin/201307/19/01-4672423-obama-il-y-a-35-ans-jaurais-pu-etre-trayvon-martin.phpToujours aujourd’hui, « il y a très peu d’hommes afro-américains qui n’ont pas vécu l’expérience d’être suivis (par des vigiles) dans un grand magasin où ils faisaient leurs courses. Cela a été mon cas », a-t-il révélé.
If Trayvon Were Pakistani… - By Micah Zenko | Foreign Policy
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/22/if_trayvon_were_pakistani_signature_strikes_profiling?page=fullIt is striking to compare Obama’s deliberate and thoughtful commentary about the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin with the military tactic that will forever characterize his presidency: killing people with drones. The president posits that it is wrong to profile individuals based upon their appearance, associations, or statistical propensity to violence. By extension, he believes that, just because those characteristics may seem threatening to some, the use of lethal force cannot be justified as self-defense unless there are reasonable grounds to fear imminent bodily harm. But that very kind of profiling and a broad interpretation of what constitutes a threat are the foundational principles of U.S. “signature strikes” — the targeted killings of unidentified military-age males.
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US official: Israel did not notify US before Syria raids | JPost | Israel News
▻http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/US-official-Israel-did-not-notify-US-before-Syria-raids-312164The US was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a US intelligence official said on Sunday.
Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the US intelligence official said that the United States was essentially told of the air raids “after the fact” and was notified as the bombs went off.
Selon Micah Zenko, qui donne ce lien ▻http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/30/opinion/oe-zenko30 , c’est probablement le cas.
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Les drones américains ont tué 4.700 personnes, selon un sénateur - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2013/02/21/les-drones-americains-ont-tue-4700-personnes-selon-un-senateur_883395« Parfois on frappe des personnes innocentes, ce que je déteste, mais nous sommes en guerre, et nous avons tué plusieurs hauts responsables d’Al-Qaïda », a-t-il ajouté.
Spécialiste des drones, le chercheur Micah Zenko du Council on Foreign Relations, a dit à l’AFP qu’il s’agissait de « la première fois qu’un responsable américain donn(ait) un nombre total ».
How Many Terrorists Have Been Killed by Drones ?
by Micah Zenko ▻http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2013/02/20/how-many-terrorists-have-been-killed-by-dronesIt is notable that Graham’s estimate nearly matches the TBIJ’s [The Bureau of Investigative Journalism] highest estimated range for “total reported killed” in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia: 4,756. Either Graham is a big fan of TBIJ’s work, or perhaps he inadvertently revealed the U.S. government’s body count for nonbattlefield targeted killings.
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About #Drones - By Micah Zenko | Foreign Policy
►http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/10_things_you_didnt_know_about_drones?page=0,0Over the past decade, there have been some 300 drone strikes outside the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Of these attacks, 95 percent occurred in Pakistan, with the rest in Yemen and Somalia; cumulatively, they have killed more than 2,000 suspected militants and an unknown number of civilians.
