His mansion alone is already worth millions.

He will be made an example of.

I'll never fistbump Traore

https://xcancel.com/marcus_herve/status/1900686796570476720

Interesting article attempting to understand why Mahmoud Khalil was chosen:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/03/the-curious-case-of-mahmoud-khalil/

The simple truth is that anybody working in good faith in the British Embassy in Lebanon can be no friend of the resistance to Israel. Everything the British Embassy do in Lebanon is intrinsically linked to the overriding goal of promoting the interests of Israel, particularly through weakening Hezbollah, and this is especially true when it comes to programmes into Syria running out of Beirut.

So how did Khalil move from British government operative to Palestinian student activist?

And then, why on earth did the Trump regime pick him for its first high-profile deportation?

I can see three plausible explanations for Khalil’s behaviour:

1. He was never pro-British but was infiltrating the Embassy for the Palestinians

2. He was never pro-Palestinian but was infiltrating the protest movement for the British government

3. He was not very political but was moved recently to activism by the genocide in Gaza

Of these, option 3) seems to me the most plausible, though all are certainly possible.

It would be a delicious irony if the Trump regime had arrested a British agent by accident, but this seems to me unlikely. I do not think MI6 would run a Palestinian agent in the USA without informing the CIA – although they may have done if there were a specific concern that the CIA would leak the identity.

If Khalil were a British agent he could have been arrested for protection if there were concerns he had been “made”, or he could have been arrested because the Americans found out and were furious at not being informed. But I do not think these are the likely scenarios.

It seems to me much more probable that a once-complacent Khalil changed his mind and became more – righteously – radical due to the genocide in Gaza.

In which case the motive for choosing him as the target for arrest is very plain. Both the US and UK will be worried about revelations Khalil might make about support to jihadists in Syria from his time working on this in Lebanon. Whisking him into incommunicado detention, whilst maximum pressure is applied to persuade him to keep silent, is then an obvious move.

It is important for freedom of speech and for the rights in general of immigrants in the USA that Mr Khalil is free. It is obviously profoundly important for him and his family. I do not want anything I have written to detract from that.

But the puzzle of why such an extremely complicated target for the test case was chosen, when there exist far lower-hanging fruit, is one that needs to be considered. I hope I have offered some possible lines of thought you find useful.

I still get a kick out of "should China nuke the US after the US nuked China?"

One cameraman had his skull cracked open by a police tear gas shot, he's in very critical condition.

You could see the man's brains coming out of his forehead.

https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1899747333723587019

CHINA BUILDS HOSPITAL IN BURKINA FASO

China and Burkina Faso are working hand in hand to build a brighter future. At least, that is the case with their collaboration on a teaching hospital on the outskirts of Bobo Dioulasso. The hospital, set to open in 2025, would be West Africa's largest.

Karim Démé, president of the Focal Point of the People's Republic of China in Burkina Faso, initially proposed the project and contacted Chinese authorities to develop the idea. Chinese doctors will train Burkinabé physicians for the first three years, after which the Burkinabé people will run the hospital by 2028.

As of 2020, Burkina Faso had 0.2 hospital beds per 1,000 people compared to the global average of 3.3 beds per 1,000 people.

Damn:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1899569710288556172
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1899841928239214963

The case of #MahmoudKhalil is a perfect example of the limits of Liberalism and collaboration with the Zionist Empire in hopes of gaining some equity or change in the power structures. For those who don't know, Khalil is a Syrian citizen who collaborated with the Imperialist plot against his homeland, and worked for the UK embassy in Lebanon coordinating destabilization programs. He also worked in the NGOs in the USA designed to drive the Syrian diaspora youth astray from decolonization, and into the arms of Wahhabi and Ikhwani collaborationist rule.

As for his role at Columbia University, he was a go-between agreed upon by the Zionist Administration and the Palestine liberation supporters; ie he was not a member of the movement, and only a messenger. He was also against the Hind Hall movement and actions.

So, here is Mahmoud Khalil, a man who sold his country to the wolves for a few measly dollars, who acted as reasonable messenger of Zionist power to the Palestinians at Columbia, and all he got in return was to be disappeared by Zionist Master in the White House.

Moral of the story here, as an Arab or Muslim, no matter how much you suck up to Zionists, they will never treat you as an equal human, and the more you suck up to them, the more they will humiliate you when you outlive your usefulness.

We hope Mr Khalil returns home safely to his family, but you should all know what you are supporting, and to do so in spite of his shortcomings, because his disappearing even though he is a tool, fool or even agent, signals that all Arabs and Muslims in the USA could be treated even worse.

Mahmoud Khalil was the program director of the Syria office at the UK mission in Lebanon, and had full security clearance on all the regime-change operations according to embassy staff; but somehow our post that also tells people to still support his rights, is being painted as conspiracy theory by both Jewish White Supremacist accounts and Wahhabi/Ikhwani/Liberal accounts.

Say what you will about the Taliban, but at least they took up arms in order to expel the US from Afghanistan. And now, they are trying to make Afghanistan sovereign within their own very limited capacity. Meanwhile, SDF just rolled over because they were ordered to do so by their US masters.

Completely shameless.

Are the Assadists in the room with you right now?
https://xcancel.com/eu_eeas/status/1898487797348225207

The European Union strongly condemns the recent attacks, reportedly by pro-Assad elements, on interim government forces in the coastal areas of Syria and all violence against civilians.

I’m not too familiar with European history, but I would guess that the European nation states were too small to allow for such fierce internal division of aristocratic factions.

They were tiny by comparison. The Kingdom of France was considered big by (Western) European standards and it was smaller than Nanzhao. The small size of European polities also meant they didn't need a giant feudal bureaucracy.

If Nigeria somehow rid itself of its compradors and join the AES, the West can pretty much kiss West Africa goodbye, which is why the West's last stand in West Africa will be in Nigeria. You're far more likely to have everyone in ECOWAS except for Nigeria join the AES with Nigeria as the lone member of ECOWAS. An interesting possibility is if there's a civil war between the northern part and southern part with the northern part wanting to join AES. Of course, the last time Nigeria had a civil war resulted in more than 2 million civilians starving to death.

Well that just happened.

Qanon is also a lot funnier.

No fucking way

Please let this be real:
https://xcancel.com/fresh_sadegh/status/1897010936499826692

Far news agency (an IRGC affiliate) reports about the formation of the “Islamic Resistance in Syria”, an umbrella group made up of resistance forces. Their aim is “to confront American-Israeli-Turkish plots to dismantle Syria with the help of the current militia ruling Damascus”

When the usurper Wang Mang overthrew the Western Han dynasty and tried to establish his own dynasty, it proved to be a complete disaster because he tried to restore a Confucian system of governance that never existed. He also tried to have more than 20 types of currency floating around at once. His new dynasty (literal translation of Xin dynasty) was overthrown in less than fifteen years.

Yeah, intergenerational trauma is 100% real, and you could see it just by talking to people. You have people with behavioral problems who can trace it back to grandparents who abuse their parents.

War scars entire generations of people. War scars the land. There are people in Vietnam who are born with birth defects because of Agent Orange and Vietnam has to still disarm UXO.