Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc
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Visual Investigations at @nytimes. Previously with @Bellingcat, @Airwars. DMs open.
Joined June 2009
The bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh came from the approx. position of an Israel military vehicle — most likely fired by a soldier from an elite unit. It was one of 16 bullets fired into the direction of 5 clearly marked journalists. Our investigation:
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A New York Times investigation found that the bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist was fired from the approximate position of an Israeli military vehicle.
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Wild story about last year’s shipments from Russia’s intelligence service to Europe containing massage pillows and explosives. Three of four shipments caught fire in logistics company warehouses and at airports in Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom. https://t.co/5P9SwDzWmK
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RT @olliecarroll: New. Reports Zelensky’s contentious ex chief of staff Yermak might be about to flee Ukraine - using an assumed identity.…
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По словам источников, глава СВР считается «стопроцентным человеком Ермака».
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Excellent review by @AKMcKeever of the fantastic book on Hayat Tahrir a-Sham, the new rulers of Syria, by Patrick Haenni & @jeromedrev based on years of fieldwork in Idlib https://t.co/SdkRUyFOYQ I highly recommend reading the book to anyone interested in Syria
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NEW: The Pentagon is deploying to the Middle East a new kamikaze drone copied from a widely used Iranian version, turning to a crude but effective weapon. Also my first-ever byline with @MarcusReports!
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An American defense company, SpektreWorks, has produced a cheap drone that is similar to Iran’s Shahed device.
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Life in Bamako, the capital of Mali, has been brought to a standstill after a jihadist organisation launched a series of attacks on inbound fuel convoys. Bellingcat has verified six attacks since September, which together have damaged more than 130 fuel tankers.
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Attacks by a jihadist group on fuel convoys bound for Bamako, the capital of Mali, have destroyed more than 130 tankers since September, a Bellingcat investigation has found. The systematic attacks...
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Can't make this up: A raccoon got drunk at a Virginia ABC store in Ashland and then passed out in the bathroom https://t.co/tYe0aN3gGj
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On this day, according to autopsy reports, my friend Mazen al-Hamadeh was killed by the Syrian regime in Sednaya Prison, alongside other prisoners held with him. Mazen survived years of incarceration by the Assad regime, and endure the most horrific forms of torture. The regime
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#Syria: even more than in #Aleppo, the Rebels' most effective strategic move during the offensive was the pincer attack on #Hama. Regime had expected a frontal assault - similar to what Rebels repeatedly attempted (and failed) until 2017 with a direct attack on Qomhana and Zin
#Syrie après la manœuvre de contournement autour de Hama et de la colline Zeïn elAbidin, visible au second plan, on constate la quantité de chars, de transports de troupes et de véhicules abandonnés par l’armée d’Assad. En frontal HTS aurait pu échouer à percer le front constitué
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@trbrtc @josephvlee A couple of great talks on tracking planes and ships, one of which talked about this story from September that I’d missed.
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An Australian pilot who died when his plane crashed in Brazil during a failed drug run has links to an alleged Kinahan cartel associate who is facing drugs charges in Western Australia.
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The Indigenous Journalists Association released a reporting guide to help reporters cover Indigenous identity responsibly and ethically. It offers tools and context for navigating heritage, identity fraud, community verification, and more. https://t.co/m3qmM6BAfa
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al-Sharaa’s gov’t doesn’t have the cash flow from captagon like Assad’s gov’t did. Getting all sanctions dropped as fast as possible is essential for his political future & that of post-war Syria. Considering his past tho many were not so sure how this would go.
Ahmad al-Sharaa has been on a world tour to rid Syria of all sanctions imposed on the country during the Civil War. In some ways, his government is feeling the pain of these sanctions more than Assad's, who it was originally meant to punish. @RNatourious explains what life in
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An investigation by @nytimes found that the leading bank of the United States — @jpmorgan — spent years supporting, and profiting from, Epstein, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.
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A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.
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It's precisely the dynamic Mearsheimer and Walt warned about in their paper. That same week, Epstein was also strategizing with Dershowitz on discrediting a teenage accuser in his own criminal case. Great work by @MazMHussain and @ryangrim.
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Epstein emails reveal he secretly helped Alan Dershowitz coordinate and circulate smears portraying Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby” paper as antisemitic — using his influence and network to undermine them behind the scenes. https://t.co/jLxAukSL7P
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein assisted a campaign attacking John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt over their 2006 work “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.” Epstein, who was a powerful figure at Harvard via his donations and trusteeship of the Wexner Family Foundation, reviewed multiple
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Op veler verzoek: een aflevering van Schaduwoorlog over de beruchte Mossad. Wat doet het Mossad-bureau in Den Haag? Waarom kwamen er rond 2010 meer mensen werken? En wat maakt dat AIVD’ers op hun hoede zijn als ze met de Israëlische dienst samenwerken? https://t.co/EhDgMWOf8S
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Barak's senior aide lived at Epstein's apartment while he was still Minister of Defense in early 2013. He also met with Epstein at a hotel in 2012 while negotiating a formal security agreement with Cote d'Ivoire that Epstein was also assisting with. A lot of this information is
I went through all the Epstein-Barak emails. There is only 1 from the period in which Barak held a government position - Defense Minister, which is only responsible for military intel, not Mossad - and it's a Thomas Friedman NY Times column about Mitt Romney's 2012 Israel trip.
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How research helped me survive solitary confinement for 903 days https://t.co/MvZUdit1Kh My interview w/ @pawprinceton, which was immensly helpful for my family's struggle to release me
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Essential & timely reporting from #Syria: Homs, once the capital of Syria’s revolution, has become a violent landscape of sectarian killings, property seizures & impunity, part of an emerging political economy of predation & revenge. By Kamal Shahin:
newlinesmag.com
A political economy built on predation and vendettas is taking root in post-Assad Syria
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The Cook Islands flagged over a hundred oil tankers linked to shadow fleets trafficking sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. A Big Read from me about the curious case of Maritime Cook Islands using big data analysis and fieldwork in Raro.
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