Fantastic analysis on the Dusit attack from Ilya Gridneff #kenya #somalia

BREAKING: U.S. military says new airstrike at Gandarshe Mogadishu killed 13 Al-Shabaab militants, Friday. Gandarshe, south of Mogadishu is used by Al-Shabaab as a staging area for attacks, per U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). This is strike #10 by the U.S. this year against Al-Shabaab.

Inside Al-Shabaab: The secret history of Al-Qaeda's most powerful ally. (If you are in Nairobi check with BookStop at Yaya Center and ⁦PrestiGe Books⁩. More shipment to Mogadishu likely) amazon.com/Inside-Al-Shab…

We have to learn to read pics : Al Shabaab insidiously published pics of military gears khat, cigarettes that were not seized in the same place to tarnish the image of SNA #Al_Shabaab_propaganda

Al-Shabaab Degraded by U.S., Federal Government of Somalia go.usa.gov/xEQQQ

Bad actors use bots, trolls, and deepfakes to spread disinformation and distort and disrupt elections. Atlantic Council and U.S. Missions and Embassies are gathering our partners and allies in 🇪🇺 to secure democracy ahead of this year's elections. RT for #DisinfoWeek updates!

Clicking on terrorist propaganda even once could mean 15 years in prison under new law ind.pn/2tmuZvt The UK really has lost the plot.

Mogadishu Airport Security: At the HQs of a local travel agency, police dog sniffs bags of passengers looking for explosives and other illicit items before the travellers and their luggages are taken to the airport for additional security screening. #Somalia

British foreign office expressing real frustration with #Somalia government’s antics re oil, regional elections and expulsion of UN special representative. Said this at a SOAS University of London Somali diaspora conference.

Are you being harassed online? This is what you should do, and where you should report. buff.ly/2TRmHXN

The expansion of #ISIS in #Somalia despite recent Al Shabaab’s offensive in Puntland, contradicts those who say that for a time ISIS Caliphat in #Syria is no longer a danger and no longer able to commit attack in other countries.

‘2 American Wives of ISIS Militants Want to Return Home’ featuring our research and deputy ⁦Seamus Hughes⁩ nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/…

“Disinformation goes far beyond just fake news or undermining our belief in the news, it actually impacts elections”. متجر سوني5بلايستيشنSONY5 Kathimerini English Edition #DisinfoWeek

Audio version of Inside Terrorism (3rd edition) is now live. play.google.com/store/audioboo…

In a nutshell from Hussein Sheikh-Ali , U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) air strikes overall a success but #alshabaab has simply shifted their main targets&tactics from military ones (AU/SNA/ally forces) to civilian ones such as hotels. Meaning more civilian casualties. #Somalia #mogadishu

“We are now living in the economy of attention”. Alex. Alaphilippe (I have left this website) explains that bad actors not only create disinformation achieve their own objectives but also create it to satisfy the demand for it online and on social media. #DisinfoWeek

New Intercepted Podcast features an in-depth interview with Harun Maruf on Trump’s escalating drone war and the history of how the Bush admin destroyed Somalia’s best shot at peace, giving rise to al Shabab. interc.pt/2H1SWAP

At a Saudi derad center outside Riyadh in 2008 Peter Bergen, myself and number of Western journalists and intel people met Saudis who were picked up in/near battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq and were being rehabilitated. They were all “cooks” too.

We're currently attempting to gather more open source footage and images of the events last night to gain a clearer understanding of what unfolded. If you come across anything you think might be relevant, please reply to this tweet. x.com/N_Waters89/sta…

Very distraught to learn Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been in solitary confinement for a year and faces 10-year sentence. I served on Kylie’s dissertation committee. She’s a wonderful person and a serious scholar, not a spy. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…