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Middle East bureau chief for @latimes. (RT's & likes not endorsements or agreement; used to mark tweets.) Covers a lot of places. Can play violin. A little.
Beirut
Joined September 2012
So I guess it's official: I'm an @latimes staff foreign correspondent. Too many to thank, like @PmcdonnellLAT @LATlands @kimmurphy & many many others for taking a chance on a two-bit fiddler. Excited for a new chapter at a great paper.
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I've covered so many wars in the Middle East, and the difference in the level of empathy and attention compared to what you see regarding the war in Ukraine really gives one pause.
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How can @60Minutes regurgitate an objectively incorrect statement like this? The pager explosions *did* harm & maim people near the ostensible targets, as my colleagues and I documented.
A former Mossad agent says the spy agency tested the pagers to ensure there was just enough explosive to harm the Hezbollah fighter — but not the person next to him.
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#Taliban fighters enter a hangar in #Kabul Airport and examine #chinook helicopters after #US leaves #Afghanistan.
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Never seen this one before. A hospital says.
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike hit a U.N. school in Gaza sheltering displaced families and killed at least 14 people, a hospital says.
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Third-world migrant here. I'm a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. And a concert violinist. What, if anything, can you do?.
Most third-world migrants can not assimilate into civil societies. Prove me wrong.
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Just to be clear, the casualties from this will be huge. It's a densely populated area, and adjacent buildings were also affected. I've rarely seen this much destruction in a strike.
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Unbelievable. And what's worse, there will be no accountability.
"She was fearless, but she was also human.”. Shireen Abu Akleh’s colleague and close friend @DaliaHatuqa remembers the impact she had on the Arab world, and how she inspired a generation of women to become journalists. Read more:
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We (myself & @yamphoto) visited the area near Abbey gate the day before the explosion happened. It was absolutely full of people, all in a penned area. This was massively cruel. #Kabul, #Afghanistan
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The new cemetery in Eastern #Ukraine's #Severodonetsk, where the hundreds of dead from #Russia's war are buried, grows larger by the day. A silent testament to the meat grinder this conflict has become.
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#Taliban pushed around both myself and @yamphoto for trying to cover a women's protest in #Kabul, and tried to make Marcus delete footage. Said we had no permission to cover this. Changes already happening in #Afghanistan.
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There really is an epidemic of people telling Palestinians what to do who seem to have no historical knowledge of what Palestinians have already done in the name of peace.
“If the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S. sets aside its campaign to delegitimize Israel … it can find reliable allies in the mainstream of American politics to support a future of peace and coexistence,” @arash_tehran writes:
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Reports that two people clinging to the plane fell somewhere over #Kabul. This should be an enduring stain for every American official/analyst/talking head who dares to discuss nation-building in the future.
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A small all-female protest in #Kabul's Dashti-E-Barchi neighborhood. First of several planned for today. #Afghanistan
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It's International Arabic Language Day. So it's worth remembering that for the grand majority of Middle East journalism jobs, Arabic is preferred, but not a requirement.
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Longer clip showing #Israel-i police attacking mourners on the grounds of the French hospital in #Jerusalem as they carry coffin of Shireen Abu Aqleh.
Everyone switch on to Al Jazeera right now. This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen. IOF is attacking mourners carrying Shireen’s body from the hospital right now. They’re using stun grenades and tear gas and charging at them with horses and batons.
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That didn't take long.
Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Guy Ritchie’s action-thriller ‘The Interpreter.’. He will play Sergeant John Kinley who returns to Afganistan to save Ahmed, the local interpreter who saved his life after an ambush, before the local militias reach him and his family first.
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And to also be clear, the grand majority of the casualties will be civilians. This is the Dahieh Doctrine 2.0.
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Is this the day the phrase "like some third world country" gets retired?.
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Funeral for 10 civilians killed in what is believed to have been a #US drone strike targeting #ISIS-K suicide bombers in #Kabul. If confirmed, it serves as a grim indictment of US plans to conduct over-the-horizon targeting in #Afghanistan.
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Oh, I can't wait for this. It won't be Orientalist, facile, or another vehicle where a Westerner gets center stage while the Syrian character plays an extra in their own story. Really, it'll be great.
Olivia Munn is attached to play the lead in 'Aleppo,' a Syrian refugee drama from MiLu Entertainment
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Just discovered these photos on my phone, right after the #Beirut explosion. Have no memory of taking them.
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Please note that we're still unsure if this is the same attack as the drone strike. And as others have mentioned, if the drone used the R9X ninja missile, then it wouldn't have had this effect. This is why I'm being careful. Pentagon needs to clarify.
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No shameless plug here, but I honestly think my Arai helmet may have saved me yesterday during the #Beirutlast @WhyArai @AraiEurope
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Can you imagine a US politician getting away with this if they referred to any other group?.
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"Western independent journalists." A deeply disrespectful, condescending view all too common in the industry.
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@Zabehulah_M33 you need to inform your cadres that harassing journalists is not going to obscure what is happening in #Afghanistan. Plenty of activists and other journos to get the story out.
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It just occurred to me that these people really have no clue how they sound. And then others wonder why Middle East nations aren't lining up to support one side or the other.
It just occurred to me that this is the first major war between civilized nations in my lifetime.
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This is a video of the vehicle we believe was targeted in the US drone strike. Again, please note we still do not know if it's the same one.
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#Kabul airport's east gate, now apparently permanently shuttered before #Afghanistan would-be refugees. A post-apocalyptic scene.
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Oh, I didn't know that Syrians drove cars thar are different. I wonder if those cars are brown? Hmm. .
“We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin, we’re talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives.”. Just when you thought you’ve seen it all in this world. Beyond belief.
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#Hungary-ians helping #MigrantMarch refugees w/ water, fruit. "We must help, bcos this is a shame on us." http://t.co/r0JJrcKZ7D.
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I really have to wonder if the person composing these milquetoast tweets realizes how utterly unhinged they sound with all that's happening.
In Jeddah, I met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Foreign Minister Prince @FaisalbinFarhan to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and efforts to immediately increase aid to Palestinians. I reaffirmed our commitment to lasting peace and security in the region.
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How many mistakes does one have to make before their opinions are discounted?.
David Petraeus on why he believes the U.S. should have remained in Afghanistan, and the five major lessons we can take from the last 20 years of war.
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Spoke to a doctor at one of #Kabul's hospitals who also said quite a few bodies had gunshot wounds. Overwatch would probably provide some info on this. If it were ever released.
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Too many people on the streets tonight in Beirut. I drove around the city. Passed near Dahieh, which looks like a ghost town.
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I. Love. This.
So I was having a bite with a couple of friends by the corniche when this fella wonders in. Apparently, he's been visiting for the past month, looked after by the cafe owner and fishermen. And for a few minutes, the world was beautiful again. #Beirut
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When people who don't speak Arabic seek to tell Arabs what a word means.
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When Washington questions in the future why it has no credibility in the region, they should just watch this.
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Our story from yesterday with the photographic painter that is @yamphoto.
Jet fighters circle the skies of #Kabul as the U.S. withdrawal concludes, and family members attending a mass funeral for the 10 they say were killed in a U.S. drone strike – look up and weep as the roar of the jet engines never ends. #afghanistan.
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He also loved motorcycles. We were supposed to go riding together at some point. I regret it never happened. Rest in Peace.
Issam was the sweetest colleague. He let me take a kitten I was nursing on assignment once, and made it a bed in his helmet. But he always reminded me, whenever I got careless: “Our goal is to cover the news, not become it”. I am so sorry this happened to you my dear Issam. RIP.
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