🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
🇸🇾 - A jihadist holed up in the crusader castle and world heritage site Krak des Chevaliers, firing HMGs mounted on a technical towards the Christian towns Anaz/Hwash, claiming they are targeting Shabiha (Assadist militant) positions in May 2013 during the Syrian civil war.
Naturally they'd say they're targeting military positions to save face in international media, but the number of murdered & injured civilians spoke for itself.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had carried out a similar exercise in 2017 in a matter related to circulation of messages through WhatsApp. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. "And that set off kind of a battle royale for control of the platform that Durov eventually lost," said Nathalie Maréchal of the Washington advocacy group Ranking Digital Rights. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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