13 June, weekly Arab News update, Barry Webb

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Barry Webb here it is news Tuesday again

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yes it is Thursday technically but it’s

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supposed to be Tuesday so we’ll call it

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news Tuesday today what have you got for

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us I wanted to start with the Soudan

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thing because I wanted to clarify

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something about the what’s going on with

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the hooter and the gem show weed militia

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the Janjaweed militias started actually

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in West the west part of Sudan and the

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situation there was you had these this

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black African tribe in Darfur that was

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after culturalist and the JED the there

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were several other tribes that Arabic

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speaking tribes that were semi-nomadic

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herders and they formed together into

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one militia called the gentle weed and

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they begin to pick fights with the black

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African agriculture list and the car to

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new government headed by al Bashir at

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the time gave them weapons and

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encouraged them to commit genocide

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against the black Africans interval even

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though the Africans were Muslims but the

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janji weed were Muslim right yeah

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they’re both Muslims and their Arab

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leader Arab Muslim right yes against the

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black apperance it was like a racial

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genocide thing and that’s why he was

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condemned al Bashir was condemned by the

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UN and you know the Western powers what

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not now then after all of us after he

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was you know put under pressure by the

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yenta-mouth forces he embraced the

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ginger we brought them into you know

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into his system as a why call him the

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rapid support forces so it was like a

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separate army kind of like the IRGC or

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the Hitler’s SS

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or the citizen army that Obama wanted to

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make which would be just as big and

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powerful as a regular army remember that

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one so the Danny Way dictatorial regimes

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tend to do that to have a counter to the

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Regular Army to you know prevent a coup

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now fast forward to the current ongoing

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situation in Sudan the protesters are

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saying that the in yet the the parties

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that are that have been you know for

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losing using live fire on the protesters

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were the ginger wheat and not the

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Regular Army and I’ve recently read some

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articles that there appears to be

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divisions now within the military who –

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between the Regular Army and the general

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wheat and some commentators are

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beginning to predict possible civil war

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there so that’s okay so that’s

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interesting so you’re saying the Jan J

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weed which are now because I remember

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seeing even reports on TV and this is

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before it was it became you know

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impossible to say anything bad about a

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Muslim in the media that the Janjaweed

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were rounding up black Africans as

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slaves and what could be Christian

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animist or whatever have you but the

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Chandra we’d were distinctly an islamic

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force that were rounding up black

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africans for slaves and actually

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christians had been going over to africa

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to buy them back and return them to

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their villages so i guess it’s the gift

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that keeps on giving for the slavers but

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the the so now you’re saying that

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essentially these guys are also

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basically kind of like chevy stes and

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they’re like the they’re like a

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politicized army for the dictator yes

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okay that’s interesting and now when

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your course when you mention i remember

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distinctly obama talking about his

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little civilian army that was gonna just

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yeah now I get why I did that anyway

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that’s that’s wild yeah and everything

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else in the Arabic news judges one more

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thing on the and the kunta the top guy

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in the juntao a general Braun is of the

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Regular Army but

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everybody thinks our corner court knows

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that the real power behind the hooter is

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the number-two guy which is a general

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hump down Rollo or something like that

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and he’s the head of the ginger weed the

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rep so called rapid support forces on

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horseback if I remember right but yeah

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so so what else have we got in Arabic

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news what’s the big thing today you know

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is the attacked on the oil tankers you

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hear about that well yes it’s it’s huge

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news in its you know I tend to not say

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much when a thing happens fog of war

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information and all that very difficult

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to tell what’s really going on all these

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holes appear to be above the waterline

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do you know what does Arabic news saying

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about this or Persian is first there

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were ok there were two vessels one was

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Norwegian and yeah and those are no

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recent hit vessel those hit a month ago

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you know and a Fujairah

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it’s one of the four vessels hit so we

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had a Norwegian vessel today and a

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Japanese vessel and that’s extremely

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interesting because the premier of Japan

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whatever I’ve got is a baby what ever

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since always Oh whatever yes it was in

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Tara ran trying to talk peace with the

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Iranians to get them to come to the

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table you know really nice hunky-dory

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you’re to the Japanese you know face

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when they were face to face in the

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meantime the IRGC was trying to destroy

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one of the Japanese ships but anyway

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they were wrong okay there were three

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explosions in the Norwegian ship and

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there were supposed to be three

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explosions in the Japanese yet but only

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two of them actually exploded

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now the Arabic news is saying that

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there’s calling them locum which is

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there before a mine which sounds like

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the client that the Raney’s had planted

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mines you know there were ships pass

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through but if you’re saying that the

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looks like the holes are above water

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seems to me that I don’t maybe a torpedo

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or something but anyway there

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just the US army our US military maybe

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never big news calls

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milah any military army sometimes anyway

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they they just released a picture and

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this is showing other Arabic TV channels

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of a small boat of the Iranian re rgc

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loaded with a ballast like 1012 guys

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that approached one of the Japanese

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vessel to get this to extract the

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explosive was the torpedo mine wetters

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to extract it from the Japanese ship

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take it away because the unexploded

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device would had markings on it that

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would identify it as being Iranian and

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they knew we know that for both

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investigations coming down they didn’t

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want to leave any evidence behind so

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they went and stole the evidence when in

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full uniform but apparently some u.s.

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serviceman who got a video of it from a

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long ways ways those very worries not

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very clear but you know with

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enhancements they’ve identified it as a

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sniper GCE on a boat now that’s

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interesting

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wow thank you that’s really interesting

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so Iranians got busted trying to

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retrieve evidence of their own sabotage

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well I mean unless it a I just thinking

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if it’s a double hull boat and the

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inside there’s there’s no reports of any

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oil leaking that I’m aware of

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well listen yeah I’ve heard that but boy

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the smoke coming at it I think so oil is

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burning right fair enough but it kind of

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you’re looking at it kinda reminds me of

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remember when we took down Saddam

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Hussein aren’t great but way back in the

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first war in the quake war actually in

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91 does a swarm when Saddam Hussein

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withdrew from Kuwait he said all the oil

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fields on fire remember all that was and

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I used to own an audio I know what

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burning oil looks like yeah that’s what

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it looked like well well yeah another

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thing that

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just happened yesterday is that the the

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houthis used a cruise missile to bomb an

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airport observatory tower in Saudi

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Arabia so by crew you mean like an

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actual cruise brand missile American

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style cruise missile and you know these

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are they gonna get a cruise missile from

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well they didn’t make it I don’t think

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the Lucy didn’t make it I’m pretty

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confident of that they can barely make a

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sign yeah so I don’t think I got it from

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Ray Athan right I’m gonna guess Iran but

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can Iran make a cruise missile I didn’t

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know that either and this news on me but

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apparently that’s where it came from

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and I don’t know where they got the

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technology I actually I think cruise

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missile is ready just a glorified Nazi

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v1

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remember that the bus bomb all right

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okay well basically a cruise missile but

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they didn’t have any any guidance I know

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right but so now you just build a bus

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bomb and used computers and you got

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guidance GPS well I guess in some ways

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it I guess if it isn’t expected to go

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super fast and you don’t have to worry

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too much about control surfaces I don’t

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know I mean I part of me whenever I fly

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a little drone I think to myself how

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hard would it be to make a scale thing

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of this with automatic automatic GPS

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guidance not very hard I guess but yeah

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still yeah you know I guess the the

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Saudis must be getting increasingly

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ticked off yeah yeah the hope these have

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been using drones for a quarter of a

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year for a couple weeks but now at least

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in Arabic news they’re calling a cruise

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missile so it was like an upgrade anyway

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to put this all together Iran is trying

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to course plus the Saudis in UAE

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the Emiratis now but they’re also put

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poking us in the eye

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trying to get away with as much as they

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can just short of an outright war

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because they don’t really want a war

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with us but it’s just too I guess

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embarrassed it’s and embarrass us and

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see what then get away with uh in hopes

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that being macho unaggressive like this

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is going to unite you know population

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behind them and in fact uh just

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listening to a Kuwaiti professor he was

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saying that that’s what they’re up to

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it’s to try but isn’t the fact that Iran

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is an apocalyptic cult of it so I mean

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it all is but Iran is as apocalyptic as

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the Islamic state was yes wouldn’t you

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say that would impact their strategy

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yeah their whole reason for being is to

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lead the entire Islamic nation in that

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great final war against Western

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Christianity in order to bring up Jesus

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Christ back and you know the Judgment

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Day and all that

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yeah well somehow to look forward to

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right so Barry Webb thank you very much

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for this week’s news Tuesday that was as

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always quite interesting and

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enlightening and gives us some added

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perspective we’ll see you again shortly

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for oddities and peculiarities of the

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origins of Islam

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[Music]

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you