I wanted to reach out to you regarding some of your earlier research on Hezbollah in North Carolina and share some of my own findings, which have disturbing implications in present day North Carolina.

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I've discovered that Hezbollah's network is not only alive and well in North Carolina, but has found interesting new partners for the 21st century.
I discovered this the other day, which attaches an economic theory to what I've already found on my own:
https://t.co/gOLazcjpFQ

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This thread provides some detail that, while not exactly solid proof represents a hot smoking gun of sorts:

https://t.co/lBtK6PeAVh

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The following thread represents another facet of my work, which tangentially connects. More smoking guns:

https://t.co/MYBDnYCSIZ

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As a *former* Assistant Managing Editor of The Washington Times, I think you'll appreciate the significance of this, as it relates to my research on Hezbollah.

Hezbollah, as you probably know, trains in and is armed by North Korea.

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And I would argue, as would some North Korea experts, that North Korea is not a Communist dictatorship, it is a literal mafia state, much like Russia has become.

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I am taking a second look at history and drawing different conclusions...

https://t.co/rQHnxrXJFg

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Of particular interest is the convergence of North Korean drug trafficking, Hezbollah's networks, and the extent of methamphetamine abuse in Appalachia.

https://t.co/23mzpOqyGv

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And the North Korean/Hezbollah nexus is well known.

https://t.co/ZgoNUqnqHS

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As is Hezbollah's long drug history of trafficking methamphetamine...

https://t.co/JfEPODdQsz

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Two things can be true at once:
1. There is an issue with hostility some academics have faced on some issues
2. Another academic who himself uses threats of legal action to bully colleagues into silence is not a good faith champion of the free speech cause


I have kept quiet about Matthew's recent outpourings on here but as my estwhile co-author has now seen fit to portray me as an enabler of oppression I think I have a right to reply. So I will.

I consider Matthew to be a colleague and a friend, and we had a longstanding agreement not to engage in disputes on twitter. I disagree with much in the article @UOzkirimli wrote on his research in @openDemocracy but I strongly support his right to express such critical views

I therefore find it outrageous that Matthew saw fit to bully @openDemocracy with legal threats, seeking it seems to stifle criticism of his own work. Such behaviour is simply wrong, and completely inconsistent with an academic commitment to free speech.

I am not embroiling myself in the various other cases Matt lists because, unlike him, I think attention to the detail matters and I don't have time to research each of these cases in detail.

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