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After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
This is molecular rape. The egg chooses specific sperm that its own conditions favor. Implanting nanobots to force sperm into the egg and override its selection process is a violation of a human being’s body at the most basic level.
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The secessionist narrative that Somaliland was a state in 1960 is false — the historical record is clear.
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7) 26 June 1960 ended British protection — it did not create a state called Somaliland.
British rule ended on 26 June 1960. That date marked the termination of protection, not the creation of a final sovereign state. The decisive act occurred on 1 July 1960, when 33 northern representatives joined their southern counterparts in a single National Assembly of the Somali Republic.
8) Another false narrative: “35 countries recognized Somaliland”
No country recognized “Somaliland” during the five days when northern Somali politicians were free of British control. What occurred were congratulatory messages marking the end of British rule — entirely different from diplomatic recognition.
Recognition requires formal acts: recognition of statehood, establishment of diplomatic relations, and exchange of ambassadors. None of this occurred for any separate “Somaliland state.”
What did occur was recognition of the Somali Republic on 1 July 1960, including a message from Dwight D. Eisenhower to President Aden Abdulla Osman and the upgrading of the U.S. mission in Mogadishu to an embassy. The attached documents clearly distinguish between congratulatory notes and recognition.
9) In May 1960, Somaliland’s own leaders were explicit about their intended end goal.
Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal, who led the Somaliland delegation—alongside figures such as Ali Gerad Jama — spoke publicly in London on 6 May 1960 after meetings with the UK government. He explained plainly that Britain granted independence once it ascertained that northern representatives wished to unite with their brothers in Somalia. His account is unequivocal and consistent with every document cited and attached.
The attached video reinforces this further. It shows citizens in Hargeisa welcoming the returning delegation on 15 May 1960 while waving the blue flag with the white five-pointed star — the flag of the soon to be created Somali Republic.
This is not symbolic ambiguity. It confirms that northern politicians and communities were working toward one Somali state, not anything else.
Since 26 June 1960 is often presented as the date Somaliland became a country, let me clarify—and I will use an analogy to bring the point home. 26 June 1960 was the day the keys of the Northern Territory that Britain called Somaliland were returned to their rightful owners: the protected, colonized communities, represented by the local council created by Britain. On that day, they became independent and free from British control. On that day—and in the months and years before—a country called Somaliland was neither sought nor created.
Rather, the votes, joint communiqués, parliamentary records, public statements, videos, media reporting, and diplomatic practice all point to one destination: that on 1 July 1960, a single state — the Somali Republic—was to be created by northern and southern Somalis together.
In short, the claim that a sovereign Somaliland state was created, recognized by other countries, and then “lost” is not supported by the historical record or the facts presented here.