the request to dig about RIIA also brought up RUSI. For some reason, the acronym is somewhat familiar as a variation of the spelling assumed to be RUSSIA in a drop previously about access.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/david-wearing/why-is-bbc-presenting-rusi-as-objective-analysts-of-middle-east

RUSI is a British think-tank, focusing on military affairs, which serves not only as a source of quotes for journalists but also frequently provides content for the BBC News website. Eleven of these contributions have been reviewed for this article, relating specifically to the Middle East and drawn from the past twelve months (full list below). One formed part of a ‘roundtable’ alongside contributions by a selection of experts from other organisations, but the rest were single articles written by a RUSI member of staff (one co-written with a freelance journalist). Three of the eleven, including the ‘roundtable’ were given the heading ‘Viewpoint’, while the other eight were not. The underlying rationale for this distinction was not obvious from the content, but the effect was to elevate the majority of RUSI’s contributions to the status of objective, apolitical analysis or explanation.

This is deeply problematic. RUSI is not a neutral organisation, it is politically located, and its perspectives and priorities are highly contestable. A question can be raised about the BBC granting it such a regular platform, where some of that space might instead be given to others. But an additional problem arises where its voice is raised above the fray of mere ‘viewpoints’ into the realm of expert explanation. In conferring this authority on the RUSI worldview, the BBC is further empowering the think-tank to shape the deeper frames within which political discussion takes place.

So what is the RUSI worldview? The institute traces its history back to 1829, and the Duke of Wellington’s efforts to establish a source of expert analysis and advice for British military policy. Today, its patron is the Queen, its President is the Duke of Kent, its Senior Vice President is former US General and CIA chief David Petraeus, its Chairman is the former British defence secretary Lord Hutton, and its council includes an array of current and former politicians and military personnel. Notwithstanding its description of itself as ‘independent’, therefore, RUSI is very much a creature of the British state and military establishment, without which it would neither have been created nor would it exist in recognisable form today.

Sounds like mockingbird for the Brits via BBC.

>>2846452

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/saleha-mahmood-abedin/

(updated today strangely enough)

Born in 1940 in what is now Pakistan, Saleha Mahmood Abedin is the widow of the late Syed Abedin, an Indian-born academic who taught at the prestigious King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia during the early 1970s. In 1976 Saleha gave birth to a daughter, Huma Abedin, while she and her husband were living in the United States. The following year, Saleha earned a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Did notice that her last name prior to marriage was not listed.

All this talk of Alice & Wonderland has anon wondering if

Rabita Trust and the Muslim Student Association are the link through/to

HUMA

https://medium.com/@stranahan/the-saudi-connection-to-terrorism-part-2-the-muslim-students-association-the-abedin-family-fc909435d4b4

The Muslim World League has a charitable arm called the Rabita Trust. On October 12th, 2001 the New York Times reported that the Rabita Trust’s assets had been frozen for their role in funding terrorism. The Timesreported on a list of groups and individuals connected to terror funding that they said “appears for the first time to draw a direct link between Mr. bin Laden and prominent members of Saudi society.”

Although the administration consulted with European allies before proceeding with the latest names, it did not alert Saudi Arabia ahead of time, one official said.

The list was released as Saudi Arabia is trying to walk a fine line between its alliance with the United States and its commitment to a stark interpretation of Islam espoused by many radical opponents of America.

Also on the list is Rabita Trust, a Pakistani charity that at least until recently had Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, on its board. Administration officials said they warned President Musharraf of the impending order against the Rabita Trust and encouraged him to disassociate himself from what they described as its founder’s links to Al Qaeda, Mr. bin Laden’s terrorist network.

http://www.wbdaily.com/national/khizr-khan-and-huma-are-the-same/

https://indianamericansagainsthillary.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/it-is-not-just-huma-it-is-maruna/

“On page 3 of their 11-page report, the agents detail how they showed Abedin a classified paper on Pakistan sent from a State Department source which she, in turn, inexplicably forwarded to her personal Yahoo email account — an obviously unclassified, unencrypted, unsecured and unauthorized system. The breach of security was not an isolated event but a common practice with Abedin.”

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Then we have reports suggesting that Huma is messing with confidential information on Pakistan, hiding it in her private emails and perhaps colluding with ISI using her ancestral ties with Pakistan.

And we have Muslim Brotherhood doctrines promoting use of marriages of its members to high officials using deception, breaking of Sharia Code to gain confidential information. And all these elements are are present in these elections. Hence its not just Huma but Maruna. Will Americans be smart enough to see through it and reject it ? That is the essence of this year’s elections.