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Though they largely put down the putsch, many then turned their wrath on Alawites, a largely impoverished minority that constitutes some 10% of the country’s population and which dominated Assad-era security services and state bureaucracy.

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The Pizzagate-pushing host said the Trump administration would have total power to run such a putsch against the opposition.

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However, the venerable flag has been co-opted by Christians who think Trump deserved a putsch because the courts refused to take his frivolous election fraud lawsuits seriously.

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Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, initially offered little detail about the purported putsch in the capital, Kinshasa, other than to say that the plotters and their leader had been “put out of action.”

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Not for those who suffered in the “dirty war” under the junta, but for those victims of leftist guerrillas before the putsch.

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