NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 11/6/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TONIGHT)

Two former employees of Twitter accused of being spies for Saudi Arabia.   Federal indictments of the two men unsealed in San Francisco today.

They are accused of using their Twitter jobs to obtain information about people using Twitter who were opponents of the Saudi government.

One of the two men is a US citizen under arrest and the other is a Saudi citizen who has fled the country.

Also charged in the case is Ahmed Almutairi who is a marketing official close to the Saudi royal family.

Turkey's TRT World reports that the three were guided by an unnamed Saudi official who worked for a person called "Royal Family Member-1".     The "Washington Post" saying that person is Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

More from "TRT World"......LINK

A less detailed story was published by CNN.......LINK

UPDATING THE CASE OF SCHAEFFER COX MENTIONED IN OUR MONDAY SUMMARY THE ALASKA MAN CONVICTED OF FEDERAL CRIMES FOR HIS CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AND MILITIAS HAS SEEN HIS SENTENCE REDUCED THIS WEEK.

THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST HIM SOLICITATION TO MURDER FEDERAL OFFICIALS OVERTURNED BY THE NINTH US CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS.

SCHAEFFER COX'S SENTENCE NOW 15 YEARS INSTEAD OF 27 AND AFTER SERVING SOME SEVEN YEARS IN A FEDERAL ISOLATION UNIT USED FOR CONVICTED TERRORISTS HE STILL FACES EIGHT MORE YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT.

Jury selection completed today for the trial of Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Trump who is being prosecuted in connection with the activities of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.

Opening arguments in the trial began later today.

Stone has pled not guilty to obstruction of justice, witness tampering and lying to a Democrat controlled US House committee.

A gag order has been imposed on Stone by the judge in the case, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, preventing him from arguing his innocence outside the courtroom prior to the trial.

Iran says its getting ready to inject gas into the centrifuges at its Fordow facility in what is the fourth phase of moving away from the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement that the United States has already withdrawn from.

Iran's Press TV has more.....LINK   

In Tajikistan 17 are reported dead, 15 of them members of ISIS.   Tajik authorities say ISIS launched an attack on a border post at the Uzbekistan border.     

There have been a number of reports saying that ISIS members were moved to Central Asia as the coalition forces defeated Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

It is said that the coalition fighting Islamic State led by the United States was involved in the movement.

The BBC has more on today's attack...LINK

"Southfront" has more on the situation....LINK

In Yemen a peace accord between the Saudi backed Yemeni government and United Arab Emirates backed rebels.   The two sides have been fighting each other in recent months hampering the ability of the Saudi military alliance backed by the United States and United Kingdom in its fight with Iranian backed Houthi rebels.

The United Arab Emirates is suspected of being involved in an air attack on a migrant center last July in Libya.     53 killed and 130 wounded in the attack.

The center was in the government controlled part of the country and the air attack was carried out on behalf of General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army.

The United Nations has carried out a confidential investigation but a source has leaked to the media.   More from the BBC.....LINK

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting more than 40 airstrikes by Russian and Syrian aircraft in northwestern Syria today.     The strikes targeting opposition jihadist forces in the region.

The political drama in Washington with House Democrats intending to hold public hearings next week in their "impeachment inquiry".     Starting next Wednesday three selected witnesses will publicly testify in an apparent effort to reach the court of public opinion.

The Deputy Leader of Britain's Labor Party, Tom Watson, stepping down in the midst of the campaign for the December 12th General Election.      This appears to be the latest in a series of events-actions designed to enable Boris Johnson to win the election and undermine the Labor Party's leader Jeremy Corbyn.

And for now in an abbreviated edition that's the way it really is Wednesday November 6th, 2019.