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think everybody at Dropsite is solid.

Same thing.

Yeah, exactly.

So the next one here, report says the UAE is secretly helping Ansar Allah fight Saudi Arabia.

So this is from Dropsite News from Ryan Grimm and Iona Craig.

Another thing, when I initially saw the headline, I thought... how could that be possible? Just because of the history of how horrific the war was, you know, this Saudi-UAE coalition against Ansar Allah.

But, you know, in this war in Yemen, it's not unheard of for people to change sides and everything.

But what this report says is that the United Arab Emirates has been quietly assisting Ansar Allah and its conflict against Saudi-backed forces inside Yemen.

Four sources with knowledge of the situation told Dropsite News, specifically various UAE-aligned Yemeni forces have been providing targeting assistance to Ansar Allah in their battle against Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen while Abu Dhabi has looked the other way.

Um, so this is what this, this, uh, report is alleging.

Um, And there's a quote here from an Ansar Allah official denying this, but also saying that the UAE has stayed neutral in the conflict, that they're not helping either side, which is kind of interesting.

Meanwhile, we're sitting there talking about the price of our digestives and how much more they're going to go up.

But I do think Donald Trump, there's an interesting piece of Breaking Points with the Dropsite News guy where he was talking about how Donald Trump actually relishes insulting and leaning into the pain of those who've supported him who don't have money.

He sees them as stupid.

That's why he did what he did

As we go to air, the site is still out of commission, meaning that until further notice, Egyptians will have to go without its coverage of the news in their country and the surrounding region, including investigations into Egyptian officials and institutions.

Sharif Abdel-Kadous is a former Mada Masr staffer who now works as the Middle East and North Africa editor at Dropsite News.

We reached him in New York shortly before Lina Atala was released.

Sharif, I know you had contacts in the courtroom.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Sharif Abdel-Kadous is a former Mada Masr staffer who now works as the Middle East and North Africa editor at Dropsite News.

We reached him in New York shortly before Lina Atala's release.

After the court's ruling, Attala was taken into custody.

We're joined right now by Sharif Abdel-Kadous, the Middle East editor at Dropsite News, previously worked at Matamasa in Egypt for four years as a journalist and editor.

Sharif, talk about the significance of this breaking news.

Well, Amy, this is a dark day for journalism, not just in Egypt, but in the entire Arab world.

ramping up the war yet again, a war that was supposed to last four to six weeks, and now we are eight or nine months into it.

Dropsite News reporter Ryan Grim was on the Breaking Points podcast and was discussing this, and I want to watch what he had to say about this.

With oil prices surging around the globe and with an election scheduled in Israel on Tuesday, there is a full-blown political crisis going on with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressuring...

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After the court's ruling, Attala was taken into custody.

We're joined right now by Sharif Abdel-Kadous, the Middle East editor at Dropsite News, previously worked at Matamasa in Egypt for four years as a journalist and editor.

Sharif, talk about the significance of this breaking news.

Well, Amy, this is a dark day for journalism, not just in Egypt, but in the entire Arab world.

After the court's ruling, Attala was taken into custody.

We're joined right now by Sharif Abdel-Kadous, the Middle East editor at Dropsite News, previously worked at Matamasa in Egypt for four years as a journalist and editor.

Sharif, talk about the significance of this breaking news.

Well, Amy, this is a dark day for journalism, not just in Egypt, but in the entire Arab world.