2/2: #SYRIA: Is al-Jolani Al Qaeda/ ISIS? Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
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| 0:40.3 | Haseena Kani of the Hudson Institute, Bill Rajah, |
| 0:43.2 | the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, the Great Powers, |
| 0:51.3 | drawn into or engaged or at some point in retreat from the disorder in Damascus, |
| 0:55.9 | the capital of Syria, but all of Syria has been darkness visible since the rising of the so-called Arab Spring of more than a dozen years ago. Bill, Russia is said |
| 1:03.7 | to be withdrawing some major elements of its military deployment in Syria. The U.S. at this point |
| 1:10.7 | is said to have President Biden speaking |
| 1:13.7 | with Al Jolani or his representative saying, don't do ISIS. Don't be ISIS. In the meantime, |
| 1:19.8 | the U.S. has sent bombers over ISIS in parts of Syria and northeast Syria. Russia, the United States, |
| 1:27.3 | those are great powers. |
| 1:29.0 | Ankara, Turkey in the region is a regional hegemon, and Turkey is said to be backing HTS. |
| 1:35.5 | In fact, those trucks that they ride through the streets of Aleppo and Holmes and eventually |
| 1:39.9 | Damascus, those are Turkish military trucks. |
| 1:42.7 | And then we have the European Union, and then we have |
| 1:45.4 | Israel. All the powers are involved here. Are they being drawn in? Are they getting out? And what does this |
| 1:52.4 | mean for all the other conflicts that we've been engaged in this last year? I'm thinking of Hamas, |
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