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Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome my colleagues to Sesainu Connie, former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States,

now at the Hudson Institute and Bill Rajo,

keeping the Long War Journal for the Foundation Defense defense of democracies where he's a senior fellow.

I begin with Bill and an extraordinary document from al-Qaeda.

This is Gaza, a war of existence, not a war of borders, and inviting the world's

jihadists to Afghanistan. Bill, at first I thought this might be a send-up. What do you make of it? This document that not

only acknowledges that Al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan but is inviting people to travel to

Afghanistan for what training good evening to you bill good evening John yes the

statement or this this write-up was issued by al Qaeda's Al-Sahab media which is it's basically

central propaganda organ and it's written by Saepalatal who's the who we

believe to be the leader of al-Qaeda, overall leader, not al-Qaeda in Afghanistan or

al-Qaeda in, you know, in the Arabian Peninsula, but al-Qaeda's Amir.

And yeah, he's openly calling for foreigners to come to Afghanistan for training

before they go out and conduct attacks against the West and what he says calls the

Zionist so basically to target Jews and Western targets around the world it

it gained the once then to gain training, experience and knowledge. This is just as we had

reported and feared, John, for years since the collapse of Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover.

Al Qaeda has infrastructure built in Afghanistan, training camps in 10 provinces,

Madraso, religious schools in five provinces, safe houses across the country,

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