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Get some hair time, right, yeah, exactly.

Seventh-table edition.

Crazy article that Mick pointed out in our chat this week about when Al-Shara,

who the president of Syria now, also known as Al-Jalani, former HTS head, visited the White House

today last week and met President Trump.

Also, Jay, you pointed out too.

It was on Veterans Day that they met, which is kind of a little ridiculous.

If you think about it, a guy was an AQ guy.

We had him in jail in Iraq, and, you know, he probably was had a hand in killing a few servicemen. So, you know, it's just a weird, weird kind of optics. They did try and, like, kind of keep it low key, though. Like, there wasn't, like, a big, like, pool spray and stuff like that with him there some are videos came out later of them meeting in the oval office and stuff some

stills and stuff like that um but this article that came out i want to get the the

reporter's name right uh carlata gal uh basically what the article states is that uh

syria's new president umad al shara has formally aligned

with his government with the u.s led coalition against ISIS according to recent reporting from

Carlotta alshara has maintained a quiet corporation with the u.s. counterterrorism efforts since

2016 which is like the big like holy shit really, it's been almost 10 years.

Even though he was part of Al-Qaeda, then he started his own group.

And I guess he's trying to play nice, obviously, and help us with ISIS because it is in his backyard, obviously.

And ISIS and his group were never really, they weren't sending each other Christmas

cards.

So, I mean, I kind of thought this was going on too.

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