#AL QAEDA: #ISIS: SYRIA: Colleague Bill Roggio of FDD profiles the leader of the jihadist alliance, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, who claims to have captured Aleppo in the renewed Syrian civil war. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, conversation with my colleague Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, |
| 0:07.6 | who is the leader of the rebel group driving on Damascus out of Idlib province. |
| 0:14.3 | Abu Mohammed Al-Jalani, an old favorite of Longmore Journal, Bill Rajo introduces him, |
| 0:21.3 | including the complication that he and ISIS and Al-Qaeda were once on the same team. |
| 0:28.7 | Are they still on the same team? |
| 0:31.0 | To be interpreted in coming weeks. |
| 0:34.1 | Abu Mohammed al-Jalani, his nom de guerre, rebel jihadist, Idlib province. |
| 0:41.8 | Here's Bill. |
| 0:42.6 | Much on this later tonight. |
| 0:44.3 | This is Abu Mohammed al-Jalani, a longtime jihadist in the region. |
| 0:51.8 | You have to really go back. |
| 0:54.1 | His involvement in the jihad in Iraq during the U.S. |
| 0:58.4 | presence there. |
| 1:00.2 | Ultimately, he wound up leading jihadists in Syria. |
| 1:05.3 | He was part of al-Qaeda's network. |
| 1:08.2 | Some would argue still part of it today. |
| 1:10.7 | He was the guy that was crucial that |
| 1:12.3 | caused the split between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. So he wanted control of the jihad in |
| 1:17.7 | Syria and the Islamic State's founder in first caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. They had a leadership |
| 1:25.0 | dispute. This ultimately led to al-Qaeda ejecting Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his cadre. |
| 1:33.9 | They formed these, again, they formed the Islamic State. |
| 1:36.9 | So al-Qaeda sided with Jalani. |
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