Hi, I'm Mark and Dan Snow's history at I am back on dry land. I was on a ship down in

Cornwall for the last couple of days. It was a great experience. Make your program on

Trafalgar. You'll be seeing on history at dot TV coming soon. But this episode of the

podcast has nothing to do with that. I'm back on dry land. I'm warm. I'm warming up my

toes. I want a slowly trickling back to my extremities. It's like time of year again,

folks. Winter is coming. Anyway, this episode of podcast is actually one in which we

feature one of our sibling podcasts. We have our network of podcasts here at Team History

here, which millions of you are listening to. So thank you very much. Can't believe it. Building

quite a big thing here. This is warfare with James Rogers. He talks to Dr Assel Ashreff.

He's an expert in al Qaeda's ideology and violent religious extremism. This is all about the

history of al Qaeda. The organization that people are talking about once more following the

fall of Kabul to their former allies in the Taliban. Will we be hearing more from al Qaeda in

the years to come? Well, Dr Assel Ashreff is going to tell us fascinating stuff. If you like

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Last week was our record week. This week's looking pretty good too. Exciting stuff, everyone.

And we have got big plans, which you're going to be hearing about quite soon, which is going to

be fun. In the meantime, folks, here's Dr Assel Ashreff. Enjoy.

Hi, I think welcome to the historyhit warfare podcast. How you doing today?

I'm fine. Thank you, James. Lovely to see you.

Yeah. Great to see you again. Great to talk. I think the last time I saw you is when

we were in Denmark at a military transformations conference. And I think I was giving

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