AlQaeda: Not a leader, not confirmed. Bill Roggio, FDD.
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
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#AlQaeda: Not a leader, not confirmed. Bill Roggio, FDD.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/18/pentagon-drone-strike-syria-civilian-al-qaeda/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.4 | Here's John Bachelorette. |
| 0:11.1 | Afghanistan. |
| 0:12.1 | We begin with the story of the moment of an AI-generated picture of the Pentagon burning. |
| 0:20.4 | Generated falsely. |
| 0:21.9 | However, it led to incident on Wall Street. |
| 0:25.3 | A cell-off, a sharp cell-off, were told. |
| 0:27.9 | I don't trust any of this now, but I'm reporting what we're told. |
| 0:32.2 | That AI-generated image is not very convincing, but you don't have time to hesitate when |
| 0:40.0 | you're trading with algorithms at the scale of the Wall Street trades and other markets. |
| 0:45.3 | However, the report says Russian media spread the word everywhere about this attack on |
| 0:52.0 | the Pentagon. |
| 0:53.0 | It's false. |
| 0:54.0 | It's entirely false. |
| 0:55.3 | The reason I mention it is that I welcome Bill Rojo of the Foundation for the Defense |
| 0:59.9 | of Democracy, who keeps the long-word journal with his colleagues. |
| 1:04.0 | In mentioning that, the false image, we come to images that were provided by, I believe, |
| 1:10.6 | the Pentagon, a drone image that the Washington Post reproduces, of what is said to be a KIA |
| 1:17.0 | of a senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria. |
| 1:22.0 | Now the Pentagon has retracted this statement. |
| 1:25.1 | So Bill, I complicate all of our lives here by saying we always waited for a martyr tape |
| 1:32.2 | or in some fashion, a declaration by al-Qaeda or ISIS or the Taliban of a KIA. |
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