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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Afghanistan where the sheik of Al-Qaeda, Al-Sayf, issues a pamphlet that beckons jihadists to travel to Afghanistan to receive training for transnational attacks. To Kabul, Brussels, Beijing, EU, to Moscow, Beijing, Pyongy

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Afghanistan where the sheik of Al-Qaeda, Al-Sayf, issues a pamphlet that beckons jihadists to travel to Afghanistan to receive training for transnational attacks.

To Kabul, Brussels, Beijing, EU, to Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang and Tehran re: nuclear weapons. To Gaza, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and celebration for rescued hostages. To Lebanon, Cape Town, Santiago, Caracas, Havana, Brasilia, and Mexico City.

1910 Grenadier London

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0:00.0

Good evening. The show begins tonight in Afghanistan where Al Qaeda has sent out an invitation

0:06.1

pamphlet to all the jihadists to gather in Afghanistan for training before they launch their

0:12.4

transnational attacks.

0:14.6

The Taliban is fully aware of this.

0:16.4

I speak to Bill Rajo of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

0:21.3

The striking things that Taliban is not denying,

0:24.0

Sencom's not denying, Al Qaeda is bold,

0:28.0

and as Bill says, they don't care what other people think,

0:31.0

they know that NATO and the US is not coming back. I ask Asana Kani, the former

0:39.5

ambassador from Pakistan and the United States, what effect this will have on Pakistan and

0:43.8

India. Very little because everybody knows that it's going on. So they've already

0:49.4

prepared their understanding of the al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. To my

0:56.9

knowledge, the only people who are not fully informed of this extraordinary

1:00.6

development, a pamphlet, or the American people who paid for the Afghanistan

1:05.3

war for 20 years. And then it stopped, and there's no evidence of success, not left that I can see from outside.

1:16.2

And then on to the results from the European Union election.

1:22.2

I speak with Anne Stevenson Yang about what effect this

1:25.5

will have on the China trade which is said to be in doubt in Europe the way different

1:31.3

from the way it used to be Europe's looking for other suppliers.

1:34.8

I speak to Gordon Chang about it.

1:37.0

And then Peter Hughes joins.

1:40.8

Comment upon the Russian, North Korean, Chinese, Tehran ambition to add nuclear weapons to their arsenal and what is to be done.

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