Good evening: The show begins in Afghanistan where there is a rumor that the US will lift the bounty reward on mass killer Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Kabul elite.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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1872 TJIKISTAN
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9-915 #AFGHANISTAN: RUMORS OF THE HAQQANI NETWORK. BILL ROGGIO FDD, HUSAIN HAQQANI HUDSON 915-930 #YEMEN: USN AND USAF VS HOUTHIS. BILL ROGGIO FDD, HUSAIN HAQQANI HUDSON 930-945 #GAZA: THIRD DIVISION PUSHES INTO THE HAMAS LAST DITCH. DAVID DAOUD, BILL ROGGIO, FDD 945-1000 #LEBANON: HARASSMENT ROCKETS TO INTIMIDATE RESIDENT RETURN. DAVID DAOUD, BILL ROGGIO, FDD
SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #IRAN: MYSTERIOUS OIL PATCH FIRE AT ABADAN, MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1 @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1015-1030 #TURKIYE: CRACKDOWN. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1 @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1030-1045 #PRC: DEFLATION. ANNE STEVENSON-YANG. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL 1045-1100 #CANADA: CENTRAL BANKER CARNEY CLAIMS REVERSAL ON GREEN POLICIES. CHARLES BURTON, OTTAWA
THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #NEWWORLDREPORT: TREN DE ARAGUA ON THE HILL. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1115-1130 #NEWWORLDREPORT: "WEAPONIZED MIGRATION." JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1130-1145 #NEWWORLDREPORT: #ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERISTAS CALL A STRIKE. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1145-1200 #NEWWORLDREPORT: ECUADOR AND PANAMA SUFFER PRC BULLYING. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE
FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #RUSSIA: RT RETURNS. IVANA STRADNER FDD 1215-1230 #SERBIA: RT FIRMLY PRESENT FOR THE DISORDER. IVANA STRADNER FDD 1230-1245 #UKRAINE: BELGOROD GAMBIT. JOHN HARDIE, FDD. 1245-100 am #UKRAINE: BLACK SEA CEASEFIRE PROPOSED. JOHN HARDIE FDD
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight in Afghanistan. There is a rumor spread by the Taliban |
| 0:07.0 | that Siraj Haqqqani, the head of the Haqqqani network fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan during |
| 0:15.2 | the long 20 years the U.S. was there, is to be relieved of the $10 million bounty on his head. He is an al-Qaeda whisperer. |
| 0:26.0 | Al-Qaeda is camped in Afghanistan. Bill Raju and I discuss it, and we can't come to a conclusion. |
| 0:33.1 | It might be that the State Department is looking at Siraj Akani as someone to network with the |
| 0:39.3 | people of Afghanistan. I can't make a case for it, but there it is. They did negotiate the |
| 0:45.9 | Taliban deal, in 2019, which the Taliban broke in every piece and then took the country back. |
| 0:51.9 | So, just talk for now. |
| 1:02.5 | And then a conversation with Bill and were joined by Hussain O'Connor of the Hudson Institute, |
| 1:05.2 | a conversation about the Houthis. |
| 1:11.7 | The Houthis have resisted bending a knee to the U.S. Navy. |
| 1:17.9 | The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force are now said to begin a campaign, an air campaign, |
| 1:23.3 | to make the Houthis unable to interrupt Red Sea traffic. |
| 1:26.6 | However, with the missiles they get from Iran, they can do it indefinitely. |
| 1:28.8 | So what is to be done? |
| 1:31.5 | Bombing doesn't intimidate the Houthis. |
| 1:33.1 | They're planted in North Yemen. |
| 1:37.4 | What is ahead is the choice about boots on the ground or going after the source of the missiles, which is Iran. |
| 1:43.6 | One word at a time. |
| 1:46.1 | And then a conversation with David Dayoud about the Gaza War, which continues again. |
| 1:51.1 | The third division of the IDF is now said to be deployed into Gaza. |
| 1:56.4 | They're occupying pieces of Gaza, perhaps con units, perhaps Gaza City. |
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