GOOD EVENING: The show begins in Syria, asking how the jihadissts are to be trusted?
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR Monday December 16, 2024
Listen live 9-1 AM ET at wabcradio.com
FIRST HOUR
Syria 9-9:30 - HTS and Al Qaeda jihadists in Damascus. With Bill Roggio @FDD & Husain Haqqani @Hudson_Org
Ukraine 9:30-10 - Russia encircles unreinforced Ukrainian forces; General Frost advances. With John Hardie & Bill Roggio @FDD
SECOND HOUR
Israel 10-10:30 - Updates on Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis & Tehran. With David Daoud & Bill Roggio @LongWarJournal @FDD
New World Report 10:30-11 - Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang; Brazil's economy. With Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc & Ernesto Araujo, former Brazilian Foreign Minister
THIRD HOUR
11-12 - "Disappearing the President" - Lee Smith discusses his new book on threats to Trump & democracy. Featuring interviews with Trump, Nunes, Bongino & others.
FOURTH HOUR
Russia & Asia 12-12:30 - Russia's ports strategy with Ekaterina Zolotova @GPFutures 12:30-1 - South Korea constitutional crisis; PRC military capabilities. With Tara O, Bill Gertz & Gordon Chang
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchelor. It's happy birthday, Ludwig von Beethoven. Wonderful. |
| 0:08.1 | The middle of December each year, I think of it eventually. |
| 0:12.4 | All the joy that Beethoven's brought all these centuries. And we continue. The show opens tonight in Syria with Bill Rajo and Hossein Okane, |
| 0:24.8 | asking questions as everyone's asking. |
| 0:27.5 | These are jihadists. |
| 0:28.6 | This is al-Qaeda. |
| 0:30.1 | Is this a government? |
| 0:32.1 | The conversation will continue for some time. |
| 0:35.8 | The leader of the HTS, Harat Harir al-Sham, is a known jihadist with a |
| 0:44.1 | bounty on his head, $10 million. The HTS itself is made up of jihadists all sworn allegiance |
| 0:52.1 | to al-Qaeda. Is it trustworthy? |
| 0:56.1 | No. |
| 0:57.1 | Is it reliable? |
| 0:58.4 | No. |
| 0:59.3 | Is it made up of men who probably are being pursued for their brutality in the past? |
| 1:05.9 | Yes. |
| 1:07.2 | We can't settle it. |
| 1:08.9 | We comment on one particular party, the Turk-Kistan Islamic Party, represented in Damascus. |
| 1:16.1 | It's made up of Uyghurs and others in violent revolt against the People's Republic of China and everybody else in the region. |
| 1:23.0 | It used to be headquartered in Pakistan, I learned from Bill Rosh. |
| 1:27.0 | Now they're headquartered in Afghanistan, I learned from Bill Rosh. Now they're headquartered in Afghanistan |
| 1:29.7 | under the protection of the Taliban. I speak to Hussain O'Conni about this. Hussein makes the |
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