PREVIEW: #AL QAEDA: #AFGHANISTAN: Conversation with Bill Roggio of FDD re the growing institutional footprint of Al Qaeda in the ungoverned and uncontained wilderness of Afghanistan. More tonight.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.8 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. |
| 0:25.8 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 0:28.0 | P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. |
| 0:30.3 | This is John Bachelor in conversation with my colleague Bill Rajo of the Foundation for Defense of democracies about the new UN report that Al Qaeda has expanded its number of training facilities, camps in Afghanistan from 10 to 12. In addition, there |
| 0:46.3 | are a variety of institutional presences throughout the country associated with Al Qaeda, |
| 0:51.6 | such as media centers, safe houses, madrasas, holding areas, transit |
| 0:57.7 | areas. |
| 0:58.7 | Build identifies here that Al Qaeda is not a one-off in Afghanistan, it's institutional, it's vast, it has |
| 1:07.1 | an infrastructure in Afghanistan in the ungoverned space of Afghanistan. Much of this will be critical in coming years because Al Qaeda is now |
| 1:17.2 | firmly established inside a country that given the last 20 years appears exempt from interference from outside. |
| 1:26.0 | Bill Rajo, on the variety of institutions that Al Qaeda has built in Afghanistan so far. |
| 1:34.0 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:35.4 | And is there... |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah, this is obviously very important dis- |
| 1:39.6 | infrastructure. |
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