SYRIA: GUNFIGHT. AHMAD SHARAWI, BILL ROGGIO, FDD continued
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:59.6 | This is CBSI on the world with Bill Rajo and Akman Shurari of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 1:06.1 | We're commenting on headlines that are within hours of what appears to be significant fighting going on in |
| 1:14.0 | Syria between Bedouins, Druze, and the Syrian National Army, aka Al-Qaeda once upon a time. |
| 1:22.3 | Bill, you have a question for Ahmed. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, Ahmed, you note that the Syrian military, you and I both have reported on this, |
| 1:29.0 | but your article over to national interest, highly recommend people read it, that there's |
| 1:34.0 | a foreign jihadist problem within the actual Syrian military. |
| 1:38.7 | How, in instances like these, again, how can groups like the Alawites and the Druze trust a Syrian |
| 1:47.1 | military when there's these radical foreign jihadists, the Turkestan Islamic Party, which you note |
| 1:52.4 | has over 3,000 fighters. It takes commands from, this is according to the United Nations |
| 1:59.7 | analytical support and sanctions monitoring |
| 2:01.9 | team, takes command from an al-Qaeda leader inside of Afghanistan. How could they be, just how |
| 2:09.2 | can these various groups trust Sharra's government to look after their own interest to protect |
| 2:14.8 | them? I mean, they shouldn't. |
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