Syria not a threat to world, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa tells BBC

[Hume]

The de facto leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has said the country is exhausted by war and is not a threat to its neighbours or to the West.

In an interview with the BBC in Damascus, he called for sanctions on Syria to be lifted.

"Now, after all that has happened, sanctions must be lifted because they were targeted at the old regime. The victim and the oppressor should not be treated in the same way," he said.

Syria not a threat to world, HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa tells BBC

In an interview with Jeremy Bowen, the leader of the rebel group HTS says sanctions on Syria should be lifted.

www.bbc.com

 

[ExpressLane]

The de facto leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has said the country is exhausted by war and is not a threat to its neighbours or to the West.

In an interview with the BBC in Damascus, he called for sanctions on Syria to be lifted.

"Now, after all that has happened, sanctions must be lifted because they were targeted at the old regime. The victim and the oppressor should not be treated in the same way," he said.

Syria not a threat to world, HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa tells BBC

In an interview with Jeremy Bowen, the leader of the rebel group HTS says sanctions on Syria should be lifted.

www.bbc.com

I hope he is right. Let your kids live in peace.

 

[Hume]

I hope he is right. Let your kids live in peace.

Unfortunately, the US has helped Assad stay in power. Now the US uses Israel to bomb Syria. Fucked up.

 

[Diogenes]

"Now, after all that has happened, sanctions must be lifted because they were targeted at the old regime. The victim and the oppressor should not be treated in the same way," he said.

That old trick? Nah.

 

[Hume]

That old trick? Nah.

What trick? Try using words instead of pictures.

 

[Diogenes]

What trick? Try using words instead of pictures.

I suspect he wants the sanctions lifted, any sequestered funds unfrozen, and that sweet sweet western aid money.

 

[Hume]

I suspect he wants the sanctions lifted, any sequestered funds unfrozen, and that sweet sweet western aid money.

Why is that bad?

 

[Diogenes]

Why is that bad?

The Taliban already showed us the pitfalls of believing radical Islamists.

Afghanistan: One year of the Taliban’s broken promises, draconian restrictions and violence

Since seizing control of Afghanistan a year ago, the Taliban have mounted a sustained attack on human rights, persecuting minority groups, violently clamping down on peaceful protests, suppressing women’s rights and using extrajudicial executions and disappearances to spread fear among Afghans...

www.amnesty.org

 

[Hume]

The Taliban already showed us the pitfalls of believing radical Islamists.

Afghanistan: One year of the Taliban’s broken promises, draconian restrictions and violence

Since seizing control of Afghanistan a year ago, the Taliban have mounted a sustained attack on human rights, persecuting minority groups, violently clamping down on peaceful protests, suppressing women’s rights and using extrajudicial executions and disappearances to spread fear among Afghans...

www.amnesty.org

Syria is not Afghanistan.

 

[Diogenes]

Syria is not Afghanistan.

You don't say?

Perhaps that's why I didn't say it was.

There's a common denominator. See if you can figure it out and let me know.

 

[Hume]

You don't say?

Perhaps that's why I didn't say it was.

There's a common denominator. See if you can figure it out and let me know.

couldn't care less

 

[Diogenes]

couldn't care less

Then you're on your own.

Meanwhile...

Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a (AKA al-Julani) is a Syrian - his nom de guerre “Julani” references the Golan Heights.

A child of the "palestinian" second intifada, he went to Iraq in 2003 to ne inculcated in terrorist tactics and was a senior player in Al Qaeda there (of course he denies that).

He was caught by the Americans in 2006 under Bush and released by Obama in 2011, at which point al-Baghdadi packed him off to Syria with a bundle of cash, probably from one of Obama's infamous pallet-fulls of dollars.

He did his evil work well.

He recruited from Al Qaeda, Islamic State, and other Islamist hardliners. One, Al-Nusra, was so successful mounting terror attacks against the Assad regime that Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) proposed a merger.

Under his alias, Al-Julani refused, and the two terrorist groups had a very public falling-out, after which al-Nusra fought a successful campaign to minimize Islamic State influence in NW Syria.

Al-Nusra also fought with Al Qaeda in 2016 and went through one of many rebrands. Rebrands and infrighting with other terrorist cells is a habit with Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a (AKA al-Julani).

Al-Nusra reinvented itself as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS).

JFS gobbled up four other jihadi terror groups and merged with them to become HTS (remember them?) in early 2017.

Since the Russian-Turkish ceasefire in 2020, HTS has been consolidating power in NW Syria.

They cracked down on Islamic State affiliate Hurras Al-Din (HAD), who had opposed the HTS merger.

It’s rumored that HTS was behind the intelligence that allowed the US to take out HAD’s leaders in 2021.

And now, with Turkish backing, they’ve exploited the collapse of Hezbollah in Lebanon (who were, believe it or not, Assad’s allies) to overthrow the Assad regime itself.

 

[Hume]

Then you're on your own.

Meanwhile...

Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a (AKA al-Julani) is a Syrian - his nom de guerre “Julani” references the Golan Heights.

A child of the "palestinian" second intifada, he went to Iraq in 2003 to ne inculcated in terrorist tactics and was a senior player in Al Qaeda there (of course he denies that).

He was caught by the Americans in 2006 under Bush and released by Obama in 2011, at which point al-Baghdadi packed him off to Syria with a bundle of cash, probably from one of Obama's infamous pallet-fulls of dollars.

He did his evil work well.

He recruited from Al Qaeda, Islamic State, and other Islamist hardliners. One, Al-Nusra, was so successful mounting terror attacks against the Assad regime that Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) proposed a merger.

Under his alias, Al-Julani refused, and the two terrorist groups had a very public falling-out, after which al-Nusra fought a successful campaign to minimize Islamic State influence in NW Syria.

Al-Nusra also fought with Al Qaeda in 2016 and went through one of many rebrands. Rebrands and infrighting with other terrorist cells is a habit with Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a (AKA al-Julani).

Al-Nusra reinvented itself as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS).

JFS gobbled up four other jihadi terror groups and merged with them to become HTS (remember them?) in early 2017.

Since the Russian-Turkish ceasefire in 2020, HTS has been consolidating power in NW Syria.

They cracked down on Islamic State affiliate Hurras Al-Din (HAD), who had opposed the HTS merger.

It’s rumored that HTS was behind the intelligence that allowed the US to take out HAD’s leaders in 2021.

And now, with Turkish backing, they’ve exploited the collapse of Hezbollah in Lebanon (who were, believe it or not, Assad’s allies) to overthrow the Assad regime itself.

you either post stupid pictures or plagiarize texts

 

[Diogenes]

I wonder why the radical jihadists are trying to persuade the west that they're really nice guys...

Hume says he couldn't care less, so...

Switzerland reports $112 million in frozen Syrian assets​

https://www.reuters.com/world/switzerland-reports-112-mln-frozen-syrian-assets-2024-12-11/

 

[Diogenes]

you either post stupid pictures or plagiarize texts

Do I?

 

[Hume]

Do I?

Do I?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

The de facto leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has said the country is exhausted by war and is not a threat to its neighbours or to the West.

In an interview with the BBC in Damascus, he called for sanctions on Syria to be lifted.

"Now, after all that has happened, sanctions must be lifted because they were targeted at the old regime. The victim and the oppressor should not be treated in the same way," he said.

Syria not a threat to world, HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa tells BBC

In an interview with Jeremy Bowen, the leader of the rebel group HTS says sanctions on Syria should be lifted.

www.bbc.com

Yet...

 

[Diogenes]

Looks like some people, unlike Hume, do care.

Syria sanctions relief premature for now, top EU official says​

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syria-sanctions-relief-premature-now-top-eu-official-says-2024-12-15/

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Syria is not Afghanistan.

Yet...

 

[Hume]

Yet...

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