I’m late on this. So, a man who was wanted by the US as an Al Qaeda terrorist, who was also head of the “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an armed Islamist group which the US officially considered a terrorist organisation until four months ago, with a $10m bounty on his head”…
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Trump Flatters Former Al Qaeda Now Syrian President al-Sharaa, Lifts Sanctions on Syria… No Mention of Minority Massacres… What’s the Game?
Trump said of the brief meeting in Saudi Arabia with the Syrian interim president and Islamist al-Sharaa that it went “great”, saying the Syrian is a “young, attractive guy. Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past. Fighter.” Trump likes to flatter the leaders he meets, it’s his MO, but to…
Where are the protests in the streets? Where is the public outrage? Syrian Islamist HTS massacre of Alawite
So, where are the protests in the streets? Where is the public outrage? Obviously, these HTS fighters, including Chechen, Indonesian and Uyghur volunteers– consider that the Uyghur who are persecuted in China helped carry out this massacre of Alawites in Syria– have carried out these mass killings in retribution for…
Germany and France Sends Foreign Ministers to Meet Syria’s Islamist al Sharaa and HTS leaders.
The flowery words and the diplomacy might all become regrettable for France, Germany and the West. As I’ve been saying, the West should be proceeding ahead with extreme caution with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Sharaa– unless France and Germany are weighing out Sharaa and the HTS in person…
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About Sharaa of HTS in Syria…
About Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as al Golani/al Jolani), leader of the HTS in Syria, because his military forces have members who are evidently more fundamentalist Islamists than he is, there is a chance that HTS will fragment because Sharaa isn’t Islamist enough. I would not be surprised if there…