1/2: #SYRIA: THE GREAT JIHADIST IMPOSTOR, AL SHAARA. AHMAD SHARAWI, BILL ROGGIO, FDD
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. Bill Rajo, senior fellow for the foundation for the |
| 0:10.6 | Defense of Democracy. Bill keeps the Long War Journal and a major report on the Long War Journal, |
| 0:16.7 | always from Ahmed Shirawi, who joins us now to take us into an intricate world of facts and |
| 0:24.1 | opinions and prejudices and longtime feuds. This is about a man named Al-Shara. He used to be |
| 0:32.4 | known as Al-Jalani. He claims to be the president, the leader of Syria. |
| 0:38.5 | He has a backstory, and Ahmed Sharawi introduces us via Sabarin News to the backstory of the man who is now greeted by kings and counselors. |
| 0:57.4 | And it serenated as far as I can see by the whole region because he promises to bring order to the failed state of Syria. He's camped in Damascus. |
| 1:03.8 | He is converting his al-Qaeda-linked forces into the Syrian army. He's promised weapons by Ankara, by Erdogan of Turkey. He's greeted |
| 1:14.7 | at the steps from his plane by Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. As far as we know, |
| 1:22.0 | he's receiving emails from all over the world, possibly also including the United States. |
| 1:28.3 | So Ahmad, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:31.1 | What do we need to know about the backstory of Syrian interim president, Ahmed al-Shara? |
| 1:38.3 | Good evening to you, Ahmed. |
| 1:40.0 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:41.8 | So Ahmed Ashara was invited by the Iraqis last week to attend the Arab Summit in May. |
| 1:47.9 | And as a response, sovereign news, which is a pro-Iranian militia news network, decided to release these documents that were found regarding Shahra's arrest by the U.S. forces in 2005. |
| 2:05.1 | And so in these documents, it was shown that Ahmed al-Shara went by a different name, |
| 2:11.2 | by a completely different identity. |
| 2:13.9 | His name, when he was arrested, was Amjad al-Naimi, his nationality was Iraqi, and it had different |
| 2:21.2 | details that do not corroborate with the current details that we know about this guy right now. |
| 2:25.7 | So he impersonated an Iraqi from Mosul when he was arrested with a very Shia name. |
| 2:34.1 | And according to some reports, he spoke with an Iraqi dialect inside when he was arrested with a very Shia name. |
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