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🗓️ 22 April 2025
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0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with Bill Rajo, a senior fellow foundation for the Defense of Democracy, |
0:08.1 | my colleague and co-host, and we're very much pleased to be able to speak to Ahmed Shahrawi, |
0:13.4 | who has wow stories. And we leave Al-Shara, the, maybe that's his name, the president of Syria, and we go to, at the |
0:24.1 | middle of the month of April, announced the Jordanian General Intelligence Directorate, |
0:30.7 | those are the guys with the guns, a sharp end of the stick, that they had, quote, |
0:34.4 | four plans aimed at targeting national security, |
0:38.2 | sowing chaos, and sabotage within Jordan. |
0:41.2 | And the perpetrators, according to the Jordanian officials, |
0:46.2 | was the Muslim brothers. |
0:48.2 | Ahmed, the Muslim brothers, Iqwan, were driven out of Egypt |
0:52.6 | and went into exile, I thought, the leadership did in Ankara. |
0:57.9 | But Jordan has long been plagued by a large Muslim brother population in any event. |
1:04.8 | So the allegation here is that the Muslim brothers were either going to replace or do away with in some fashion the king |
1:12.6 | and make Jordan, which is prominently an ally of the United States and Israel, make Jordan a Islamist state, I suppose. |
1:22.8 | Is there evidence that supports the allegation by the general, by the Jordanian officials? |
1:29.4 | So the allegation was that they intended to use rockets for domestic use, so against Jordan itself. |
1:38.3 | About plans in regards to a coup, I don't think I've seen any confirmed allegations in regards to that. |
1:45.1 | But this, this, |
1:49.3 | this, this, this, this, this, has been, has been going on for, for, for, for the past five years. |
1:54.5 | And, uh, so the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the intelligence director at full, uh, plot that involved, uh, a rocket, a rocket, uh, cell, uh, cell that wanted to use drones, um, a cell for recruitment, as,, a cell that wanted to use drones, a cell for recruitment, and a cell that |
2:02.7 | wanted to transport arms and explosives inside Jordan. |
2:06.6 | So it was a multifaceted plot, one that intended to cause chaos in the country, and create |
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