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| Syrian Leader al-Julani (aka al-Sharaa) Makes Mostly Moderate Remarks |
| 2024-12-18 |
| [IsraelTimes] Abu Muhammad al-Julani, the leader of the Islamist group that toppled Bashar al-Assad in Syria, said Monday that Syria will not be used as a launchpad for attacks against Israel and that he is committed to the 1974 agreement that established a demilitarized zone in Syrian territory as a buffer between the two countries... Speaking to foreign journalists, the Islamist leader said his nascent government intends to overhaul Syria’s constitution and institutions, but said it will take time, and that the country is not yet ready for elections due to remaining disorder, some 13 years after civil war broke out amid the 2011 Arab Spring. "People have big ambitions, but today we must think realistically, because Syria has many problems, and they won't be solved with a magic wand," Julani said, according to The Wall Street Journal. "It needs patience." He also emphasized the need for unity in a country home to different ethnic minority groups and religions, while speaking to members of the country's Druze community, which makes up about 3 percent of Syria's prewar population. Jolani, who now uses his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in place of his nom de guerre, fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 US invasion. He later set up the al-Qaeda subsidiary in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front, which for a period was allied with the Islamic State terror group. However, Jolani later broke with and fought against both jihadist organizations and eventually rebranded Al-Nusra as the Islamist HTS. |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #1 "Jolani later broke with and fought against both jihadist organizations and eventually rebranded Al-Nusra as the Islamist HTS." By golly he is reformed. Praise Jesus. I think Al-Nusra was sponsored by Obama's CIA. And they rebranded to HTS when Erdogan's Turkey started their sponsorship of the group. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2024-12-18 14:16 |