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Reading the extensive interview (published in three episodes by this newspaper) that my colleague Ghassan Charbel conducted with Yasser Abed Rabbo, the former Secretary-General of the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), is the sort of exercise that could make a child’s head turn gray.
In 2011 and 2012, a wave of popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East shook the region’s autocratic regimes, prompting euphoric reactions in the West about an “Arab Spring” and a supposed new age of democracy. While the overthrow of authoritarian regimes can give democracy a chance to bloom, it has also created opportunities for a wide spectrum of Islamist parties to advance their undemocratic agendas.
You count per by having a very difficult discussion with our friends, and especially our friends in saudi arabia, to be honest. a lot of the narrative, a lot of the ideology, coming from there. and i hope the prince will be back to at least take charge of the the counterterrorism efforts and do the magic did he before in countering the spread of this narrative. >> do you think there is any validity to thinking, we spent a lot of time thinking about al qaeda and isis and then they take credit for these things. it's not clear what the operational relationship is between these guys in london and ...
See what the australian police are going to find out about the motivation about why he did that. but the flag he had with him is basically a black flag that has the slogan there's no good but good mohamed is his prophet. that's the original flag of al qaeda under osama bin laden. >> it is. >> now with the nustra front underneath it it indicates it's al qaeda affiliated organization in syria. the isis flag is a little bit different. it's black. has the same terminology but has that circle at the bottom, and it's a little bit different than al qaeda flag. it indicates the same narrative. both in...
Tool when there's always somebody standing in the wings. >> well, but the importance of bin laden can't be underestimated. he was the founder, he was the leader, he was the symbol. bin laden is dead, they're trying to kill bin ladenism, but they have also got to end al qaeda. now al qaeda operates in many ways as a franchise operation and a franchise organization. so there's still plenty of work to be done. so in order to get that entire organization, yes, they got the top of the organization, but just as when we killed zarqawi in iraq, there was still much more work to be done, when we caught...