Welcome back. Were talking about the evolution of al qaeda since 9 11 and were looking specifically at the conundrum that theyve created wit for the u. S. In syr. One, if the u. S. Intention is to support the syrian uprising how can it be translated away from a victory for al qaeda . The position has changed since 2011 in syria because of the rising of opposition groups. When Ayman Al Zawahiri has to plead for the situation, that is not the sign of a unified organization. I discount these guys being unlike core al qaeda. Bin laden would not have had to plead. A good twothirds of the liberated territory is now controlled by extremists and the United States is simply not interested in supporting them or furthering their goals or allowing them to take ore damascus. So although the congress has pressed president obama to arm the rebels, we havent seen anything serious on that scale. And i think that likely, the u. S. Will do what it did in the case of the algerian civil war which is just k
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Poet, human rights lawyer and activist Arnon Nampha was convicted of royal defamation for calling for monarchy reform in a public rally in October 2020.