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A groundbreaking detail buried deep in the lawsuit filed by former Saudi intelligence chief against the crown prince MBS in US courts:

MBS *encouraged* Vladmir Putin's military intervention in Syria in September 2015, which enraged then CIA chief John Brennan.
Truly amazing, those meetings happened at least two months before Russia's September 2015 intervention in Syria. At the time the US acted surprised by Moscow's decision to deploy forces to Syria, while Riyadh was supposedly helping the Syrian opposition:

Another crazy detail is that MBS was convinced that Aljabri was responsible for the CIA conclusion that MBS was directly responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Another huge tidbit in the court filing, and absolutely damning:

Two weeks after the murder of Khashoggi, and after denying any role, the Saudis despatched a SIMILAR squad of butchers to Canada to hunt down the former Saudi chief, but luckily intercepted by Canadian authorities.
Write-up by the NYT:

“Former Saudi Official Accuses the Crown Prince of Trying to Kill Him” nytimes.com/2020/08/06/wor…
In 2015, the former Saudi foreign minister (now minister of state for foreign affairs) described the deployment as “dangerous” & travelled to Ankara to discuss it & stand with Turkey. A few months later, Turkey would down a Russian jet, before becoming a partner via Astana.
The most known proxy of Saudi Arabia in Syria at the time was Jason al-Islam, whose leader was killed three months after Russia’s intervention. Not possible that the Saudis helped with that, is it? I doubt it.

Folks, take a moment to ponder this part of the story. Despite all the mess following Khashoggi’s killing, MBS had the guts to send a team to replicate the experiment in CANADA, but that team got caught. You can’t make this stuff up. Canada not Middle East
It’s a cliche but that’s *the definition* of insanity
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One thing I’ll always be proud of is that we provided Husham with the platform & resources to publish his work almost weekly. We had big plans, ideas for longterm projects & to publish more regularly. Others only used him for quotes, and ignored his published work.
He had so much to produce, he truly deserved a whole team dedicated to his work. You can find his work here cgpolicy.org/articles/isis-…
Apart from the consistent scoop-based work @CGPdc published, the first major project he had submitted will be the first of its kind on Iraq. Watch this space.
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Details I obtained about the jihadist infighting in northwestern Syria, and about Ansar al-Islam's leadership and members (that ancient pre-ISIS Iraqi jihadi group.)

I checked with a few knowledgeable sources in Syria, about the general story I'm going to only sum up.

#thread
All sides of this infighting have made claims & counter-claims, so I won't get to those -- there is a summary of that in this earlier thread, if you want to catch up:

More interesting details about what really triggered this & how things stand today:
For chronology, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) learned that a group of al-Qaeda factions & allies were planning to form a coalition.

And here is the big one...

... the plan was for these groups to establish their control over the city of Idlib!
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Two very important statements issued by al-Qaeda and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in northern Syria. Both offer insights into the nature of the fighting between the two in the north, and a little about their "relationship".

Summary and commentary in this #thread.
Starting with the latest, just now. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra) issues a response to al-Qaeda, denying they initiated the fighting against the formal franchise of al-Qaeda known as Hurras ad-Din.

HTS's statement is issued by Abu Abdullah al-Shami.
Al-Shami says his group HTS and al-Qaeda's franchise had signed an agreement (after a period of fighting that followed the HTS breaking away from al-Qaeda) that regulated al-Qaeda franchise's work in the north. Those regulations include:
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