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@WeTheBrandon
Dec 9, 2024 • 32 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
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Just to be clear, the Turkish-and-US-backed leader of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a 42-year-old man (pictured) named Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, likely killed and maimed scores of US troops during the Insurgency in Iraq (2003-2006). A 🧵1/ Image
2/ Born in 1982 is Saudi Arabia, as a young boy JOLANI moved to Damascus. Interestingly, 1982 was also the year that Hafez al-Assad, the dictator of Syria and father to recently ousted Bashar al-Assad, annihilated the Sunni Arab stronghold of Hama. Image
3/The reason the Assad regime even entered Hama was because the Muslim Brotherhood, the mothership of all Jihadist terror in the region, stirred up the populace there. Rifaat Assad, brother to Hafez Assad, led 12,000 Syrian Arab Army troops and killed 10,000 civilians. Image
4/ The Muslim Brotherhood, of course, has always held that upwards of 40,000 of the 500,000 denizens of Hama had been massacred by the Assad Regime. But that was a seminal year for Jolani. Image
5/ Jolani's grandfather apparently lived in the Golan Heights (the region between Israel and Syria) that was part of Syria until the 1967 Six Day War, where Israel annihilated the Arab armies after they picked a fight with Israel. 70% of this area is today controlled by 🇮🇱 Image
6/ As a teen, Jolani got caught up in the Islamist revolution against the "Occupiers" in nearby Palestine. He became galvanized by the Second Intifada between Israel and various Palestinian terror groups, including the PLO & Hamas. Image
7/ Once George W. Bush decided to abandon the War in Afghanistan after having failed to capture Bin Laden at Tora Bora in Dec 2001, and opted to instead invade Iraq in March 2003, Jolani left home to join the insurgency.
8/ To be clear: the "Insurgency" in Iraq was Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a hodgepodge of disaffected Sunnis in the western portion of Iraq and foreign fighters, like Jolani, looking to kill the "infidels" (e.g. US troops). Image
9/ According to all reports about Jolani from the Iraq War, he was a riser--impressing his commanders and elders and proving himself repeatedly in battle. In other words, Jolani was skilled at killing AMERICANS. As a result, he rose to prominence in AQI. Image
10/ By 2013, Jolani had become such a skilled practitioner of terrorism and killing Americans (and their allies) that the Obama regime listed him as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." cnn.com/2024/12/06/mid…
11/By 2018, the Trump administration went one step further: putting out a $10 million reward for his death or capture, Jolani was such a bloody-minded terrorist. Image
12/ Now, Jolani and his terrorist group, HTS, which is explicitly Turkey-backed but also indirectly supported by Western intel services, too, finds himself in charge of post-Assad Syria since Bashar al-Assad fled.
13/ The Biden regime today is even talking about dropping the $10 million reward out for Jolani. HE. KILLED. AMERICANS.wsj.com/world/middle-e…
14/ And what about the terrorist group that Jolani leads, the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)? Image
15/ WELL, HTS began its existence as the Al Nusra Front and Jolani was its commander back then. At that time, the Syrian Civil War was underway, and Al Nusra (as well as countless other head-choppers) were receiving money, training, and funds from Obama's CIA to fight Assad. Image
16/ And, just so you understand, the Al Nusra Front is/was the official franchise of al Qaeda in Syria. middleeasteye.net/news/syrias-al…
17/ Ultimately, Jolani splintered his group away from Al Nusra and then, after some further changes and mergers with local jihadi and anti-Assad elements, HTS was born. According to Jolani, HTS is focused only on local Syrian matters. cnn.com/2024/12/06/mid…
18/ But how can that be true, given the universalist nature of Islamist organizations and the aforementioned personal political history of Jolani himself. A man who fancies himself as a fighter for the oppressed Sunni Arab everywhere? Image
19/ Jolani's assurances that his new regime in Syria will only "go local" with its concerns and respect the rights of all of Syria's minorities rings hollow. It's reminiscent of Stalin's "Socialism in One Country" or Mao's "Agrarian Marxism." It's a distinction w/o a difference.
20/ Jolani is bathed in blood. Specifically, the blood of US troops. He and his group were chosen for their ferocity to be the tip of Turkey's Islamist spear into Syria. The US intel services helping him also wanted Jolani for his ferocity. But that ferocity will not end here.
21/ Oh, and look the Jihadists in Syria, issued a letter recently PRAISING Hamas and their savage terrorist attacks on Israel on 10/7/23. H/T @Ofer_binshtok
@Ofer_binshtok 22/ Not to worry @joshrogin (whose work on China's threat is stellar, btw, but he misses the mark on Syria BIGLY IMHO) says the minorities, such as the ancient Christian sects there, are fine b/c Jolani says they'll be fine.
@Ofer_binshtok @joshrogin 23/ But the Christians, Alawites, Druze, and Kurds are all in danger with this massive, well-funded (thanks to Turkey & the West) bloodthirsty Jolani taking over.
@Ofer_binshtok @joshrogin 24/ If there was nothing to fear then why are the Kurds trying to get Israel to link the Druze portion of Syria in the southwest with the Kurdish portion (and US held areas) of Eastern Syria? Wouldn't they be welcoming Jolani and his jihadis?
@Ofer_binshtok @joshrogin 25/ And if Syria's conquest by Jolani and HTS is so awe-inspiring then why are we being tasked with having US forces remain in Syria indefinitely to support this Freedom Corridor? Even the name is...I thought Jolani was bringing "freedom"???
@Ofer_binshtok @joshrogin 26/ Mark my words. A man, like Jolani, and an al Qaeda offshoot CAN NEVER be our friends or even temporary allies. They are in a HOLY WAR against us. We are Satan to them. They have us right where they want us.
@Ofer_binshtok @joshrogin 27/ Jolani looks like a Jihadist version of Castro. And that is precisely what he will turn Syria into. We will all rue the day that the Western intelligence services, along with Turkey, decided to empower such bandits rather than kill them. Image
28/ POST-SCRIPT: RUH-ROH, GUYS...
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