CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
3/20/25
(right at 8 months ago
go figure.)
Just really gonna try and extract from the article
only information about him personally
(Abu Mohammad al-Julani)
and let people make up their own minds.
Theres other good information in this article.
I really tried
to just stick to the stuff about
al-Julani.
A lot of what is said in here
(Remember this is 8 months ago, of course
but a lot of what is said
is what I have been saying all along as well.
I look like an analyst for
the Center for Strategic and International studies
to you?
This is an interview with Nicolas Pelham
who interviewed (Abu Mohammad al-Julani)
"
"Nicolas Pelham: It's certainly something that many of the people that I spoke to felt. I suppose this is a man who's just been through so many different transformations and so many different personas, so many different nom de guerre, so many different dress styles, his career changes have just been phenomenal. I spent the best part of three months in Syria trying to find out as much as I could about the man. It's really hard to find a single constant about him except for the one overriding fact that this man has done all he could to achieve power and keep it."
"He has changed hats, changed organizations so many times, and convinced many people that he is something other than the man he's turned out to be. I suppose the one fact that we know about him is that he's true to himself, and he wants power, and he intends to keep it by fair means or foul."
"Jon Alterman: I was also struck, you have a passage in your piece that Hezbollah, the first Islamist group to deploy suicide bombers, used to spend years grooming martyrs, dangling the promise of a better afterlife. Hamas is said to have taken months, and al-Sharaa is said to have prided himself in converting novices to killers in a matter of weeks.
It seems that
his persuasive power is not only of people with tremendous power and authority over him but also of people below him."
(It's the entity behind him
who has the
"persuasive power"
and you aint seen nothin yet.)
"Nicolas Pelham: Again, I find it very hard to match the reputation with the man that I met in the People's Palace in Damascus.
The man that I met
was somebody who said all the right things
but didn't look particularly comfortable saying them.
He was fidgeting, playing with his nose,
his feet moved back and forward.
He didn't like having to meet my editor and the rest of The Economist team at the time. It was quite filtered and awkward, and it was really hard to establish any personal touch with him."
"I was trying to understand,
how is this the man who sent scores,
if not hundreds, of Syrians and foreign fighters
off to become suicide bombers
and give their lives for the cause?
He didn't come across to me as somebody who had a huge amount of charisma or was somebody who I'd want to die for what he believed in. I was trying to work out, what was it that people saw in him? Yet this was somebody who really introduced suicide bombing into the Syrian uprising, the Arab Spring, in 2011.
He was the prime driver
of turning what had been
a popular uprising
into a jihadist onslaught
against the Assad regime."
"He was the one who was sending Saudis and Syrians and Iraqis to blow themselves up at the Assad regime's security installations. Again, I found it hard to match that sense of somebody who would push people to give their lives for his ideology
with somebody
who to me
didn't come across as believing
in very much
except his own right to rule."
"Nicolas Pelham: We tend to think of extremists as people who are going to be fire and brimstone preachers who are going to be screaming at us and telling us that there's only one way to salvation.
The man that I met
was somebody who was a lot more measured,
a lot more calculating,
a lot more Machiavellian."
"Jon Alterman: You suggested that it was raising the issue of Israel that seemed to make him most uncomfortable and brought your meeting to the end."
(The demon behind this
knows this will be his end.
Lake of fire etc.)
"Nicolas Pelham:
What was most astonishing about it was that it didn't really seem to be his show, although he was the one who was speaking.
(This community understands whos show it is.)
"It was much more that of the man who was sitting next to him, Shaibani, the foreign minister, and one of his closest advisers, the one who set up his media department."
(I got news for ya
it aint those two running this show
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Part 1 of 4.
CHAPTER XI
BIBLICAL DEMONOLOGY AND WORLD GOVERNMENTS
"Innumerable multitudes without the light of divine revelation, and other multitudes possessing the Bible, but uninitiated into the truths of the "mystery of lawlessness" (II Thess. 2:7), cannot get beyond "flesh and blood" (Eph.6:12). They can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governors, and presidents are, to them, the real and only characters in the great drama of life as it affects the political realm. They have no idea at all of the unseen realm of evil personalities, energizing and motivating their human agents. "The principalities ... the powers ... the world rulers of this present darkness," and "the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12, R.S.V.) are, so far as they are concerned, mere theological nonentities with which they do not reckon. However, in the realm of human government the unseen personalities of the evil supernatural sphere are just as real and active as their visible human agents..."
"It was he that called time on the interview, pretty much pulled Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani) up and Sharaa (al-Julani) apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I have to go," in English."
(Thinking of Israel upsets him.
Noted.)
"Nicolas Pelham: Yes. Bizarrely, it's called the People's Palace and yet it couldn't feel more removed. It's up on a hill above Damascus, and you do feel a separation from the rest of the city. I was trying to understand how this man is going to connect with the city below.
He's been out of Damascus since 2003,
so over 20 years,
and he comes back having spent his world really
within a jihadist milieu.'
(Just not any more right?
"spent his world really
within a jihadist milieu"
Makes perfect sense.)
"Jon Alterman: It's remarkable to me that his messaging has seemed so well calibrated."
(Not when you understand who is really running the show
it's not:
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Part 1 of 4.
CHAPTER XI
BIBLICAL DEMONOLOGY AND WORLD GOVERNMENTS)
"I have been struck that the messaging coming out has been the same in Arabic and English from the interim government.
It seems to be a fairly sophisticated calibration of what all the foreign interests want from Syria, expect from Syria."
"Nicolas Pelham: It feels like somebody who, in a sense, knows the lines that the world wants to hear, and possibly those his own people want to hear, but is just going through the motions.
(100% spot on:
"is just going through the motions"
Exactly what he is doing.
In the end times?
People telling you what you want to hear
is really really bad news.
It really is.
Listen to the people you don't like
what they are saying
and you will be much better off.
Cause the people telling you
what you want to hear
are emissaries of Satan, straight up.)
"There's remarkably little follow-through."
(Thats the way things work these days and it just drives me nutz.
Five minutes after an event and its forgotten about
like it might as well had not happened.)
"Although he's met a very large number of people, decision making is held within a tiny cluster of maybe five or six people. The complaints you hear again and again are: (A) that this man is overwhelmed, and his clique is overwhelmed; (B) they don't want to delegate, and they don't trust others around them.""
"In a sense, their way of running a very complex country full of multiple sects and ethnicities
is very much the Idlib model,
the model that they adopted
when they ran a small enclave
in the northwest of Syria."
"It's that same secretive, distrusting, somewhat paranoid approach to the outside world. The sense that once you've got power, you need to hang onto it at all costs and that power sharing is going to be a slippery slope to losing power altogether."
"There's a lot of nervousness about who Sharaa
(Abu Mohammad al-Julani) is."
(Not for this community there's not:
"a lot of nervousness about who Sharaa is")
"and what sort of Syria he wants to run.
There's concern
that he really hasn't been
as inclusive in his methods
of running the country
as he initially promised.'
(It's kinda what happens
when you have state sanctioned goon squads
going around killing off minorities.
Christians, Druze, Alwites.)
"In the same way that we thought he was going through the motions when we interviewed him, it feels like he goes through the motions when it comes to a national dialogue or a constitutional declaration. It's all hurried and he wants to get it out of the way, but it's not particularly sincere or genuine. When he talks about democracy, you have to extract the word. It's like extracting a tooth."
"He talks of having a legislative assembly but wants to appoint all its members. He makes a show of listening when he meets different segments of Syrian society, but ultimately, the decisions that materialize seems to be those that essentially serve his own hold on power. He's brought his government from Idlib and imposed that on Syria. He was supposed to be establishing an interim government which was more inclusive, but he stuttered on that."
(Fork tongue much?
Revelation 13:11
"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."
Says one thing and does another.
Continually.)
"Nicolas Pelham: The dilemma that faces countries in the region is very similar to the dilemma that existed under Bashar al-Assad. You've got someone in power that you don't particularly trust, whose background makes you nervous." The Jordanians and others still consider him to be a terrorist in a suit."
(That is exactly what he is,
only way worse.)
"The great fear of many Syrians and many in the region is that if Sharaa does feel beleaguered—the more precarious his rule becomes—the more he will retreat and rely on that rump base of those who want to see a Sunni supremacist state, that actually he's going to go back to those who he knows best and trust the most, which are his old jihadist core."
(He has never left them.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
"Superintelligence is on display again.
"What aljuani is saying
makes sense to normal humans
on the surface of it
what is not being thought about
is the three dimensional chess game
he is playing
six moves ahead of everyone."
He is so far ahead of the game
nobody even sees it...
except for a few.)
"The one glimmer of hope has come from the Kurds and this agreement that took place between the commander of the SDF and Ahmed al-Sharaa, (Abu Mohammad al-Julani) which on paper provides for some merger between the northeast, which has the oil fields and has the farmland and has been outside central government control for over a decade. The reservation that many have is that this is an agreement which seems to delay an actual merger."
"#18) So he strengthened his military
and got control
of the oil and gas reserves
in the northeast of the country.
AP 10/16/25
This global dictator
will pose as an angel of light,
just like his father the devil,
but will later act out of his true, evil nature.
When he comes on the scene,
people will flock to him
like flies to honey,
and they will do
anything he asks.)
"If you had to pick somebody who you would expect to rule Syria, to be a successor to Bashar al-Assad, he would be an unlikely contender.
Yet he's been very astute at finding his way, at acquiring power. He's very cunning. He had a disastrous week when his own base was running rampage through Alawite areas. It really looked as if many in the region and in his own country were going to wash their hands of him. Then within a few days, he managed to claw back credibility with a deal with the Kurds, which I don't think anyone had really seen coming and gives Syrians hope that the country could be reunited under his rule."
(Guy has more lives than a cat
and people cant figure out
what the power behind him is?
And
"more lives than a cat"
Kinda sounds familiar don't it?
Did I mention they work in tandem?
Saturday, July 12, 2025
"They work in Tandem"
Monday, April 28, 2025
(Which references:
False prophet:
"a mouth to utter proud words"
v 5,
Antichrist:
"It had two horns
like a lamb,
but it spoke
like a dragon.
v11.
"They work in tandem")
No comments:
Post a Comment