@scaredycat102@hindujewfreind2@SyrianLib Yeah they were small but jeez they did make a large impact, these guys did 9/11 kickstarting the GWOT and the consequences are still felt today
@JoJo98105823590@scaredycat102@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 Al-Sharaa proved to be far more cunning than the mukhabarat over the years, also outsmarted the americans, russia, iran, ISIS, AQ, the assadist insurgents and most recently the SDF
@JoJo98105823590@scaredycat102@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 After abu kalsoun fell, uncovered mukhabarat files revealed they had a hard time figuring out al sharaas identity, files from 2016-8 juggled 3 identities, amongst them his real one but iirc assesed as least likely, the files were full of wrong info and shit analysis lmao
@JoJo98105823590@scaredycat102@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 As for his dad intervening ig there's always bribes and influences but I wouldnt have held my breath on him remaining locked up anyways or at least under closer watch after his release, potentially ending his militant career
@JoJo98105823590@scaredycat102@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 Yeah my bad, I didn't want to infer he was a mukhabarat creation despite my bad wording, I just find it funny how he facilitated his trip to iraq only to later overthrow him, not like sharaa wouldnt have been able to go on his own but still funny imo
The Syrian interior minister told me Kurds keep tearing down his Arabic-only signs so I asked how many signs he has & he said he just goes to the printer & get a new sign afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding signs to Kurds & then his secretary started crying
@scaredycat102@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 The fascinating thing about sharaa is that assad kinda created him, well moreso that he facilitated his trip to iraq only to come back nearly 22 years later to replace him at the palace
The mukhabarat also interrogated him but he was tricked them into thinking he was innocent
@scaredycat102@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 Idk what crack were they smoking at the Coalition cos who thought it was a good idea to lump in the ex army officers with nothing to lose with the radicals with nothing to lose
@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 I mean it's personal interests ig or in this case tribal ones. Is it that different from communist party apparatchiks later turning into far right capitalists. Ik its not the same but eh personal interests and beliefs lie inside one's ideology at the end of the day dont they?
@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 yeah my bad, with my wording I implied that overnight they became is, I know in the 2000s there were nationalist and islamist-nationalist groups like IAI and that eventually AQI(later IS) emerged as the no1
I wonder how would have things gone down if bagdad didnt stomp the sahwa
@SyrianLib@hindujewfreind2 Why did baathist officers switch so quickly to isis? I mean ik theres personal interests and what not but didnt even a bit of the baathist ideology stick to them? Even with the faith campaign you'd expect them to shun the radical salafism a tiny bit
@SyrianLib The more rank and file, lower class jihadis cared, in isis it isnt known what the likes of baghdadi thought in reality but isis talked a lot about the end of the world unlike AQ, basically end of the world prophecies were more popular amongst the non "elites"
@SyrianLib I remember reading (on wiki lmao) how there was a distinction amongst jihadis on how much they cared about end of the world prophecies, the more "elite", educated ones like bin laden and the AQ leadership didn't really pay attention to those while 1/
@QalaatAlMudiq@1967Ticha I remember my family discussing back in 2013/14 how assad barely controlled anything but damascus, the coast and some other place. In your opinion if the regime had fallen in 2013/14 what would have happened then? Ik what ifs are a waste of time but im curious