19 May, weekly Arabic news update by Barry Webb, retired NSA Arabist, author and senior fellow at AIR

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For the entire transcript of this interview, please continue reading

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Barry Webb retired NSA Arabist and

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Arabic translator as of 25 years we are

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here with our weekly what is going on in

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the arab news and you had a particularly

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interesting thing you wanted to discuss

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why don’t you just go right ahead

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yeah there’s two news opening septic

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came out this week that just drove me up

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the wall and it shows uh you know how

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how well the jihad is doing the first

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you know they both had to do with the US

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Congress of course the first one is that

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you know the geniuses in Congress are

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discussing the possibility of bringing

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that libyan general heft are back to the

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states to try him for war crimes now

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there are the alleged justification for

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this is there there’s some kind of

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evidence that he might be a US citizen

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in like maybe yeah because he was born

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here or my baby his parents were here

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studying or something it was born here

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so they want to use that to try to bring

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him back to try for a plan for war

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crimes

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well why war crimes well he’s in the

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process of trying to take this city of

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Tripoli away from the jihadi militias

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Isis al-qaeda Ansar Surya etc you know

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and you know when you complain you’re

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trying to take a city things get pretty

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messy

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I mean look how my needs to building to

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be killed in World War two yeah within a

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few and so obviously some civilians are

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being killed there but in war in the

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Middle East is even dirtier than it ever

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was in World War two because if you

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noticed every time if the Israelis try

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to defend themselves against Hamas

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attacks yeah what does the media do well

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pretty much every time the Israel

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defend themselves the media says

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Israelis murder 15 Palestinians and then

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in two point font say in response to

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massive assault burning hundreds of

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acres of fields and teaching what Tomas

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does is they instantly stash their

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weapons in mosque and hospitals in the

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munitions etc and they’ve been known to

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round up children and force them to

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stand you know stand by missile

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launching mechanisms year at gunpoint

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yes so that when the inevitable Israeli

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strike comes they can take videos of the

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soldier being blown apart and they

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upload that from the cell phones they

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upload that to the Internet

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Elsa Zahra then broadcasted blasted our

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berlin world and its minions here in the

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states like CNN and washington post’s

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etc pick that up and you know publicize

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it and then a mushy brained individuals

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now sees may our honorable congressman

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you read The Washington Post they want

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CNN etc and OH crocodile tears oh you

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know look at the atrocities that the

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Israelis are committing you know since

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so there’s always world pressure then

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builds up two forces readies to stop

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defending themselves we see the same

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thing happening in Yemen this is why you

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know the Saudis are now getting the same

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treatment that the Israelis did for the

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same reasons because the you ho these

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are stashing other weapons and their

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heavy equipment etc in residential areas

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and near hospitals and whatnot so you

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can bet your bottom dollar that these

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Islamist terrorist militias in Tripoli

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we’re doing the same thing to maximize

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the cilium civilian casualties in order

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to gain you know world support and then

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pressure against half time to withdraw

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but it gets even worse than that because

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warmer they performed a dictator Muammar

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Qaddafi had a me nuclear program but

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when he saw what we did to his buddy

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cynical sane and our rap he immediately

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halted its nuclear program dismount it

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but he didn’t get rid of all of his

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nuclear materials and most intelligence

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sources believe that there’s still a lot

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of nuclear materials you know weapons

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great yellow cake and etc stashed around

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at various places in Libya so after

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general hunter is not only trying to

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liberate the city of Libya from the

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radical Islamist terrorist militias he’s

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trying to prevent them from getting a

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hold of these young Qaddafi’s leftover

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nuclear materials so our honourable aroo

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diked

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Congress persons that are talking about

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bringing hefter back to the states to

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try for war crimes and to shut down

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bases upon his war you know against

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tripoli are basically voting in favor of

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letting al qaeda etc get a hold of

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nuclear materials really bright ok now

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the other thing has this happened this

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morning I guess they invited Jamel

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Cochise you know former fiancee I guess

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you could say to testify before the

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Foreign Relations Committee in Congress

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you know I mean authoritarian regimes

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snuff out journalists all the time

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but this one the media just you know

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laid it on I made it on and I reported

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before our writings to to Brad’s website

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and I think even even my interviews here

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that the Democrats are trying to use the

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whole SOT affair as a tool to bludgeon

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Trump with and or even

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bring him down because he has retained

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his warm relations with the Saudis

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through all of this and and he hasn’t

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shown overwhelming affinity for this

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tariffs in sponsoring state of Qatar

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which is apparently what the Democrats

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want to see and so this whole bring

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you’re bringing this lady from

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Washington to have her testified before

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the four Democrat dominated form now

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Affairs Committee is just a political

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stunt that just again it shows that they

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have at least in my mind might view that

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Congress at least a good chunk of it is

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basically a Muslim Brotherhood occupied

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territory now I just listened to an

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interview today

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I don’t even pre-recorded but might even

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might have been live it was with Gordon

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Friedman who’s the head of a think tank

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called Stratford its Dennis Prager

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that’s it and he was saying that

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khashoggi this is it’s indisputable

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khashoggi was basically an Islamic state

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Brotherhood asset

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he was a Wahhabi jihadist he was he was

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a profound enemy of the Saudi regime and

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that this whole assassination thing was

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completely business as usual it was

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necessary actually you know in an

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interview I did with Brad Johnson he

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said similar things is that your is that

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your estimate of the situation my

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estimate is even worse that’s wrong she

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was high school best buddies with Osama

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bin Laden and they both joined the

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Muslim Brotherhood together were

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influenced by the same Muslim

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Brotherhood teachers had mentioned

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before how the Saudis had brought in all

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of these Muslim Brotherhood teachers to

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to stab their high schools witches you

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know went because of the oil money and

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so the and they throughout life you know

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they’ve retained the same goals the only

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difference is that catch Oggy was 10

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times more dangerous because Osama bin

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Laden was on

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he told us what he wanted to do and he

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showed it with you know the physical

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actions of having his minions book blow

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things up but Sergey was much more

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subtle and yeah in my view I think he

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was actually a young intelligence world

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there’s this thing called the double

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agent yet like in the Cold War if you’re

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working for both the Americans and the

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Soviets trying to play both sides and

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getting both sides to pass information

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it’s kind of a real you’re real scumbag

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you know if you’re a double agent I

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learned about that and go when I watch

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gone with the wind Rhett Butler was one

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wasn’t it yeah yeah normally was kind of

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a good guy but he was and he was selling

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he was selling weapons to both sides

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that’s what I did when they arrested

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yeah anyways continue anyway but you’re

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ok my view is not just a double agent I

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see him as a quadruple agent it’s

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working obviously he was working for the

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Muslim Brotherhood as you know he said

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one of it was actually that in fact a

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leader of the sour D branch of the

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Muslim Brotherhood okay and then he was

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obviously working for Qatar and in fact

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even the Washington Post you know we

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have a moment of weakness on their part

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you published an article that saying

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that these editorials that showed she

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was writing for the post were being

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dictated by Qatar okay so in figure he

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is working for because how are you

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intelligence and I’m also quite sure he

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is working for Turkish intelligence too

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we spent half of this time in his sample

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only half his time here in the DC area

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and that lady he was you know the

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fiancee the so-called college students

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she was a member of her man’s inner

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circle and probably a high-level

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intelligence agent herself now of course

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the Turks and the Qataris the Muslim

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Brotherhood you know they’re all on the

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same side it’s a working for all three

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I think it was also working for the deep

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state here because a deep state you know

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Obama’s leftovers have really the same

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goal as the Muslim Brotherhood and or

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the one in Turkey and that is to

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resurrect the old Ottoman Empire as the

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caliphate

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in conjunction with Muslim Brotherhood

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controlled Arab states and this is why

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the Brotherhood has tried to gain

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control of these Arab Spring movements

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throughout the region so you know so

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they saw the Saudis took him out you

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know

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but then they did it was basically their

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own territory which you know everybody

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all embassies and counselors are

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considered to be the actual soil of the

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country that is operating that embassy

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our council it you know so they

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eliminated him you know let’s move on

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but now I can see why the Turks were so

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anxious to raise a stink about it if he

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was actually one of their asset yes yeah

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and yeah yeah the one of the robbers

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floating down is that this testimony he

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was on the verge of trying to start an

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uprising Saudi Arabia to bring down the

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regime and replace it with a brotherhood

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Regina thank you very much this was a

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great update and we’ll check in again a

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few days and see if there’s if there’s

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any movement I mean as one Israeli

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ambassador to the United Nations said as

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he was leaving on his last day that when

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how did he put it now this is

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paraphrasing when when Jews kill Arabs

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it is a catastrophe and when Christians

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kill Arabs it is a tragedy and when

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Muslims and Arabs kill Arabs is the

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Weather Channel and it’s there’s a

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certain amount of truth to the fact that

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there’s a constant state of war where

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the dominant ideology is the only way to

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get to heaven is to die in a TLAs way

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right yeah yeah so but it does seem like

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things today are not quite business as

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usual and that there’s higher tensions

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bigger stakes and bigger things are in

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the works especially is it Turkey seems

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to want to reestablish to Caliphate

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Iran’s trying for the Islamic the great

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whatever this is she a crescent it does

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seem and you know there’s a sense of

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impending doom around Israel too so I

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think it’s really appreciated that that

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we keep an eye on on these on the

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minutiae of these groups and their

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actions and their resources so thanks

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again for that

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