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Barry web it is May the 4th and this is
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hopefully the first of the series of
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Arabic news summary reports you were a
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translator and Arabist for the NSA for
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25 years is that right that is correct
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and so I’m guessing that you have on
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behalf of the public been continuing
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your work of translating various
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relevant and important news from the
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Arab media since then so let’s have at
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it what have you got
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ok this most of this comes from last
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weekend the 28th and 29th of April but
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these events are still going on so still
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relevant we’ll start with the Qatar
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based al-jazeera TV channel on the 28th
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of April reported the view that the
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Israelis and the United Arab Emirates
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UAE
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and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia kia KSA
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are pushing the trump administration
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into a war with iran and on the libyan
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issue al jazeera gave a full on the same
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day gave a full 1/2 hour air time to a
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spokesperson for the UN recognized
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syrettes government and tripoli the
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spokespersons main point was at the
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Siraj government would never negotiate
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with general heft are for your listeners
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who aren’t aware of this particular
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situation in libya the general heft are
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who controls benghazi in most of East
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Libya has recently launched an attack
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against the capital city of Tripoli in
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the west of Libya which is run by this
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Siraj government which is UN recognized
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also on the same day from the same
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channel al-jazeera urban Graham said
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that he would defend Tripoli from
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attacked at all cost and now that’s
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important as it will come up later and
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another channel this is MBC Egypt
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popular Egyptian talk-show hosts on
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Druid Abe interviewed
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in general of Mudd Masari who is the
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spokesperson for the heft aria group he
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reported that turkey is conveying and no
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sir a terrorist into Libya the loser
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organization is an al-qaeda branch ace
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in Syria so he’s the Turks are her
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conveying these terrorists into Tripoli
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to aid this rights government Elmas mari
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also claimed that mercenaries from chad
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and other countries have joined the
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tripoli militia groups on another story
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I’m Rudy reported that Turkey is also
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playing games in the Sudan as well you
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know again for your listeners who may
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not know there’s an Arab Spring type
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situation going on here in Sudan right
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now also on the 20th of April l20
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reported that in Khartoum there were
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protests in front of the Egyptian
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embassy protesting Egyptian in
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interference on the next day the 29th of
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April the Saturday on
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Dubey based a larger be a TV channel
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reported that there were protests in
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front of an Islamist office in Khartoum
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in apparently response for the turkey
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Shah for the protests against the
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Egyptians the Arab Spring 2.0 also broke
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out of Tunisia which was the birthplace
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of the first Arab Spring in 2011 after
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government forces killed several farmers
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the crowd shouted as shabbiha read as
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Clinton the song which means that people
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want to bring down the regime which was
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the slogan used across the Arab world
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during the first Arab Spring Egypt State
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newspaper al Haram quoted President
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assisi telling the Italian leader in a
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recent meeting that Egypt supports
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general heft are in Libya and will never
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negotiate with terrorism a reference to
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the Siraj government in Tripoli
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gotta change pages here back to the MBC
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NBC channel NBC Egypt the popular
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Egyptian talk-show hosts
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armored Adeeb reported that this is on
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the 20th of April reported that during
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the battle for Triple E channel Hefner’s
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army captured some Turkey’s soldiers
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also on the 29th of April our via TV
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reported that one of the militia groups
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from Tripoli went to Iran seeking a
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weapons deal on the 30th of April an
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extremist run media outlet elfric lon
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released a picture of Isis leader about
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Maddy which was then shown on most of
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the world’s TV outlets and that’s
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significant because he’s been he’s been
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absent for five years no one has seen
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him now
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last night I picked up some new items
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and this came from the al-arabiya
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channel
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saudi-owned channel and a program called
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snapped amount which means industry of
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death and there reported that this is
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this program other male deals with
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terrorism and related issues each week
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and they report that Iranian there’s an
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Iranian alliance between Iranian
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intelligence and local criminals in
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Europe the rainiest are using this
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alliance to assassinate opponents of the
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Iranian regime and of course is no
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outrage at all by the West you know oh
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three may L RB also reported that Tunis
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has extended this emergency status for
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the month of May
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that’s because of the Arab Spring
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uprisings there
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Ellis’s hero reports the yo on the 3rd
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of May that one of the talking heads on
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there was a guest one of the talk shows
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called behind the news claimed that
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France is supplying weapons to heft our
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we’d reported earlier that
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French troops had been noted fighting on
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behalf of the heft art group probably s
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advisors
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so now we have another report showing
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that they are providing equipment then
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on the 4th of May L Arabiya reported
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that Turkey is using the port at Misrata
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which is a town just east of Tripoli in
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order to supply Tripoli with weapons and
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etc so that’s the the news items that’s
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great thanks I’d like to dig into a
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couple of those little deeper if it’s at
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all possible I’ve certainly seen a lot
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of like sitreps
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go by on what’s happening in Sudan and
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they don’t really add really enlighten
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me a lot I mean is it are we talking
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about this sort of already Arab Muslim
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North Sudan are we talking about the the
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newly-minted
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animus South Sudan and if it’s North
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Sudan it was all it when you say it’s an
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Arab Spring type situation you means
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that more classically religious
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authentic Muslims are trying to uproot
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the totalitarian dictatorship of North
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Sudan is that what’s going on there
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yeah first of all answer your first
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question it is Sudan proper which is
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North Sudan I suppose
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South Sudan is basically a Christian you
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know obser and that’s why they became
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independent Sudan proper is primarily
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Islamic now most of the Arab Spring
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events even in our spring the first Arab
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Spring in 2011 many of them started as
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legitimate protests against tyranny
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against the dictators but then once the
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protests get started within the Muslim
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Brotherhood and once it get started in
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it it looks like they’re having you know
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getting headway then the brother head
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moves in and takes over because they’re
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basically the only organized group
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besides the military now in Sudan
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what we have is yes you
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huge uprising oh my god the shots I see
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on TV you know the streets are just
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filled with people but the fact that
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we’ve had two separate protests while I
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protest against the Egyptian embassy and
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then the following day in protest
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against the Turkish embassy so it looks
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like there are two factions within the
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people that are protesting and both of
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these groups have protested the previous
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regime headed by L Bashir who was a real
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a real jerk off a caricature in a sacri
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a Cohan film about so anyway L Bashir is
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gone in several and through several of
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us henchmans and the remaining we
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business leaders are trying to
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reestablish order now my feeling is and
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you’re right on this I think that when
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all is said and done that the Muslim
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Brotherhood will take over that movement
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the revolution if you will yeah they’re
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clearly desperate to establish a
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physical Caliphate somewhere now that
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they’ve lost it in Syria and ovine right
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yes Betty but here’s the other angle
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because I mentioned also in these news
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reports that Turkey is playing games in
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the Sudan also you’ve got Turkey sending
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weapons and containing troops into
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Tripoli aiding the islamist tripoli
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government you’ve also got an Arab
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Spring movement a huge one taking place
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in Algeria just massive massive crowds
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in every city you can and they’re the
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protesters are claiming that they want a
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democratic system with no military
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control and no religious control but
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once again I think when my little said
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and done that is it is the Brotherhood
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Islamist that won’t be taking over there
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– and I wouldn’t be surprised to find
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Turkey involved there – because all of
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these territories were once part of the
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old Ottoman Empire and early guy has
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this ambition of you know really
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creating this Ottoman Empire sure looks
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like it yep
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that happens say an apology if the
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Islamists take over and although these
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countries that are currently experience
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an Arab Spring type situation or civil
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war like we have in Libya Scalia bad
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news for Egypt is they’re caught in the
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middle and Scobie bad news for Israel
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because turkey is already occupied parts
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of northern Syria and ever-increasing
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parts of Iraq yeah
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turkey is Turkey is definitely looking
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for that manifest destiny and they
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appear to be they appear to be a Muslim
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brother at entry anyway well yeah like I
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think I’m the last interview we had I
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mentioned that the ruling party in
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Turkey the AKP is a clone of the
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Brotherhood and they in fact yeah it
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seems to me that that the brother had
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moved from Egypt to Turkey yes mostly
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yeah a lot of how many of the Egyptian
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Muslim Brotherhood personnel had moved
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to Turkey and they they claimed that
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there’s something like 2,000 media
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personnel Egyptian media a Muslim
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Brotherhood personnel in Turkey and
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Turkey has been broadcasting radio and
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TV shows 24/7 into Egypt trying to do a
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stir up the population you know one of
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this might be it may or may not be worth
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researching for you but one of our
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translators speculated that the reason
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that there are suddenly all this these
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charges these sexual abuse charges
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against the Muslim Brotherhood’s grant
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founders grandson which is tariq
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ramadhan it’s because he made a public
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statement that he was opposed to air21
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and he was opposed to her to one sort of
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being the leader of the Brotherhood is
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at work and suddenly all these charges
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appeared where he was guilty he was a
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different Muslim women were accusing him
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of sexual impropriety and one of our
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translators speculated that this is
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because he he didn’t he wasn’t going
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along with which would make sense since
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his grandfather was Hassan al-banna who
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was the Egyptian founder that probably
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felt the belong
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what do you think good yeah I had not
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heard that he had said that he didn’t
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want an arrow and to take control of the
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movement but that would make sense and
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that herb ago and we’ll certainly
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consider tariq ramadhan as as a threat
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being the grandson of hassan al-banna
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so yeah i could see the turks playing
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games there to try to take him out in
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some way i want to mention one more
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thing about this brand designed for the
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you know the for the turks to resurrect
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the ottoman empire as the kata fate the
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spirits are guided of the current
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spiritual guide of the muslim
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brotherhood disavowing who is based on
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in a cloud tire and works with elves and
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sarah he’s got a weekly program there
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he’s basically said that that urban wine
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is the hope of all muslims and even
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called him used the term you know i’m
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here what money which means literally
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prince of the faithful but it’s a term
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that they always used to use the Middle
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Ages for the Kamath so it’s basically in
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other words heard that we the spiritual
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head of the Muslim Brotherhood
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nationally internationally has basically
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blessed ordered went as the coming Calif
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al-qaradawi mean Elkhart now he has
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blessed early where the coming chaos yes
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the coming killer
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wow that’s significant news I am I am I
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am I’m shocked I didn’t know that and
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please do I do now thank you very much
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Barry web for this weekly update from
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the arab news it is the kind of thing
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that we you know west so desperately
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need
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