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Brad Johnson it is October 27th 2019 and
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we heard the news this morning last
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night that the new Osama bin Laden
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al-baghdadi is dead again and I know
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that these JD’s they have this there
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it’s whack-a-mole with these guys you
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think you got them and they pop out
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another hole it seems to be a strategy
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of Islamic state entities al Qaeda
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whatever front name that that is
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manifest destiny Islam wants to use what
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is to constantly report their leaders as
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dead and then have them resurrected when
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it’s convenient but this time it looks a
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little better why don’t you tell us what
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you’re thinking what the analysis is on
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this what difference does it make I
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guess is the big question well I guess
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let’s get to that last first of all yes
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they do as a normal practice kind of
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staged their own deaths or reported or
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exaggerated or so on and and you have to
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look at it it’s a basic security
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strategy you know if if they think if we
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the United States for the Allies the
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West think that al-baghdadi is dead we
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stopped looking for him so they’ll
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they’ll play those things up and and
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this last time I believe it was in 2010
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he was reported to be dead and in a
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bombing or a drone attack and ended up
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escaping and apparently for the most
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part unharmed but went quiet for a
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couple years and I wasn’t seeing
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publicly for a long time and that’s
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basic security strategy so these guys do
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use that they do understand security
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they do have access to good training and
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those sorts of things so they they
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understand these concepts well now of
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course he still has to run an
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organization so eventually I think and
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it was in 2014 he came out public again
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and was doing recordings so on it could
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have been because he was wounded that he
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was quiet it could have been for
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basically security it was quiet maybe
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both but this time it’s much different
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this time they they they saw him we knew
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where he was and the Kurds of come out
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and said that this was done in
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conjunction as an intelligence program
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so I mean we all know what that means
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what they did is this was a CIA program
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which kudos for intelligence the
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president just within the last hour came
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out and did a press conference and paid
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a lot of compliment
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to the CIA for what they’ve done so the
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Kurds have said it was intelligence in
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the president said it was the CIA
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involved so we can go ahead and operate
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on that which you know that’s not a
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surprise if I may say but now that
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others have mentioned it publicly we
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can’t – so CIA run operation to gather
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the intelligence done jointly with their
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overseas partners in this case the Kurds
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so this is one of the times where these
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things work well and is one of the main
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elements of what the CIA is supposed to
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do so well I’m not a necessarily huge
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fan of the current director of the CIA
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gene Aspel credit where credit’s due
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they’ve done a good job on this they’ve
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done exactly what they were supposed to
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do they ran into ground put it together
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and then we’re able to report it back
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over real time and just to summarize
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last night around five o’clock they went
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live with the operation that’s according
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to the president’s press conference so
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he was on active communications with the
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military in this particular attack it’s
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the again the president reported this
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was Delta ants and Army Rangers which
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not a particular surprise out of that
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because if everyone recalls the sama bin
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Laden attack was or you know where they
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took him out was a seal operation so the
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military leadership they love to be the
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ones to go do this because it brings
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them accolades and credits so they fight
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over the opportunity to have these be in
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charge or to be able to run these
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attacks so they had according to the
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press reporting 50 to 70 people out
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there and eight attack helicopters and
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came in quietly approached the building
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where al Baghdadi was hiding with some
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people breached the wall blue charged
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through the wall entered immediately and
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took over the place al there were 11
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children they don’t know whose children
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they were that they were taking escorted
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out not killed or harmed and there were
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three people killed al Baghdadi was the
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last one in the building two others
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surrendered they have been captured or
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being brought in for interrogation well
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that ought to be quite interesting they
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will almost certainly have a great deal
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of information so that should be a great
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payoff right there again this is an area
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where the CIA excels and does well so I
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think we should see some good
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dividends paid by capturing those two
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al-baghdadi fled down into a tunnel that
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was a dead-end tunnel got followed right
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down in there they were right on his
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heels but he had an explosive vest on
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and ended up detonating killing his two
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wives with him that also had explosive
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vests on so they did not detonate so
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then they a lot of the delay that took
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place although within about 15 minutes
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according to the president again of the
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explosion of where al-baghdadi killed
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himself they were able to get the head
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and hands and blood samples of course
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because not much left of the torso and
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using DNA and fingerprints almost
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certainly didn’t mention it but that
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would have been done the hands normal
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stories and the head almost always
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survived at the blast of that sort so
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they would have been able to check all
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of those had confirmation very quickly
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and knew that it was indeed him the
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reporting is that al-baghdadi was crying
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and whimpering and very afraid and you
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know died a coward was what to quote the
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president which I have no doubt and by
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the way just as a side comment these
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guys that do this sort of stuff that are
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out playing the tough guy slitting
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throats and doing all these things have
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captured prisoners their innocence they
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tend to be bullies bullies are almost
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always actually cowards
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so it’s no surprise to me there are a
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lot of guys back in the old days that
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were the just tough hard as nails
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killers for mafia and for the narco
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traffickers know some those guys as they
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would get captured and so on I mean
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they’d cry like babies so it’s something
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it’s not reported by anybody very often
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but those guys that do those sorts of
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activities are almost always cowards so
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it’s no surprise to me whatsoever it
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fits the profile of what we’d expect out
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of that sort of behavior of these guys
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that liked to slit the throats of tied
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up people that they personally are
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cowards
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so I believe that just absolutely to be
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true so he was killed now what does all
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of this mean your your last your
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question there that you ended up with is
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how important is this in the scheme of
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things it’s important but kind of on a
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symbolic level now you you’re taking out
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a piece of the command structure but the
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way this works now leadership
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a footprint and everybody recognizes
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that that’s that’s the the risk that
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these guys are faced with in leadership
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and they they essentially have to try
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and withdraw more and more and more and
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more in order to stay alive because it’s
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just one of those things that
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communications and transportation and
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all of these things your security around
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you all of those things are this
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footprint that’s easily recognizable and
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you have a lot of ways to look for that
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by Stander’s see at convoy three cars go
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drive drive by heavily armed and all of
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that for transportation and the
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different places that you can stay you
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have to have good security around it so
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not just everybody’s walking in seeing
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who’s there so just by its nature has
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that footprint even if you use couriers
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that still couriers come and go they get
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recognized that movement is seen so it’s
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it’s a very high-risk career move to go
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into leadership of these terrorist
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groups once you’re being tracked and the
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resources that we have through allies
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and and technical means and humans means
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all of those things really become a
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deadly combination so these guys almost
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always end up dead once they get to that
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point it’s just a question of time until
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you catch them moving doing what
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leadership must do that’s what got
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al-baghdadi that’s how he’s done now
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they’ve reported it’s human I’ve no
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doubt whatsoever somebody on the ground
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saw all this movement recognized that
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leadership footprint reported it back
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they confirmed that it was the fit the
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profile of how al-baghdadi does his
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stuff because they all have their style
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they’re not changing everything all the
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time even though they move randomly they
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still move with a certain level of
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security and and all of those things
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that get recognized so figured it out
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ID’d him as being in the place and in
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the military this was probably a fairly
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short timeframe of from beginning to
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finish as the president said he went on
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the horn last night around 5:00 p.m. our
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Eastern Standard Time and it took place
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middle of the night for us here in the
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United States which was daytime there
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and so that was that was how he was
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captured now if you look back I mean
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that’s all the way back to Pablo Escobar
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oh that’s how he got nailed picking up
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phone and communications and was moving
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all the time had a lot of supporters of
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the local pop pop
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halation where he was hiding in medellin
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and really the only guy that’s ever done
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this very successfully was one of the
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war criminals out of the former war and
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yugoslavia lotta edge who was a lawyer
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and poet and these sorts of things and
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and he was able to just get completely
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out of it grow a big beard change his
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appearance and have nothing whatsoever
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to do with anybody and he was the most
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successful person that was able to hide
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out for 14 years before he was finally
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captured and taken to the court in the
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hague all of the rest of these guys are
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slowly getting tracked down and and
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taken out killed mostly most of these
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guys have nobody’s interested in taking
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prisoner with the tube but that they did
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capture like I said they’ll get almost
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all if not more taking out of those guys
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than they would out of having captured
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al-baghdadi and then once you have all
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Baghdadi you’ve got a real problem what
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are you gonna do with him I mean with
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all the murders and everything’s he’s
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done basically you have to you know find
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him guilty of all of that and execute
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him and that nobody likes the optics of
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all of that so they I I mean I don’t
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know this so perhaps I’m speaking out of
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term but almost certainly there would
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have been a kill order going into this
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not a capture order going into it
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although happy to take the other guys
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that were associated with him so that
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was the team that was there two fighters
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they came out hands up or captured the
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children they were taken out and then
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al-baghdadi blew himself up with the
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with the two wives down in the
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whimpering down in the cave so that
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long-term impact of that is minimal
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because already he had a number two that
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that is they’re ready to take over so
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I’m sure that that person has already
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begun the process of taking over the
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day-to-day running it’s a question of
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then where you can have impact with
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these is if it gets through our heart
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starts to get harder to fill those
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leadership positions where people start
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looking at it going now this isn’t gonna
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work I’m gonna get killed right away and
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to no end yeah okay I become a martyr
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but you know we’re not going to get
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anything done anyway so I’m not sure
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it’s the right move
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now that’s not where we’re at right now
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there has been leadership killed one way
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or another along the lines some of them
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may resurface because they weren’t
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confirmed
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they may have gone into hiding or
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getting out if that’s the case all of
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those things are to the good because
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then just disappearing into the woodwork
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and getting out of the business if you
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will great we’ll catch those guys
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probably eventually anyway maybe if they
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show their hand in any way but those
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those people then that start to hesitate
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to go into those leadership positions
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and they want to kind of stay in the
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lower down ranks that’s where you really
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start to show the victory because then
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they begin to disintegrate and splinter
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and join with other groups or do
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whatever they’re gonna do or just go
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home you do see some of that so we’re
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not there the guy who was number two is
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now stepping into the number one slot
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that’s going to continue business as
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usual wherever they’re at whatever
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they’re doing their plans for operations
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overseas murders and terrorist attacks
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those will continue essentially unabated
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but once we nailed that guy the the next
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line after that is not so clearly
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defined in Isis so once he’s taken out
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then I think what we really start to see
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the impact of having taken Baghdadi out
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and they’ve lost all their territory but
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they haven’t lost their organization so
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now what we’re kind of doing by taking
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out leadership is starting to attack
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command structure and leadership and and
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I think we will see the impact and
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another person or two taken out and
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we’ll see how they’re able to handle
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that sort of stress on the organization
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prediction would be basically that it
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begins to splinter and it will no longer
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be as cohesive and you’ll see pieces off
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around the edge kind of go off and
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either get out or go off to some other
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group it’s hard for those guys that have
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been involved in terrorism to do
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something else I mean they and that’s
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that’s what they are as killers than at
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that point so yeah it’s pretty much a
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commitment once yes you start Ganic
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terrorism yeah it’s pretty much a
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commitment I hate to ask this but I have
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to ask this I is there some way to make
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sure that the team that conducted this
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excellent and successful mission do not
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all get together and take the same
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helicopter in Afghanistan
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yeah now there at once this is all done
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they’ll going with their own ways their
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their assignment and that the Delta guys
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and the and the Ranger guys which by the
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way I’ve worked with a lot of those guys
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in the past mainly intelligence tends to
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work with the Special Forces units more
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than regular troops although both take
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place so a lot of my background is
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working with those guys those are good
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guys but the way it’s gonna work for
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them is they’re gonna come come back
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from this assignment and they’ll be
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there and and start splintering off to
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go to all sorts of other assignments
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some of them might retire because this
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is kind of a high point for them so it’s
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it’s a it’s a good time depending on
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where they are in their career to move
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on to say some other other project
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because they would have some notoriety
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and could get a good on word job and so
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yeah that’s that’s typically what’ll
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happen yeah they’re not going to stay
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together as a unit for any length of
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time they’ll very quickly move on and I
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mean that’s the nature of the beast –
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it’s not like they’re being targeted to
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have that done it’s just going to be the
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natural process so and and lastly you
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know it’s difficult I don’t understand
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that in terms of the way Islam is
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structured that there has to it’s
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essentially I mean I think the Mafia
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actually copied their hierarchical
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structure very directly from exactly how
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Islam is laid out that that when you’re
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conducting a raid or an operation which
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where you take slaves and booty that you
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have to kick up 10% to the captain who
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kicks up to the insulin and it works
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that way with this limb and so there has
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to be a caliphate so that the Caliph the
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leader ends up he’s that he is a de
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facto the the permission needed the sort
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of legal he’s the legal permission if
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you want he’s the legitimization is a
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word for these kinds of what would
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essentially are crimes and but but
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become political right so so what I’m
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wondering is how much of an impact will
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this have on what’s the Islamic state is
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just essentially a Muslim Brotherhood
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entity just like al-qaeda and you know
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50 other groups we could we could name
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it’s sort of irrelevant in a way but the
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question is why
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why would not someone just step up and
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take I mean there must be a lot of
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Muslims who think who whose ambition
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would be yeah I want to be the new
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caliph because yes a lot it offers a lot
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it’s got benefits i short of being
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killed in a few years which is gonna
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happen
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yeah it does and you touched on some
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interesting questions there I mean
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basically terrorism is based within the
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Arabic culture of the home if you will
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if you will right now of Islam and
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they’re a very there it’s a tribal
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culture it’s just that’s the basis of
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what they come from and so naturally you
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see a strong man a tendency for a strong
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man leadership it’s also reflected in
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Islam as you say so it’s reinforced
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their self reinforcing back and forth so
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they are very much oriented to want and
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operate better with a very vertical
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system with a leadership and chain of
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command going down and and that’s just
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how the whole thing is set up that of
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course just gets them killed so they’re
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pushing back trying to do more of a
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horizontal thing but it doesn’t lend
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itself to it so it’s always going to be
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one of the problems now I there are
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people that are always going to step up
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and it’s certainly something we’ve seen
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in narco trafficking for example I mean
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you make big money in that but it’s a
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dangerous business to be in they kill
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each other and the authorities will
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track them down and kill them on
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occasion as well so it’s it’s one of
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those things but we’ve never seen no
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matter how much leadership we take out
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that that disappears completely so don’t
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mean to imply that with what I’ve said
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it’s just not gonna go away you know
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like disappear but what you have seen is
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the organization’s become much more
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horizontal and that means it’s
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splintered so therefore less effective
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so I mean that is that in under under
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the circumstances what we can hope for
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is success is something along those
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lines is that Isis ISIL – whatever you
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want to call it they they will have
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their leadership get taken out
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repeatedly and so it’s it’s much harder
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and more difficult and fewer people that
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can command the whole structure will be
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able to rise to the top to do so
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so you’ll have that that breakdown then
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of the different groups that will
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splinter off and each have their own
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individual leaders
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once you get down into that say third
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layer they’re not just naturally all
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going to respect the other guy and just
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and and just automatically accept him as
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leader so you see that competition start
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to take place between them for
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leadership and therefore you have their
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own groups follow their own little
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leaders and that splintering effect
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which of course lowers their efficiency
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and capability and their worldwide
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capability and how much money that
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they’ll have as a whole all of those
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things start to get impacted negatively
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so it’s a it’s a that is a measure of a
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type of win for us is to diminish their
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capability and of course that’s what we
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want I mean you can’t it’s it’s not like
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an army where you just take out all
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their capability to to conduct war you
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can just kill them all if it’s in an
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army and kill and destroy every piece of
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equipment they have and then okay it’s
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over they’ll quit long before that but
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with this because as they splinter out
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and they’re just their little groups
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it’s it’s harder to back a lesson
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they’re less long yeah yeah probably
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less likely that tons of recruits will
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join because there isn’t one central
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organization that looks like it has a
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high probability of success oh
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absolutely and within that culture
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that’s a key element of it and everyone
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should remember that they I mean they
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truce I mean volunteers will flock to a
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successful group volunteers will not
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flock to an unsuccessful group where
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everyone gets killed that nature the
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Beast I mean why why would you go join
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that group so yeah I mean it’s
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encouraged that’s helpful
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I would encourage getting along okay
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you
