Last weekend, it was reported that the US attacked and killed Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a “senior leadership facilitator” for Hurras al-Din, in an attack in Syria’s Idlib Governorate. Around that time, it was also being reported another US drone strike had happened in Idlib, and another person was killed.
CENTCOM has now identified the person killed in the second strike that weekend as Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, who has also been labeled a “senior military leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din.” The announcement includes a brief video of the drone hitting his car.
Little concrete information can actually be proven about Talay, as like so many “al-Qaeda leaders” slain in US drone strikes he was never publicly identified as such until he got killed. There are, however, reports that Talay was known, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) referring to him as Abo Jaffar al-Turkey and social media accounts referring to him separately as Jafar at-Turki or similar variations like Cetar et-Türki.
Multiple media reports do present Talay as a Turkish national, though so far Turkey has not confirmed that was the case. The SOHR report also suggests that he was a member of Hurras al-Din at one point, but also cites an unnamed source saying he left the group and joint Jaish al-Ahrar, another Islamist group in Idlib.
Since both Hurras al-Din and Jaish al-Ahrar announced their dissolution in late January, it isn’t apparent what, if any, organization Talay was actually a current member of. This strike marks the fourth US drone strike against a Hurras al-Din “leader” since President Trump came to power, and moreover, the fourth such strike since Hurras al-Din dissolved.
Sunni Islamist factions were overwhelmingly centered in Idlib Governorate until December, when the also al-Qaeda-linked Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized power in a Turkish-backed offensive. With HTS now in power, the other Islamist groups have been dissolving in quick succession, likely seeing little left to accomplish.
HTS got its start as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and was not directly associated with Hurras al-Din, which was considered the al-Qaeda in Syria affiliate. There were however close ideological similarities, and membership in those groups has a tendency to overlap, as exemplified by last week’s killing of Bayraqdar, who was the brother of HTS figure Samer Bayraqdar, who is presently the Syrian Religious Endowments Minister.
The US stance toward the HTS government is still uncertain, as the continued strikes in Idlib so far are focusing entirely on Hurras al-Din. The statements from US officials barely indicate recognition of Syria as a country at all since Assad’s ouster, but merely as a region they are actively operating in.
Feels like those who can spill secrets are eliminated.
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Maybe The Donald needs a brain transplant?!
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The peace president at work in Syria, Somalia, Gaza and the West Bank by shipping more deadly weapons and money to Israel and weapons to Taiwan
But so far it works, his approval ratings are going up because the general public likes the idea of him dismantling a lot of Klaus Schwab WEF idiot policies the democrats adhered to.
I do not belong to any religion any more but Trump fits a lot of what is described as the "Anti-Christ". Of course anti-Christs existed before Jesus Christ was even born. People or movements will do some light work to woo the people but in essence work for the dark forces.
With Trump it is interesting that some see him as a god while others see him as the devil. Perfect Anti-Christ material.
Some of us just see him as the maskless empire front.
Al-Qaeda is part of the CIA drug running network and database which Al-Qaeda means in Aribic.
July 29, 2021 Drone Whistleblower Gets 45 Months in Prison for Revealing Ongoing US War Crimes
On July 27, a federal district court judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst Daniel Hale to 45 months in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes.
https://truthout.org/articles/drone-whistleblower-gets-45-months-in-prison-for-revealing-ongoing-us-war-crimes/
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I can’t keep up with the frenemies list:
From: Jake Sullivan
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2012-02-12 04:01
Subject: SPOT REPORT 02/12/II
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05789138 Date:
10/30/2015
RELEASE IN FULL
From: Sullivan, Jacob] <SullivanJJ@state.gov>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:01 PM
To:
Subject: Fw:SPOTREPORT02/12/11(SBU)
See last item – AQ is on our side in Syria.
Otherwise, things have basically turned out as expected.
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These assassinations are just more evidence that HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa (formerly al-Jolani), the new appointed president of Syria, has been the CIA’s chosen survivor of a targeted assassination program. That is because he has been a CIA operative ever since he was imprisoned in Iraq during the insurgency 20 years ago. There have been many of these small targeted mysterious air strikes by the US in Idlib over the years to take out specific rebel leaders.
These new targeted assassinations, the 4th in one month, are nothing new. Any leader that knows that al-Jolani is a CIA agent is being targeted.
For example, just last August the US killed Abu-Abd al-Rahman al-Makki, who was described as a “senior leader” of Hurras al-Din. (see link)… https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/25/us-says-it-killed-senior-member-of-hurras-al-din-in-syria/
It is not hard to figure this out. Just ask yourself, why wasn't al-Jolani targeted all of these years? Would the US really invest $ billions to bring to power in Syria someone that they were not sure of?
Ahmad al-Sharaa had been groomed and selected all of these years by the CIA, with all of his competition eliminated with these air strikes in Idlib. Al-Qaeda has been totally co-opted by the CIA for many years. Any local leader of competing groups to HTS in Idlib that might have gotten suspicious to this CIA selection process were themselves eliminated, all in the same manner.
So when Jake Sullivan told Hillary Clinton in an email back in 2013, "al-Qaeda is on our side", this is what he was talking about.