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John Batchelor April 22, 2016
Al Qaeda Disdains ISIS and Praises Taliban. Three Days of the Condor for President. @billroggio @joshrogin
The Islamic State frequently accuses al Qaeda’s leaders of being “deviants” and argues that al Qaeda has fallen into a state of “nonbelief.” Zawahiri challenges Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and his men to provide proof of al Qaeda’s supposed ideological lapses. Zawahiri mentions a “martyr” known as Abu Sa’d al Hadrami, saying the Islamic State falsely accused him of being a “nonbeliever” because he accepted pledges of allegiance from members of the Free Syrian Army. Hadrami was an Al Nusrah Front commander in Raqqa, Syria who was killed by the Islamic State early on in its rivalry with Zawahiri’s loyalists.

The al Qaeda master warns all of the Islamic State’s followers that they risk being found “complicit” in the “crimes” ordered by the group’s leadership. Zawahiri demands that Baghdadi provide the names and biographies of all the men (a “minority”) who swore allegiance to Baghdadi and declared him “Caliph Ibrahim.” In particular, Zawahiri says that all “those who were members of Saddam’s Army” and even “more so those who were in Saddam’s intelligence” service should be identified. By highlighting the role of former members of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdadi’s Islamic State, Zawahiri attempts to undermine its legitimacy. He implicitly argues that former Baathists and other members of Saddam’s military and intelligence service are not fit to name a “caliph” who supposedly rules over all Muslims.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/08/zawahiri-calls-on-muslims-to-support-taliban-reject-islamic-state.php

The family’s entertainment budget consisted of renting VHS tapes from Blockbuster. In middle school, he saw “Three Days of the Condor” and decided he wanted to be a CIA agent. He reached out to the CIA recruiter in high school and was already working with the agency in college, when the attacks of 9/11 happened. After spending two years in southern Brazil on his Mormon mission, McMullin joined the CIA full time and began working overseas on counterterrorism operations.

After about a decade of service, he decided he wanted a shot at a normal life. He returned to the United States, went to business school and got a job at Goldman Sachs. He volunteered to help out with the Romney campaign part-time. Those connections eventually led to a job working for House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.).

While in Congress, McMullin’s passion was Syria. Frustrated by what he saw as America’s tragic neglect of the suffering of the Syrian people, he was doing everything he could to raise awareness of the Syrian conflict and push Congress to take action. McMullin was instrumental in bringing to Congress a Syrian defector nicknamed “Caesar,” who fled his country with more than 55,000 photographs showing evidence of mass torture and murder of more than 11,000 civilians in custody in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/08/22/the-story-behind-evan-mcmullins-run-for-president/

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