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'Soft-Spoken' Jolani Makes 'Time Top 100' List As Sectarian Massacres Continue In Syria
Via The Cradle
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, previously known as the Al-Qaeda chief Abu Mohammad al-Julani, was selected as one of Time magazine's yearly list of the 100 'most influential' people.
Former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, who played a role in and advocated for Washington's regime change policies in the country, put forward Sharaa for the Time 100 list. "Last December, after years of building a powerful armed faction – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), classified internationally as a terrorist group – Ahmad al-Sharaa and his rebel alliance toppled Bashar Assad's brutal government in Syria," the write-up reads.
"Once aligned with Al-Qaeda and then ISIS, the soft-spoken Sharaa later fought both groups aggressively to ensure his fighters answered to him. More recently, he assembled alliances with other Syrian rebels, often at gunpoint, and secured ...
Former UK Ambassador: How The West Destroyed Syria
Authored by Peter Ford & Rick Sterling
Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including being UK Ambassador to Bahrain (1999-2003) and then Syria (2003-2006). Following that, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency. He was interviewed by Rick Stering on Jan 6, 2025.
RS: Why do you think the Syrian military and government collapsed so rapidly?
Peter Ford: Everybody was surprised but with hindsight, we shouldn't have been. Over more than a decade, the Syrian army had been hollowed out by the extremely dire economic situation in Syria, mainly caused by western sanctions. Syria only had a few hours of electricity a day, no money to buy weapons and no ability to use the international banking system to buy anything whatsoever. It's no surprise that the Army was run down. With hindsight, you might say the surprise is that the Syrian government and Army...