Theo Padnos
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157 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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the word of God or Jabhat al-Nusra or Hayat Tahrir Hasham at face value.
Hey, man, how you doing? What's going on?
Yeah. I miss you.
Yeah, they say, I miss you. That's kind of, that's what one says in Arabic.
I don't really miss them. But listen, these people, in a way, sometimes they were good to me. And I was grateful to them for this, especially the guys I talked to. Like, I was starving and they brought me food. But no one's apologized. They don't feel that they did anything bad.
So there's no apology, and they don't think that this was... I'm sure if I went now and I talked to Giuliani, he would go, listen, I didn't have anything to do with it. However, I apologize on behalf of our organization. We're awfully sorry, you know. Apparently he wants to requisition or have all the torturers from the regime...
who have escaped the country, he wants to, like, have them... Repatriated. Repatriated and brought to trial. But I want to have him expatriated and brought to trial.
I mean, listen, what I want is peace and security and stability for Syria.
Um... They inflict crimes that are far greater than anything they did to me against the people of Syria. One question you'll never have asked by all the journalists that are interviewing Jolani today is, what did you do with all those people that are in your prisons? Most of them were killed. Why were they killed? Because of tiny little differences in the way that they make the prayer.
Like this guy makes the prayer. He says the liturgy a slightly different way from... the way most people do it, and they kill him for that. I think he needs to be held accountable for the crimes he's committed against the people of Syria.
It's like they disappeared.
Yes, that happened. But at a certain point, I was in a prison in Aleppo with about maybe 20 officers from the Syrian Arab Army. and have been in contact with their families. And some of those people, of those 20, like four emerged alive, and the rest, they just disappeared. So perhaps they are living somewhere within the Jabhat al-Nusra control.
But one question you'll never hear the journalists ask of the people who are in charge of Syria now is, what became of your own prisoners? What did you do with them? And why did you do it? The reason they did it is because they're trying to bring Syria into harmony with God. And the Alawites interfere. They pollute. They disturb. And they are impurities.
Like, in theory, anybody. It doesn't matter the religion. It's just that... Anybody can convert to Islam, even an Alawite, even a Jew, anybody can convert to Sunni Islam. So in theory, yes, but they believe that the Alawites, for instance, are so deceptive and so their souls are so corrupt that they will say they've converted and they'll pretend to be Muslims, but really they aren't.
And if you let them into your community, they are spies and pollutants and they will betray you to the enemies of God, which are Israel and America. So they have to be exterminated because they can't be trusted. That's really their issue.
Right.
This goes to show the extent of the psychological control they have over the landscape, like the populace in general, because I did, in fact, I went to what I thought would be like a civilian-administered hospital the second time. I said to them, listen, I've been with the... you know, some extremists who came in from the eastern part of Syria, where ISIS was at the time.
And the people at the hospital knew what I was talking about. And they said, oh, sure, no problem. We'll send you back. I told them, listen, I'm an Irish journalist. They like Irishmen. And I'm from the BBC. And they said, no problem. OK, you can call up your BBC guys. We just need to get your phone. We'll find a phone for you, and you can call them up.
The guy stepped out of the room and he went up to call the people I had escaped from, namely Jabhat al-Nusra, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. And he called up those people and said, hey, the American that you're looking for is down here at the hospital. Come pick him up. What is the benefit for them?
They're exhibiting their submission to the law of God. And they say here, here's the proof of it.
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