U.S. tells Syrian de-facto ruler he's no longer a terrorist.

 

U.S. officials have met with the de-facto rulers of Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham(HTS), and told its leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani that they have dropped the $10-million-dollar reward for information leading to his capture. Barbara Leaf, a top State Department official for the Middle East, said "it's a little incoherent, then, to have a bounty on the guy's head."

Until recently the HTS leader, who was a former member of al-Qaida, was considered a terrorist by the U.S. HTS was one of a number of Syrian rebel and terrorist groups that brought down the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Upon taking control of Syria, al-Jolani declared it a great victory for the Islamic nation whatever that is. Britain has declared HTS a proscribed organisation but both the Labour Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer-oid and the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, have welcomed the overthrow of Assad by Syrian rebels and designated terrorist groups.

President-elect Donald Trump, who will take control of the White House on January 20, says he's not interested in getting involved with a fight with Syria. A Trump official recently described Peter Mandelson, who has just been appointed the British Ambassador to Washington, as a "moron". The Labour Government’s National Security Adviser, Jonathan Powell, believes that it's the job of the British Ambassador to Washington to get as far up the arse of the White House as they possibly can, so Mandelson will be well qualified for that job.

In Damascus, demonstrators were seen chanting, "No to religious rule”, and "we want a democracy, not a religious state." The caretaker government in Syria have been urged to respect the rights of all Syrian's and in particular Syrian women. Abu Mohammed al-Jolani was filmed recently telling a female journalist to get her head covered, raising fears that he's intending to introduce Islamic rule.