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A video of Ahmad al-Sharaa resurfaced, exhibiting him praising 9/11.
In a PBS interview, he expressed happiness over the 9/11 assaults.
Trump met al-Sharaa, praising his potential to steer Syria successfully.
Lower than per week after Donald Trump scripted historical past by rubbing shoulders with former Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist, now Syrian President, Ahmad al-Sharaa, an outdated video of the latter has surfaced on social media the place he’s seen expressing happiness over the 9/11 terror assault through which practically 3,000 individuals, principally People, had died.
A clip from his extraordinarily uncommon 2021 interview to American public broadcaster PBS has been shared broadly on social media. His comment expressing happiness over one of many deadliest terror assaults in human historical past, have been criticized as extraordinarily distasteful and in whole disregard and disrespect for the harmless individuals killed in that assault and the emotions of these they left behind.
HAPPY TO SEE INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE IN 9/11 ATTACK
Talking about 9/11 on PBS’ information documentary present ‘Frontline’ in its June 1, 2021 episode titled ‘The Jihadist’, Ahmad al-Sharaa, who again then was identified by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani, mentioned, “Anybody who lived within the Islamic or Arab world on the time of 9/11, and mentioned he wasn’t pleased about it, can be mendacity.” He mentioned this in response to a query about how he felt personally about harmless individuals being killed within the terror assault.
What did you assume and really feel on Sept. 11?
Jolani: Anybody residing within the Islamic or Arab world who tells you he wasn’t pleased is mendacity. pic.twitter.com/wfOZtjIfIs
— Diliman Abdulkader (@D_abdulkader) May 16, 2025
The clip has gone viral after US President Donald Trump met the terrorist-turned-President throughout his Center East go to final week, calling him a “younger, engaging, and hard man” with a “very sturdy” previous.
TRUMP LAVISHES PRAISE
Apart from showering compliments, President Trump additionally backed the previous terrorist and mentioned he believes that the “younger man” has plenty of promise. He has a “actual shot at doing job” in war-ravaged Syria, Mr Trump mentioned, as he introduced a reward for the brand new Syrian President and the individuals of Syria by “lifting all sanctions” which had been in place for practically 5 many years (since 1979).
President Trump has been dealing with a good bit of flak again dwelling by permitting a US, in addition to UN-designated terrorist, who had a $10 million bounty on his head until as lately as December, to hobnob with the President of america. All this was seen by geopolitical analysts as Donald Trump’s volte-face after his quite a few social media posts said that america of America has “no real interest in Syria”.
President Trump has additionally been praised, principally by the Arab world, for his resolution to carry all sanctions imposed on Syria – a transfer that may profit greater than 90 per cent Syrians presently residing in poverty. It should additionally allow larger engagement by companies offering assist, whereas additionally encouraging overseas funding and selling commerce within the West Asian nation.
JOURNEY FROM GLOBAL TERRORIST AL-JAWLANI TO SYRIAN PRESIDENT AL-SHARAA
Over the past twenty years al-Jawlani, now al-Sharaa held key positions in world terror organisations like Al Qaeda and ISIS. In response to the United Nations Safety Council’s ‘ISIS and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee’, in July 2013, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani was declared a world terrorist.
Thought of one of many ‘most wished’ terrorists globally, al-Jawlani used to coordinate instantly with former Al Qaeda chief Aiman al-Zawahiri and later with former ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (who additionally glided by the title Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali Al-Badri Al-Samarrai).
In 2011, the 12 months of the rebellion in Syria in opposition to the Russia and Iran-backed Assad regime, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi instructed Al-Jawlani to determine a entrance for the Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria by creating an area presence.
In 2012, Al-Jawlani based the Al-Nusrah Entrance (also referred to as Jabhat al-Nusrah), formally often called Jabhat Fatah al-Sham – a UN-designated terrorist group which formally grew to become Al Qaeda’s offshoot in Syria. By now, the rebellion in Syria, which started in 2011 with peaceable protests, had become a revolution, with mass protests in opposition to the Ba’athist dictatorship of then President Bashar al-Assad.
In 2017, the Jabhat Fatah al-Sham rebranded itself because the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS. Its principal goal was to overthrow the Assad regime led by Bashar al-Assad and set up an Islamic Caliphate.
Through the years, the revolution in Syria become an armed battle, earlier than escalating right into a full-blown civil conflict, slowly gaining floor throughout the nation. In November 2024, in a sudden and big offensive, spearheaded by Al-Jawlani’s HTS, the Assad regime quickly misplaced main floor, together with its stronghold cities.
On December 8, 2024, Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia and the Assad regime collapsed after 53 years of ruling the nation with an iron fist. Moscow couldn’t come to Bashar Assad’s rescue in Syria as a result of most of Russia’s navy was dedicated on the Ukrainian entrance. HTS chief Al-Jawlani declared victory, and was appointed interim President of Syria in January. He then formally assumed his present title Ahmad al-Sharaa.