Pushback with Aaron Mate
Pushback with Aaron Mate
Pushback with Aaron Maté
Former hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US 'asset' in Syria
33 minutes Posted Apr 11, 2021 at 6:32 pm.
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Amid a public relations campaign to rehabilitate the Al Qaeda franchise in Syria -- which rules Idlib, Syria's last militant-controlled province – former top US diplomat James Jeffrey has called the group a US "asset." Lindsey Snell, an independent journalist who escaped captivity by Al Qaeda in Syria, responds.
Guest: Lindsey Snell, independent journalist covering the Middle East and North Africa. In 2016, she was kidnapped by the Al Qaeda group in Syria, what was then called al-Nusra, and escaped after 10 days.