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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes
 
Hour One
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 1, Block A: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor  & FDD, in re: 
Unconfirmed: The suspected deputy of al Qaeda was killed Feb. 26 in Idlib province, northern Syria, in what was likely a U.S. drone strike, according to social media reports. Images surfaced of a vehicle with a large hole in its roof, apparently from a targeted strike. The target, Abu Khayr al-Masri, was involved in a number of terrorist attacks over the years, including the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The United States has been ramping up airstrikes on Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an al Qaeda front in Syria and a group that has been attracting more recruits and other rebel groups into its orbit. 
Another District to Taliban . . . and a monument to the IRGC Al Quds leader for his warfighting against the US, 2003-2011!   Mullah Abdul Samaam[?] in Kunduz
Tactic: elite-trained guerrilla warriors, can fight and prolong a firefight for a long time before rushing in and becoming suicide bombers.  City of Homs. Can wreak havoc with precision fire, Mumbai-style operations in Europe and across the West.  Al Q ran two training camps in SE Afghanistan; one was called: The largest al Q camp since the US invaded; 30 sq mi.
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 1, Block B: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor & FDD, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal senior editor  & FDD, in re:  Taliban and al Qaeda are hand in hand in Afghanistan. They do fundraising for each other.  Obama Administration claimed that al Q was defeated but that was obviously flawed from the beginning. 
Syrian military intelligence official killed in suicide assault in Homs  Hay'at Tahrir al Sham (HTS), a newly formed group that includes al Qaeda's Syrian arm, launched a complex assault on the Assad regime's security services in the city of Homs earlier today. A high-ranking military intelligence official was killed in the suicide raid.
Taliban claims it downed Afghan helicopter The Afghan Ministry of Defense claimed the helicopter made an emergency landing due to a technical issue. In the past, the Afghan military has been less than forthcoming about attacks on its aviation assets and has even attempted to cover up the loss of its helicopters.
Treasury, UN sanction 2 senior leaders in al Qaeda’s Syrian branch   The US Treasury Department and the UN have added two senior jihadists to their terror sanctions lists. Both of them were leaders in the group formerly known as Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria. Treasury's announcement provides new details about al Qaeda's operations in Syria, including the organization's history and personnel.
Iraq monument underscores Iranian commander’s role in Qods Force  A monument dedicated to an Iranian general has been erected in Iraq for the first time in the country’s modern history. The landmark commemorates Hamid Taghavi, a commander in the Qods Force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' extraterritorial branch.
Ex-Guantanamo detainee carried out suicide attack near Mosul, Iraq   A former Guantanamo detainee known as Jamal al Harith (formerly Ronald Fiddler) launched a suicide attack with a vehicle borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) south of Mosul earlier this week. He is at least the second former Guantanamo detainee to launch a suicide attack in or around Mosul on behalf of the Islamic
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 1, Block C:  Gordon G. Chang, Daily Beast & Forbes.com, in re: Wary of Trump unpredictability, China ramps up naval abilities reut.rs/2myevux
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/02/25/indonesia-suspect-paid-90-to-kill-kim-jong-nam.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl
The economy on China's side of the border with North Korea is struggling. https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2017/02/26/when-north-korea-barks-chinas-border-shudders/#3aeff4a36687
 North Korea Executes Five Senior Officials with Antiaircraft Guns   South Korea reports purge, makes fresh charges in killing of dictator’s brother Kim Jong Nam.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-executes-five-senior-officials-...
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 1, Block D: James Holmes, James Holmes, professor of strategy at the Naval War College and a former surface warfare officer; Gordon Chang, Thaddeus MCotter: in re:  Bloomberg Politics   ‪@bpolitics  China's rare public spat with Kim Jong Un shows how tough it is to stop him bloom.bg/2l1mioC
https://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-executes-five-senior-officials-with-antiaircraft-guns-1488191839?mod=trending_now_2
 
Hour Two
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 2, Block A:   David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent; John Fund, NRO, in re:  Trump. Perez. Congress.
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 2, Block B: David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent; John Fund, NRO, in re:
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 2, Block C: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:   Stand together against this bigotry’: Another Jewish cemetery is vandalized. Muslims again reach out to help.
Scores of headstones were toppled in Philadelphia less than a week after a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis was desecrated. A Muslim activist stepped up to help with restoration efforts at both sites.
By Colby Itkowitz    http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-jewish-cemetery-vandalized...
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 2, Block D: Indiana Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re: 
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/1800-year-old-Hebrew-stone-inscriptions...
 
Hour Three
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 3, Block A:   Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board & host of Opinion Journal on WSJ Video; in Santa Cruz with Devin Nunes for Steamboat Institute; in re: Tom Perez, intellectual prodigy and leader of DNC.
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 3, Block B:   Michael Ledeen, FDD, in re: the political assassination of Flynn.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelledeen/2017/02/26/the-flynn-assassination/#1aa2287c1f03
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:   Gregory Copley, StrategicStudies director; GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs; & author, UnCivilization; and Lennox Linton, politician in the United Workers' Party of Dominica [pron: doh-mee-NEE-ka], Windward Islands. West Indies. He is the current leader of the opposition; in re:    (1 of 2)
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 3, Block D:  Michael Ledeen, FDD, in re:
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:   Gregory Copley, StrategicStudies director; GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs; & author, UnCivilization; and Lennox Linton*, politician in the United Workers' Party of Dominica [pron: doh-mee-NEE-ka], Windward Islands. West Indies. He is the current leader of the opposition; in re:    (2 of 2)
* Linton was educated at the Marigot Government School, Dominica Grammar School,  and was trained as a broadcaster at the University of Texas Austin.  Linton is a former announcer and news reporter at DBS Radio; former editor of the New Chronicle; former senior producer at the Barbados-based Radio Service of the Caribbean News Agency; Host of MARPIN Television Show “What About,”  host of MARPIN Television News and Current Affairs Show “Good Morning Dominica” and Manager Observer Radio (Antigua) 2004-2006.
He is also a former President of the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce and former employee at Dominica Coconut Products and Colgate Palmolive Dominica, where he served as Corporate Communications Manager, Human Resource Director, Customer Service/Logistics Director and Supply Chain Manager.  Linton was sworn in as Leader of the Opposition in December 2014.
 
Hour Four
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 4, Block A:  David H. Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; in re:  Earth in Human Hands (1 of 2)
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 4, Block B:  David H. Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; in re:   (1 of 2)
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 4, Block C:   Tunku Varadarajan, Hoover Institution, in re:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-worst-brings-out-its-best-1488143969
Monday 27 February 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:   Pietro Shakarian**, Ohio State graduate student, in re:  Armenia vs Azerbaijan fighting
**A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Pietro Shakarian entered the PhD program in History at OSU in 2016. Prior to OSU, he earned his MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, his MLIS at Kent State University, and his BA in History at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
      With the aid of the Cleveland Public Library’s John G. White Special Collection, Pietro republished rare books of historical interest on the Caucasus in the Tsarist and Soviet eras. These included Friedrich Parrot’s Journey to Ararat (1846), Baron August von Haxthausen’s Transcaucasia (1854-55), and Aghavnie Yeghenian’s The Red Flag of Ararat (1932). All three books were published by the Gomidas Institute in London. In addition, Pietro has written analyses on Russia and the former Soviet region for various news publications, including The Nation and Russia Direct, and he has appeared as a guest on The John Batchelor Show and other programs.
      His main interest is 19th and 20th century Russian and Eurasian history, with a focus on the history of the Caucasus region, particularly Armenia and Georgia.   https://history.osu.edu/people/shakarian.3
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