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Sara Harmouch

Sara Harmouch

Oct 19, 2026

19:10
Is he telling us anything from what you're seeing on Hammami's social media?
19:17
Well, what's interesting about that, Jay, is those images of Zawahiri, of Balaoui, showed up in posts on accounts linked to Hammami nine hours post the attack, which is interesting.
19:32
So it's either that he had scheduled them to post at a later time which could show us premeditation that he did plan and all of those or someone had posted it but like on his behalf but like also the timing is pretty vague from all the different reporting And there's also another post that was a photo of Zawahiri that also was not pinned to a specific date.
19:57
So it is really interesting the timing of the imagery, but also the facts are that Oman did not let him fly because of extremist views and that he had been radicalized in 2017.
20:10
So what he had been... what he had posted afterwards doesn't matter as much as the fact that despite Oman not letting him fly in their own country and the extremist view and the radicalizations that he did in 2017, he still got on the flight somehow.
20:26
And what's also interesting to see is There is some sort of agreement from what I know between Israel and Dubai that they wouldn't let pilots from non-normalized countries to fly the planes.
20:43
Oman is not on the list of those normalized lists.

23 MINS LATER

44:11
And also we forget that Iran, much like Pakistan, was absolutely pivotal to allowing al-Qaeda to survive the war on terror because al-Qaeda leaders, including Saif al-Adl, found sanctuary in Iran, much like Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri had found sanctuary in Pakistan.

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