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Starting in 2023, a British nongovernment organization, which specializes in conflict resolution, invited me to help them bring this guy out of the terrorist world and into regular politics. I was leery at first, imagining an orange jumpsuit with a knife to my throat. After talking to several people who had gone in, and one who had met him, I decided to take the chance. The first time I met him, this guy's name, is known to Gare, was Abdul Qadr Jolani, but his actual name is Ahmed Sharah, which he only revealed to the world after he captured Damascus in the Blitzkrieg of December two thousand twenty four, about five months ago. First time I met him, I sat down next to him, and he said, me neither. He never apologized, never apologized for the terrorist attacks in Iraq or in Syria, although there were many fewer in Syria. Never apologized. But he also said, now I am governing an opposition held area of Northwest Syria, and I am learning that the tactics and the principles that I was following in Iraq do not apply when you actually have to govern 4,000,000 people. So that was in March 2023, just over two years ago. We went back a second time in September.