We are going to start to tell the history of this man.  Abu Mariya al-Qahtani.  This is how I know the man, in this way.  This image of his back toward the camera, looking across the land of Syria.  He was writing papers to the people to report about what happened.  He is one of four men who came to start a group named Jabhat al-Nusra.  The group was made for Syria.  They came to Syria when they saw the Free Syrian Army being formed.  The Free Syrian Army is the men who were soldiers of the army of Assad who defected.  The soldiers of Assad disappeared in the night with his family and never came back.  The soldiers of Assad who said to himself he cannot do this anymore. He took all of his family in secret and ran away from home.  He ran for his life.  This is the Free Syrian Army.  Its all of the commanders of Assad who ran away from him. 

This group named Jabhat al-nusra had four people from another country start him.  Al-Jolani himself said its four men who came to establish this army.  We know the army got very big very fast.  It was said about them that they know how to fight.  Because they were helping when the war in Iraq happened.  Ten years before.  According to Wikipedia six men started jabhat al-nusra.  The number of soldiers was six thousand they are reporting.  This means one leader has one thousand men.  This is a big number of men for one man to control.  When six men come in and establish six thousand man army in six months this tells you this man sits on a chair that is very elevated.  Its one thousand men he controls.  This is the idea of the group.  This is the six men we have in the room.  As you know one of them was this man, named Abu Mariya.  He was one of the six men.  He was writing letters to the people telling them about what happened.  He is known to be from this place named Mosul. 

From Aleppo looking toward the Euphrates river it is the river of life for this area.  You will arrive first to the biggest city in all the land named Baghdad.  Eight million live in Baghdad.  Baghdad is the center of control for all of the area.  There is one million in Mosul and two million in the adjacent city Erbil.  This is showing clearly that life is connected with the river. Where the rivers come together more people live.  Mosul is one of the greatest cities of Iraq. The eight million people control the economic forces for all of the region for one thousand kilometers in any direction before you reach a city of equal size.  The eight million control the area, thats where the economic power is.  It is the biggest one and the nearest.  You can see where the people are from the picture of the city lights on satellite.  The people live where you see the glowing lights of the cities.  This is Mosul where the commander Abu Mariya al-Qahtani is from.  His strongest connections are the three highways connecting to Erbil.  The strong highway connections south through Tikrit, Samarra, into Baghdad.  In the north the biggest cities are Mardin, one million.  Dirybakr two million.  Batman one-half million.  Sanliurfa two million.  Very big cities north of Mosul who share the river ways.  The economic power of the cites are connected because they are near each other.  There are six million people in four cities north of Mosul who are economically separated by a political border.  To continue to hold back the millions of people and the economy at the border is needing a strong security block.  To stop the life of the people from connecting.  The minute the security forces lose power the people will have pushed them.  The people will push through and the economies will be connected.  The people will come through on all of the highways.  There are roadways everywhere.  They will jump in the car and go.

Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, this is how the people see him.  He was a young man.  Now long after we see him cover his face.  He is one of the four who came from Iraq to start the Nusra front to take power from the Free Syrian Army.  He came with other men from Jordan and Palestine.  You can see on the satellite pictures of the city lights that they are very connected.  Amman and Gaza city are the biggest cities in the region near Damascus.  They would have traveled on the highway to the biggest nearest city.  They are naturally connected.  The Jordanians and Palestineans that knew the history of the war in Iraq and moved up the river into Syria.  They established the group.  Abu Mariya al-Qahtani changed his directions into the formation of a group named Ahrar al-Sharqiya. Ahrar al-Sharqiya was connected with Turkish people.  There is competing interests here of the cities in the north belonging to Turkiye and the cities in the south belonging to Iraq, Kuwait and the Arabian sea.   These are the two economic bonds, the north and the south. You must follow along the riverways and highways.

Abu Mariya al Qahtani was known to make this group named Ahrar al-Sharqiya.  The purpose of the group was to grab the men from all of the families of this area of Deir Ezzor and Hasaka.  As you know this man is from Mosul.  For him to move this way is the only way of life. This is the city connection. There is many roadways surrounding Hasaka and connect in Deir Ezzor.  His idea was to grab any families and groups from this area surrounding his home city. 

This is the Qahtani we know now.  He is now in Idlib.  We wish, inshallah, we will continue the story.  The history of the economy of Syria.  The connections with the neighbor cities.  The story of the mujahir and sheikh Abu Mariya Al Qahtani.     Allahu Akbar!

Your Loving Daughter, Catherine Alwan. March 6, 2024