SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - His Majesty’s head-chopper: Syria’s MI6-backed president bows to King Charles
By Kit Klarenberg
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president of Syria. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. When Syria’s “interim” leader Ahmed al-Sharaa touched down in London on March 31, he was given a much warmer welcome than many once thought possible. As the longtime leader of Syria’s Al-Qaeda branch, the US had been offering a $10 million bounty for information on his location just 15 months prior. Yet here was Al-Sharaa, proudly posing for photo ops with King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. British intelligence had been working towards…Open