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With the Taliban currently in control of Afghanistan and Al Qaeda operating training camps throughout the country, the answer seems obvious. Generation Jihad host Bill Roggio, an FDD senior fellow and the editor of FDD’s Long War Journal , talks with terrorism expert Thomas Joscelyn about the failures of Operation Enduring Freedom and how they cascaded into the terrorism threats we now face from Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and other jihadist groups. Bill and Tom also discuss Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza, and reports that he may be alive and at the helm of Al Qaeda, as well as Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa’s refusal to answer a question about whether he renounced his oath of allegiance to Al Qaeda.   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