Monday 21 March 2016 / Hour 1, Block A:  Bill Roggio, FDD and LongWarJournal, and Tom Joscelyn, FDD and LongWarJournal, in re:  Ahmed Salama Mabruk, a veteran Egyptian jihadist, is now a key figure in Al Nusrah Front. Mabruk's dossier stretches back to the early 1980s, when he was first imprisoned following the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. He reportedly oversaw Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda networks in the 1990s, before being captured in a CIA-led manhunt. He was released from an Egyptian prison following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. / On Mar. 17, Abu Muhammad al Julani, the emir of Al Nusrah Front, issued a statement commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Syrian uprisings. Julani argued that the jihadists are inseparable from the Syrian people. Several years into the war, there are pockets of resistance to Al Nusrah, but the West has no strategy for harnessing this discontent and rolling back Al Nurah's influence within the insurgency. “We are from the peoplehttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/1539bc90203bcd8dof al Sham and the people of al Sham are us.”  Islamic State is a top-down structure; al Nusrah/al Q has a bottom-up revolutionary jihadism.  Jaish al-___, The Army of Conquest, was succeeding in conquering Idlib and pushing south into the heart od the Assad regime’s operations; these forced Putin to intervene.