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Former Al Qaeda leader in Syria gives first U.S. interview

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani — leader of the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — claims he poses no threat to the U.S. and the government should remove him from its list of designated terrorists. Watch excerpts of his first interview with an American journalist, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith.

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