The new rulers of Syria are unlikely to be moderate as they adhered to an extremist ideology before they tried to present a different self-image, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for counter terrorism chief Dr. Sebastian Gorka told Al Arabiya News on Wednesday.“(…) there has never been a modern Jihadi leader who suddenly became a moderate after decapitating Christians and Jews…or burning Jordanian fighter pilots alive in cages, none of these leaders said ‘Oh, no. I love Jews and Christians’ the next day...Never happened in history…The idea that a Jihadi leader who was a part of ISIS slightly trims his beard and says ‘I’m a good guy now’ hasn’t happened in the last 100 years,” he said during an interview with Tom Burges Watson on GNT.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Syria’s decades-long President Bashar al-Assad was toppled by the armed opposition led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) under the command of Ahmed al-Sharaa,