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Rukmini Maria Callimachi

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[Wikipedia] Rukmini Maria Callimachi is a Romanian-born American journalist. She currently works for The New York Times. She had been a Pulitzer Prize finalist four times. She hosted the New York Times podcast Caliphate, which won a Peabody Award, but the Times returned the award after an investigation cast dou

Quotes by Rukmini Maria Callimachi

[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets…

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Down and

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It seems to me that a 9/11-style attack is impractical.

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Seems

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We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the…

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Allowing

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I've had countless jihadis shut me down straightaway and say, "I'm not allowed to speak to any woman who is not my…

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Able

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They're implementing what was the strategy of Al Qaeda, which was to have attacks of different levels simultaneously. ... So the idea…

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Al qaeda

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One of ISIS' biggest propaganda coups was the beheadings of the aid workers and journalists. Is [Emni], the group that is exporting…

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Aids

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People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being…

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Buying

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First, I would say, is ideology. I have never spoken to any member of these groups, not just ISIS, but also Al…

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Acceptable

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The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.

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Covering

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I'm really curious as to the actual structure of the Emni [the intelligence unit that handles foreign attacks]. And Abu Muhammad al-Adnani,…

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Als

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If we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we…

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Cases

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It's become extremely difficult to speak to active ISIS members now. I was speaking to them in 2015, and the last one…

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Active

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You have to keep in mind that there's a number of logistical hurdles that they have to jump through in Europe in…

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April

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