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@rcallimachi

Correspondent for The New York Times covering ISIS. NBC contributor. Previously, seven years in West Africa as Correspondent & Bureau Chief for The AP.

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    Apr 5

    1. Hello everyone, I wanted to share what I learned from the more than 15,000 pages of ISIS documents that my team and I unearthed over five different trips to Iraq. We recovered the records in 11 different cities and towns. First up, how we found them.

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  2. 9 hours ago

    I don’t remember ever seeing such a strongly-worded tweet from an official account. A sign of the times we live in, where the assault on the independent press is unrelenting.

    Hypocrisy alert. wrote a dishonest essay about our best-sellers lists. He claims, “I have long known it isn’t a best-seller list, and I don’t pay attention to it.” Though he lists ”NYT…
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  3. 12 hours ago

    To all of you who have patiently waited, our podcast (Episodes 1 & 2) go live for the general public tomorrow on every app from Apple to Spotify. subscribers get a sneak-peak at Episode 3. Sign up below to be the first to listen:

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    20 hours ago

    Caliphate, a serial narrative made by The Daily that follows as she reports on ISIS, goes live tomorrow. Subscribe today!

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  5. Apr 16

    So proud to work in the same newsroom as the women who brought us the mountain of evidence that made the revolution possible, including and :

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    Apr 16

    Things we're staggered by: The courage and impact of the women who came forward. The changes we see stirring. The work of all the other winners, and the might of a free and independent press. This prize.

    Congratulations to , , , and !
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  7. Apr 16

    I have no idea how that tweet left my account. At least it didn’t say “covfefe.”

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  8. Apr 16

    I a

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    Apr 16

    “Laurels are great to wear, but never to rest upon” — Arthur Sulzberger, with the fire, in his last Pulitzer speech as publisher of the NYT

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    Apr 16

    Breaking News: The New York Times won 3 Pulitzers, sharing the public service prize with The New Yorker for coverage of Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment

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    Apr 16

    NYT wins three Pulitzer’s for coverage of Weinstein abuse, Russia/Trump ties & editorial cartooning about a Syrian refugee family.

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  12. Apr 16

    Standing room only as we wait for announcement in the newsroom. Rooting for colleagues....

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  13. Apr 16

    7. Authorities in Niger are saying they are still working to ID the man they believe is Doundoun. I’m guessing that means Doundoun (or the guy they think is Doundoun) isn’t helping. If it’s really him, this is a big deal.

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  14. Apr 16

    6. The ambush that occurred hours later happened in Tongo Tongo. The village chief was later arrested. In his phone, authorities found numbers associated with Doundoun and other terrorists from the group:

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  15. Apr 16

    5. American intelligence was tracking him and on Oct 3, a phone that Doundoun was using lit up not far from Tongo Tongo, and the US scrambled to get troops there to capture him. That was what set in motion the unfortunate sequence of events that ended with 4 US soldiers dying.

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  16. Apr 16

    Doundoun is suspected to have played a role in the kidnapping of American aid worker Jeffrey Woodke, the only US citizen to be kidnapped by either al-Qaeda or ISIS in the Sahel. In February, I interviewed two ISIS prisoners in Niger who confirmed Doundoun was holding Woodke:

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  17. Apr 16

    3. Among them was a man that matched Doundoun’s description. Doundoun is a former cattle herder from the Peul ethnic group. He has risen through the ranks of a group that once was under the al-Qaeda banner before pledging allegiance to ISIS in 2015.

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  18. Apr 16

    2. How did this happen? Nigerien officials tell us that a few weeks ago they rounded up a bunch of suspected militants in the Tillaberi region, the area of Niger that abuts the Mali border. That’s also where Tongo Tongo is located, the place where 4 Americans died.

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  19. Apr 16

    1. An important development in Niger: and I confirmed that Nigerien authorities *may* have arrested Doundoun Cheffou, the ISIS-linked militant whom US troops were chasing in Niger on the day they got ambushed and four soldiers were killed.

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    Apr 15

    We are casting a new hashtag to hail the "Revolution of Dumpers" as literally called in Mosul. This campaign started with a 2$ campaign and is doing miracles in Ancient Mosul. Follow the hashtag to see the results.

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    Apr 15

    Essonne : un homme fiché S recherché après le meurtre de son colocataire

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