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@rcallimachi

Correspondent for The New York Times, covering ISIS. NBC contributor. Previously, seven years in West Africa. Ex-AP bureau chief. Ex-refugee.

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    5 Apr 2018

    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. 12 minutes ago

    11/ He attended Seneca College where he got a diploma in computer systems technology & then worked for an IBM contractor. My colleague called the contractor in Ontario & they confirmed his employment there. He also says he worked at CompuCom, They declined to comment

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  3. 16 minutes ago

    10/ I played him a clip of the recently captured man and he exclaimed: “That’s him! That’s Abu Ridwan!” In my interview with him, Mohammed Khalifa said he went by several noms de guerre, including Abu Ridwan. He said he was born in Saudi & moved to Toronto’s Regent Park as a boy

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    9/ Abu Turaab, the second Canadian, confirmed that the narrator is from Toronto and that he went by the nom de guerre Abu Ridwan, but he didn’t know his real name. and I also saw Abu Turaab, just weeks after the suspected narrator was captured:

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  5. 23 minutes ago

    8/ The identification of the narrator began with the work of , a Toronto researcher who first noticed Mohammed Khalifa’s Canadian accent. Then a few months ago, he and interviewed another Canadian detainee in Syria, who said he knew the narrator

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  6. 30 minutes ago

    7/ You can listen and compare yourself. took the time to line up clips from Flames of War with clips of the recently captured fighter:

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    A Canadian IS foreign fighter captured by the SDF in the Hajin pocket turned out to be Abu Ridwan al-Kanadi, narrator of al-Hayat's "Flames of War" series & other English-language IS videos. I made a video with his…
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  7. 33 minutes ago

    6/And at the University of Colorado, a pair of researchers who also do work for law enforcement, Catalin Grigoras and Jeff Smith, gave the match a probability ratio. The detainee is 134x more likely to be the narrator than not:

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  8. 35 minutes ago

    5/ At the University of Montana, Professor Rob Maher compared his utterance of specific words like “Islamic State” comparing the prononciation in the ISIS video to how he sounds now using a spectrogram. He concluded the detainee is the narrator:

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  9. 1 hour ago

    4/ He reluctantly confessed to being the infamous narrator. Initially, he tried to pass himself off as just a low-level translator for ISIS’ media ministry. To make sure he wasn’t lying, called on not one - but three - audio forensic experts to analyze his voice:

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  10. 2 hours ago

    3/ That same narrator would go on to narrate the most important English-language releases by ISIS, from its daily radio show, to an audio boasting about the Paris attacks. He was captured last month and and I were the first to interview him:

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  11. 2 hours ago

    2/ Immediately, there was interest in the narrator of the video, which shows prisoners forced to dig their own graves before being shot in the head. He sounded North American. The FBI even put out a call to the public asking for help identifying him:

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  12. 2 hours ago

    1/Good morning everyone, early on the Islamic State stood out from every jihadist group that had come before in part due to the Hollywood-esque propaganda videos it put out. One of the most famous is “Flames of War,” published in late 2014, narrated by an English speaker.

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    13 hours ago

    Because this happens in Iraq & not Paris/NYC, it will be overlooked. But these incidents add up & cascade until there is a collective shrug of why didn't we see an ISIS revival on the horizon? Death by a thousand paper cuts, just read & &

    (Claim) : Yesterday, a Federal Police officer was wounded by a sniper in the Region, , …
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    21 hours ago

    “I don’t regret it.” A Canadian who narrated the Islamic State’s brutal videos in English has come out of the shadows.

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    21 hours ago

    1. Remarkable story by who sat down with Abu Ridwan, the Canadian voice behind years of ISIS English-language content. The English Voice of ISIS Comes Out of the Shadows, with comment from me.

    1. SCOOP: Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed, Canadian captured recently by the YPG, is....Abu Ridwan al-Kanadi, the narrator of ISIS's Flames of War videos.
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  16. Feb 17

    How did I miss that the 2018 “Best American Science” edition mentioned my Boot Camp buddy ’s story on men who rape?

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    Feb 16

    SDF commander Polat Can - End of ISIS does not mean end of terrorism and extremism in Syria and the region - Sleeper cells are still ‘scattered’ [active] in liberated areas - As long as there is the Turkish occupation of Afrin, the war is not over (1)

    - انتهاء داعش لا يعني انتهاء الارهاب و التطرف في سوريا و المنطقة…
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  18. Retweeted
    Feb 16

    Daesh is confined into a few hundred meters square in village of Baghuz with a number of civilians they hold hostage and refuse to release. The final operation 2 be finished in coming days following the rescue of civilians.

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    Feb 16

    The head of MI6 has warned that the Islamic State group is reorganising for more attacks despite its military defeat in Syria.

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    Feb 15

    Here's how the path to this lovely and much-appreciated award started. In 1998, when I nervously told , pictured at left, that I wanted to be in the same business as him, he generously took me with him. Same for my then-boyfriend .

    From Starbucks to Amazon to her Pulitzer Prize winning story on Harvey Weinstein, CC'96 has made a career reporting on the most vulnerable members of society.…
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    Feb 15

    Our new piece on the last operation, the last battle in Baghuz. The end. (at least for me) Dedicate to G. (Be strong bro)

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