2/2: #AFRICA: Prison breaks by jihadists in Somalia and Niger. Caleb Weiss, Bridgeway Foundation, FDD
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
| 0:10.2 | tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you |
| 0:27.1 | travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. I'm John Batser with Caleb Wise, who's in Africa for Bridgeway Foundation and the Foundation for |
| 0:40.3 | the Defense of Democracy reporting on prison breaks. |
| 0:43.0 | We began in Mogadishu, a well-known capital on East Africa of Somalia, |
| 0:47.0 | but we go now to Kutu Kale prison, which is outside Niame that is the capital of Niger of great interest |
| 0:56.7 | because most recently Niger joined with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Mali to |
| 1:02.4 | break away from ECOWAS to form their own unit and |
| 1:06.2 | defense-strate democracy as we understand it. |
| 1:09.5 | But now there's been a prison break. Caleb, I was unaware of this prison entirely. |
| 1:15.0 | What was the, who was driving the break and what were the successes? |
| 1:20.0 | So it's not in the article I posted because they hadn't claimed responsibility yet, but it was the Islamic State. |
| 1:28.8 | The Islamic State's Sahel province is the one responsible for this. |
| 1:33.4 | And the Islamic State's weekly Alnabad newsletter, last week they took responsibility for |
| 1:39.3 | it and kind of gave a play by play of what happened. |
| 1:42.6 | And according to them, it sort of played out the same way of, you know, |
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