41. The Underground ISIS Network Still Active in Mosul
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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We speak to researcher and analyst Rasha Al Aqeedi about her home city of Mosul and the grip ISIS has there. She tells us how ISIS first took over and how they're still around operating criminal networks throughout the city.
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| 0:00.0 | This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky |
| 0:07.4 | details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to analyst and researcher Russia Al-Aqidi. |
| 0:16.3 | Russia is from Mosul and she's going to be talking about how ISIS took over Mosul, how |
| 0:21.8 | they held it for so long, and how that now, even after the Iraqi army |
| 0:25.8 | has defeated ISIS as a territorial force there, how ISIS is still operating in Mosul |
| 0:31.6 | as a kind of underground criminal network. |
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| 1:00.6 | so firstly, maybe you can explain why is it Mosul fell so quickly to ISIS when it did? |
| 1:01.6 | Maybe you can go into the history of that for us well |
| 1:03.4 | there are two well-known reasons as to why Muslim fell so quickly the first being |
| 1:07.5 | the Iraqi military abandoning their posts instead of defending |
| 1:12.1 | defending the city against a convoy of 400 to 800 ISIS militants. |
| 1:16.8 | The reasons until this day are quite unclear as to why this happened, did they receive orders, was there simply no will to fight? It's still unclear |
| 1:26.1 | till this day, but the second reason, which is not so much discussed and not really |
| 1:32.1 | studied, and it's how a well-established the ISIS and not really studied. |
| 1:33.0 | And it's how a well established |
| 1:35.0 | the ISIS underground networks had been for several years |
| 1:37.0 | at that point. |
| 1:38.0 | And to understand how these networks were |
| 1:40.0 | established to begin with, we have to go back to 2003 and the beginning of the US |
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