HEADLINE: Iraqi Intelligence Uncovers Global Islamic State Network, Highlighting African Hub's Expanding Influence GUEST NAMES: Caleb Weiss and Bill Roggio SUMMARY: The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) has made its first international bust in W
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Iraqi Intelligence Uncovers Global Islamic State Network, Highlighting African Hub's Expanding Influence
GUEST NAMES: Caleb Weiss and Bill Roggio
SUMMARY: The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) has made its first international bust in West Africa, revealing how Islamic State (ISIS) cells, particularly the wealthy ISWAP, are funding global attacks and supporting ISISoperations, including those in Iraq, amidst shifting jihadist strongholds and Western withdrawal from the Sahel. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) revealed its first international operation, dismantling an Islamic State (ISIS) cell in West Africa. This cell, linked to the powerful ISWAP, was financing attacks in Europe and supporting ISIS operations in Iraq. This highlights Africa's growing importance as a hub for the global Islamic State network, amidst a complex regional jihadist landscape.
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| 0:24.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchew with my good colleague Bill Rajio, |
| 0:29.2 | senior fellow foundation for defensive democracy. He keeps the long war journal with his |
| 0:34.8 | colleagues and filing now and again Caleb Weiss of the Bridgeway Foundation |
| 0:39.5 | and the Foundation for a Defense of Democracy is in Africa, Uganda, Africa at the moment, but we're |
| 0:47.0 | reporting on Caleb's most recent story about a complete revelation to me. That is, the Iraqi |
| 0:52.9 | security forces, the Iraqi National Intelligence Agency, |
| 0:57.6 | contributing to information necessary to understand the Islamic States power in Africa, actually |
| 1:04.9 | throughout the UMA. Caleb, welcome and a very good evening to you. Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:11.4 | The Iraqi National Intelligence Service. |
| 1:14.0 | I didn't know it existed. |
| 1:15.6 | What do we need to know about it? |
| 1:17.4 | Is it independent? |
| 1:18.5 | Does it work for Tehran, as we're given to understand everything in Baghdad, as it looks over its shoulder, |
| 1:24.5 | Tehran? |
| 1:25.6 | And what do we know about its hand reach into Africa? |
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