How this Syria raid was different
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5. |
| 0:08.0 | But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period. |
| 0:14.2 | And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks. |
| 0:27.2 | This episode is brought to you by Slack. |
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| 1:05.0 | The war in Afghanistan's over, but the war on terror is not. |
| 1:09.3 | You may have noticed a few days ago when you heard that US forces had flown into Syria |
| 1:14.3 | to kill a terrorist. |
| 1:16.8 | So this is a man named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashami al-Kharashi and he was the current leader of ISIS. |
| 1:25.0 | And this is investigative journalist Asmat Khan. |
| 1:28.4 | He was known for having played a role in the slave trade that ISIS ran of Yazidi minorities. |
| 1:36.3 | He was also known to have been involved in encouraging different ISIS-separ cells to |
| 1:43.8 | stage prison attacks to release ISIS prisoners. |
| 1:47.3 | And so he was somebody that was much coveted by the Americans and someone they had been |
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