Introducing “Caliphate,” a New York Times Audio Series

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times presents a documentary audio series that follows Rukmini Callimachi, a foreign correspondent for The Times and a frequent voice on “The Daily,” as she reports on the Islamic State and the fall of the Iraqi city of Mosul. With the producer Andy Mills, Rukmini journeys to the heart of the conflict to grapple with the most pressing questions about ISIS and to comprehend the power and global pull of the militant group. Today, instead of our usual show, we offer the Prologue and Chapter 1 of “Caliphate.” For more information about the series, visit nytimes.com/caliphate. This episode includes disturbing language and scenes of graphic violence.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale. This is a special episode of The Daily.
0:09.5	Today, the Islamic State has attracted tens of thousands of followers from over 100 nations around the world.
0:18.0	And at their peak, controlled a total land mass larger than the United Kingdom.
0:24.0	What is that drew so many? And what is it that they're really trying to build?
0:33.0	It's Thursday, April 19th.
0:43.0	We here at The Daily have been working on a new series focused on the reporting of my colleague, Rukh Mene Kalamaki.
0:50.0	And today, we're bringing you the first two installments of that series, starting with the prologue.
1:03.0	The House ISIS prepare you to kill people. Is there anything?
1:07.0	They, we had dolls.
1:09.0	Yeah, we had dolls to practice on. We also have cutouts of ballistic gels.
1:14.0	It would feel a lot like human. And inside the ballistic gels, they'd have sacks where major organs would be.
1:21.0	And then you could just slice, practice, behead, stab, and you know, just practice.
1:27.0	It kind of felt like what a medical student would do. And you had to know how to use a knife on a human.
1:58.0	Test one, two.
2:00.0	How's this? It's okay?
2:02.0	Yeah.
2:03.0	Okay. Can I go back to the image?
2:05.0	Of course.
2:06.0	So can you describe what we're looking at?
2:10.0	Yeah.
2:16.0	It's a man standing in the desert. He's clad in black.
2:21.0	His face is covered. All you see is a slit for his eyes.
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