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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Is ISIS Back? Or Did It Never Leave?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Though their physical caliphate has been gone for more than five years, the terrorist organization ISIS has survived—through propaganda, in chatrooms, and as an inspiration and cheerleader for actions like the New Years’ Eve attack in New Orleans. Guest: Colin P. Clarke, Director of Research at The Soufan Group, a nonprofit research group focusing on global security, author of “After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora.” Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On New Year's Day, it did not take long for Colin Clark to start getting calls about what was happening in New Orleans, that early morning attack on New Year's revelers.

0:47.8

I have a team of researchers that I work alongside of that pretty much are, I guess, what the younger generation

0:55.0

will call extremely online.

0:58.4

And they're in a lot of telegram chat rooms and all the places where the bad guys are.

1:03.6

But I pretty much get a wave of text messages as soon as something terrible happens in the world.

1:13.6

Colin is the director of research at the Sufant Group,

1:16.6

a global security research nonprofit.

1:19.6

I wanted him to go through the images with me.

1:23.6

There are so many cameras in and around Bourbon Street

1:26.6

that you can see what happened, minute by minute.

1:30.2

First, a white truck navigates around police cars, then zooms down the pavement.

1:36.5

First heard these bangs and tires wheeling and looked and saw this truck start to accelerate in a high rate speed.

1:46.0

I looked up at some point and saw that there was a vehicle coming towards us on Bourbon

1:54.4

Street, realized that he had front end damage of his vehicle, and just about as soon as I realized that is when he

2:05.6

sped up and hit everyone that I was standing with.

2:11.6

I think I got hit and my body was just thrown onto the ground.

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