Kash’s Corner: Conviction of Highest Level ISIS Member in American History; Families of Murdered Hostages Get Justice
Kash's Corner
Kash Patel
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kash and Jan discuss the recent conviction of ISIS member El Shafee Elsheikh for his involvement in the hostage-taking and killings of four American citizens: aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller and journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
As senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security Council, Kash played a key role in efforts to extradite El Shafee Elsheikh and fellow ISIS member Alexanda Kotey to the United States. Along the way, Kash developed a close relationship with the families of the victims, some of whom he met with again recently.
“It’s always tough. It’s always emotional because you have to remember, they’re here to watch the trial of one of the individuals who beheaded, tortured, abducted, and raped their children,” Kash says.
In this episode, Kash offers background on how these extraditions and trials work, pays tribute to the families, and shares what it was like behind the scenes of the raid that led to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi’s death.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome back to Cash's Corner. |
| 0:15.0 | Cash, today I want to cover something that perhaps a little bit difficult. |
| 0:19.8 | There's this trial going on in Alexandria, |
| 0:22.7 | the highest profile ISIS terrorist ever to be tried |
| 0:27.8 | in America, from what I understand, El-Shikh. |
| 0:30.9 | And you were actually involved, pretty deeply involved, |
| 0:33.6 | in his extradition to the US. |
| 0:37.2 | And frankly, this thing isn't getting a lot of media coverage at all. |
| 0:40.3 | There's British press all over it, but not a lot in the U.S. media. |
| 0:45.1 | Yeah, I mean, I'm glad and thankful that we can use our platform, Yon, to cover this trial. |
| 0:50.5 | And just not just this trial, there's so much more to this trial. |
| 0:53.4 | ISIS terrorism,hdaddy national |
| 0:55.2 | security policy other terrorists that we killed and captured in relation to this it's a it's not an |
| 1:01.6 | easy topic to talk about because it involves terrorism it involves deaths of american citizens pretty |
| 1:08.8 | abusive and harsh conditions that they were subjected to and ultimately killed. |
| 1:14.6 | And the least we can do is a tribute to the families of the victims in this case. |
| 1:19.6 | No, absolutely. And so actually, you were involved in the extradition of two of, they were actually |
| 1:24.9 | two of four of the members that in the UK, bizarrely, they call these four terrorists, the Beatles because they have British accents. |
| 1:33.3 | But one of them was killed in a drone strike. |
| 1:37.3 | Two were extradited while you were head of counterterrorism. |
| 1:41.3 | So you're talking about these British nationals who are British citizens who are |
| 1:45.5 | fighting on behalf of ISIS in Syria and the regions around there. And one of the guys' names |
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