MS 3.12 The Insane True Stories of Non-Combat IS Members, US Policy, Prosecution & Justice
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
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🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello hello hello hello welcome to your extra morning news show my name is |
| 0:03.3 | Philip de franco and today we're going to be talking about some of the most |
| 0:05.6 | interesting stories about people joining the Islamic State or i.s because most people |
| 0:10.0 | when they think of iS members they think of bloodthirsty terrorists right people |
| 0:13.0 | that would be in the street shooting blowing things up but there are also a couple of |
| 0:16.3 | people who have traveled to join IS for nonviolent reason looking at their |
| 0:19.6 | specific cases it brings up a couple of important questions one exactly how I. S. |
| 0:23.7 | members brought back to the US are punished and the other is about the |
| 0:26.6 | complications of waging an undeclared war on a terrorist organization. |
| 0:29.7 | Politicians, lawyers, and advocates have all been arguing over these questions for a long time now and so with that said let's just jump into it. |
| 0:36.4 | So where we're going to start is with some context about how big the organization is and was. |
| 0:40.4 | And around this it is hard to get numbers on a terrorist organization that has lost nearly all of its territory, |
| 0:45.0 | but in August 2018 report from the UN said that anywhere between 20,000 to 30,000 IS members were in Iraq and Syria. |
| 0:52.0 | Now on the other hand, back in early 2015, |
| 0:53.7 | when I. |
| 0:54.2 | held a great deal of territory |
| 0:55.3 | in its so-called Caliphate, |
| 0:56.5 | there were reportedly around 22,000 foreign terrorist |
| 0:59.3 | fighters in Syria and Iraq alone. |
| 1:00.9 | And these foreign fighters came from more than a hundred countries. |
| 1:03.2 | Overall there have reportedly been somewhere between 5,000 to 6,000 Europeans who |
| 1:07.3 | traveled to Iraq and Syria to join IS while US authorities have referenced |
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