The Daily Presents “Caliphate,” Chapter 4

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🗓️ 12 May 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times has introduced a documentary audio series that follows Rukmini Callimachi, who covers terrorism for The Times, on her quest to understand ISIS. Today, as a special episode of “The Daily,” we offer Chapter 4 of “Caliphate,” in which a new recruit proves his worth and gets invited to a secret meeting. 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 and the team that brought you the daily, this is Caliphate.
1:00.0	Take me to the first execution.
1:05.0	This was in June.
1:10.0	At that time, they were celebrating a lot of all the victories we've had in Iraq.
1:14.0	And we were reaching towards Mosul pretty fast.
1:18.0	After that, Ramadi then straight to Baghdad.
1:24.0	But what happened was Abu Nimr tribe was a local tribe that stood against the state.
1:32.0	So they killed a majority of the Iraq and they bought back the important ones back into Syria.
1:39.0	And we were the ones who had to carry out their execution.
1:45.0	They told us that their post dates from Iraq, to me, to me, to the worst thing in the world.
1:52.0	That's the guy who just turned away from Islam.
1:55.0	And they were being bought in to face punishment.
1:59.0	They were being bought in to for justice.
2:03.0	So the word word that means an apostate.
2:07.0	But the members of this tribe, they were Sunni Muslims.
2:11.0	They were Sunni Muslims, yes.
2:12.0	The only crime was that they had contradicted ISIS.
2:15.0	They stopped us from getting to Baghdad.
2:19.0	They stood in your way. They didn't let us take over their city, their village.
2:25.0	They wouldn't let us go any further. They stopped us.
2:27.0	They put up resistance that we didn't have to face.
2:30.0	That's what one of the guys described it as.
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