The death of al-Baghdadi
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🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode features some descriptions of violence, none of its terribly graphic, but |
| 0:11.8 | this is a heads up if you need it, we will start in a moment. |
| 0:16.6 | Jen Williams co-hosts the Vox's worldly podcast, The President, made a big announcement this |
| 0:21.1 | weekend. |
| 0:22.1 | Who died? |
| 0:23.1 | Abu Bakr, El Baghdaddi, the head of ISIS. |
| 0:26.5 | His full name is actually Ibrahim Awad, Ibrahim Al-Badri, but he goes by Abu Bakr, El |
| 0:31.2 | Baghdaddi, that's his Kunya, his war nickname basically. |
| 0:34.8 | He's the head honcho of ISIS. |
| 0:36.2 | He was the big guy in charge and he's dead. |
| 0:38.2 | Where's he from? |
| 0:40.0 | He's from Iraq. |
| 0:41.2 | He grew up in a kind of middle-class family in Iraq. |
| 0:44.8 | He was very religious growing up. |
| 0:46.5 | He actually did his master's thesis on this really obscure medieval, chronic text interpretation. |
| 0:53.5 | And then the Iraq war happened. |
| 0:55.2 | First busher, second bush. |
| 0:56.4 | Got it. |
| 0:57.4 | The US invades Iraq in 2003. |
| 1:01.4 | Iraq kind of turns into chaos. |
| 1:03.2 | You have the US basically disbands the Iraqi military, the Bathas regime. |
| 1:09.7 | They kind of all scatter. |
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