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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

We Shall Fight Them From The Beaches – plus jihadism expert SHIRAZ MAHER

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What sort of psychological shock with the fall of Afghanistan cause to the British establishment’s self-image? Will the country again became an incubator of terrorism? And how the hell is Dominic “Sun Lounger” Raab still in a job? Special guest SHIRAZ MAHER is the world authority on militant jihadism. He joins us to explain what the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan means.  “We have a culture from the top down where nothing is a resignable offence.” – Justin Quirk “A belief set in that the US was the head of the snake. That is when jihad goes global.” – Shiraz Maher “America is edging away. We have burnt our bridges with Europe. There is no rabbit to pull out of a hat.” – Justin Quirk https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Andrew Harrison with Marie Le Conte and Justin Quirk. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic . Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Andrew Harrison and I will be your Armand for the day.

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Today, Afghanistan, the shame and incompetence just get worse. The fact that it's Britain's worst foreign policy disaster since sewers is only part of it.

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Where does Afghan collapse leave hundreds of thousands of refugees?

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And what we still fondly think of as the Western Alliance.

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Will Afghanistan revert to being an incubator for international terrorism,

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even though preventing that was the whole point of the exercise.

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Our special guest, Shiraz Mayor, is an authority on jihad and international terrorism so we'll be talking to him

1:44.2

to find out what's really going on there. Plus if you could turn back time what would

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