
Prologue: The Mission
Caliphate
00:00
The Times Podcast - A Conversation With the Executive Editor
Abu husefa alkanadi claimed to be a member of isis and said he had committed multiple murders while in the islamic state. In september of 20 22, and a half years after this podcast was released, the canadian police arrested husefa,. whose real name is shiros chowdry, and charged him with perpetrating a hoax. That charge led the times to conduct its own investigation, which found a history of misrepresentations by chowdrey and no corroboration that he com mitted the atrocities he described in the calipate podcast. The times has concluded that the episodes of calipate that presented chaldry's claims
Transcript
Play full episode