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BONUS EPISODE 08: The Private Military Contractors Training Jihadists
Published 7 years, 6 months ago
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In this bonus episode I speak to the spokesman of Malhama Tactical, a private military contracting group teaching jihadist forces in Syria how to fight. The spokesman, "Abu Academic", was once a soldier in the VDV--the Russian Army's Airborne Division. He converted to Islam and left to travel to Syria. Abu Academic is currently still in Syria so excuse the bad connection...More info on Malhama here, called "The Blackwater of Jihad": https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/10/the-world-first-jihadi-private-military-contractor-syria-russia-malhama-tactical/popularfront.co