October 29, 2020 | Generation Jihad

Al Qaeda’s Media Chief Killed in Taliban Country

Episode 31
Thomas Joscelyn

Bill Roggio

Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD's Long War Journal

October 29, 2020 Generation Jihad

Al Qaeda’s Media Chief Killed in Taliban Country

Episode 31

Thomas Joscelyn

Bill Roggio

Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD's Long War Journal

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Episode 31

Hosts Tom Joscelyn and Bill Roggio discuss the demise of Husam Abd-al-Ra’uf, al Qaeda’s media chief. Afghan forces hunted him down in a Taliban-controlled village nearly eight months after the U.S. State Department trumpeted the Taliban’s supposed counterterrorism assurances.

Afghan security personnel stand guard near the site of a car bomb in the eastern province of Ghazni. (Getty Images)

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Afghanistan Al Qaeda Jihadism Military and Political Power The Long War U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy