The Threat Podcast
The Threat podcast will analyze and discuss the most pressing, yet not always so visible, threats to global security and the movements and ideologies that fuel extremism and terrorism. We’ll take listeners to the frontlines of these battles, both at home and abroad, and we’ll talk with the key players in law enforcement, intelligence, diplomacy, and academia who are working to counter these threats.
The Threat Podcast
Latest Episodes
Carlos the Jackal: Anatomy of the World's Most Famous Terrorist
Three decades ago, the CIA and French intelligence secretly collaborated to arrest and render Carlos the Jackal — the Venezuelan-born Marxist who became the world's most notorious terrorist — from his villa in Khartoum. He's been in a French pr...
The Mosul Eye: The Historian Who Spied on ISIS From Inside the Caliphate
When ISIS seized Mosul in June 2014 and declared it the capital of their caliphate, a young historian at the university decided someone had to keep the record. For four years he published to the world as "Mosul Eye" — the only independent voice...
The Fatwa That Never Ended: The Rushdie Affair and the Conspiracy Behind the Attack
In July, a New York jury convicted 28-year-old Hadi Matar of terrorism for the 2022 stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie at a literary festival — an attack prosecutors tied to material support for Hezbollah. The verdict got remarkably little cov...
The Millionaire Marxist: Inside the Fergie Chambers Case
On July 10th, Spanish police arrested Fergie Chambers — heir to the Cox Enterprises empire, self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist, and one of the most prolific funders of radical causes worldwide — while he vacationed with his family in Ibiza. The U...
Al-Qaeda's Comeback: How a Terror State Is Rising in West Africa
Most people think Al-Qaeda died with the 9/11 era. It didn't — it's arriving exactly where it always intended to go. In Mali, an Al-Qaeda affiliate known as JNIM has encircled the capital, choked off its fuel supply, and now controls roughly ha...