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I Was Told To Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad – by Souad Mekhennet

By Tom Heggen on September 22, 2017
Posted in Memoir, Nonfiction

“I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification and would have to leave my cell phone, audio recorder, watch, and purse at my hotel in Antakya, Turkey.” These were the conditions under which Souad Mekhennet, an investigative journalist at the time for the Washington Post, met with Abu Yusak, the…

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