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Guest: Rob Ashlar Recorded: September 12, 2026 We continue our series on the pivotal Iraqi insurgency with researcher Rob Ashlar. In part 5, we cover the events of the summer of 2006: the assassination of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) founder/emir Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which the Bush Admin promised would a

Part 2 in our series with Rob Ashlar on the early Iraqi insurgency that gave birth to Islamic State and its many affiliates across Africa and Eurasia. This episode, we look at the year 2005, when the insurgency radicalized and exploded under Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq. Guest: Rob Ashlar Recorded: Ju