CTEC Director and Middlebury Institute professor Jason Blazakis quoted in The Atlantic

CTEC Director and Middlebury Institute professor Jason Blazakis was quoted in The Atlantic on the future of the so-called Islamic State group. He spoke about the situation that the new leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, faces in light of his predecessor being killed by US Special Operations Forces.


“A man with a $5 million reward on his head who was part of al-Qaeda in Iraq and may have even met Baghdadi as a prisoner of U.S. forces in Iraq. He is a religious scholar with operational experience—somebody who has showed that he can stay alive for a long time.”


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