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A riveting Isis story, told in a New York Times podcast, falls apart
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By: Mark Mazzetti, Ian Austen, Graham Bowley and Malachy Browne
A Canadian s gruesome account as an Islamic State executioner in Syria, which was the subject of the Caliphate podcast by The New York Times, was fabricated, officials say. A Times review found no corroboration of his claim to have committed atrocities.
He described the killings in lurid detail how he shot one man in the head and stabbed another in the heart before hanging the corpse on a cross.
He spoke at length about joining the religious police of the Islamic State in Syria, and being trucked to a terrorist training session on attacking the West, including North America, his homeland.