The Adventures of Chester: The Adventures of Chester Radio: Interview with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Today's guest on Adventures Radio is Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, terrorism consultant, frequent contributor to The Counterterrorism Blog and author of the forthcoming book, My Year Inside Radical Islam.

This is a longer episode, coming in at around 51 minutes.

Daveed and I discuss the following:

0:00 How he came to be a Muslim and joined a radical Muslim group
4:59 His disillusionment with the group
11:18 His conversion to Christianity
14:39 Islam in America
18:24 Prison jihad: recruitment in US prisons
22:39 Daveed's idea for an elite unit within the prison bureau
29:00 Propaganda in the larger war: CNN, the YouTube Jihad, Osama's broadcasts
33:46 European riots: economically or ideologically driven?
37:55 In which Daveed explains Somalia, and makes a case for US military action
47:51 The "Bono of Indonesia" goes toe to toe with Islamic censors

You can listen right now by clicking right here. Or you can subscribe to my show here. You can also subscribe via iTunes here.

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UPDATE: The direct-link above works fine, but there's a technical problem with the feed. I'll update again tomorrow once it's resolved.

UPDATE2: The iTunes subscription feed seems to work just fine. I'm still working on the XML subscription feed for those who use it.

Posted by Chester on October 24, 2006 1:10 AM to The Adventures of Chester