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October 24, 2006

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.

Comments are open!

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 at October 24, 2006 1:10 AM

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Comments

I'll critique myself again on this one:

-the sound's a bit better, despite a couple of bits of strange mic feedback on my end. I'm going to blame VOIP again, as that seems the likeliest explanation.

-Should have kept it around 45 minutes, but I think the content is interesting enough that this is of little concern.

-Man, do I need to work on my articulation! I definitely stumbled a bit in some of my questions, but that's because they weren't scripted and I was just reacting to Daveed's thoughts.

Feel free to critique here as well, or offer your thoughts on the content!

Posted by: Chester at October 24, 2006 8:12 PM

I just listened to it. It was great. Maybe you both went a little far afield from the begining topic in the last third of the broadcast, but really I enjoyed the whole thing. In particular, this is something that I can't get or hear anywhere else. Please, keep it up.
thanks

Posted by: ElamBend at October 28, 2006 9:19 PM