Michael Moynihan
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842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Michael Moynihan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Which is what Islam means.
You escaped and you were caught a second time. When you come back at that point, you must be girding yourself for something really bad.
But you were a bank card for them. You were an ATM card.
Yeah. People like Austin Tice, I mean, their presumption is that it was the Assad regime that took him in 2012. Yeah. And his family has said recently that we have it on good authority that he's still alive. Right. What do you know about that case? I mean, it's probably something that I imagine you look into because it's a similar... It is a similar case.
How is it that all the narrative has been for as long as he's been gone in the mainstream media that he was captured by Assad and that now that Assad has fallen, there's an opportunity To find him, which you presume that would be quite easy, just walk out, now I'm free, as so many of these prisoners have actually experienced this.
But what you're saying is that the same people that kidnapped and tortured you are holding him currently. No. Or it's some kind of affiliate group, though.
Yes.
You're not?
Why do you think that is? Why can't we see something that seems, you know, you spell it out pretty quickly and pretty easily.
What is the biggest sort of mistake and misconception that journalists who typically don't travel even to the region and write about this stuff, what is the mistake that they make that you see pretty consistently that drives you crazy?
Did you ever think that these people that were holding you would be in this position today in Damascus?
Do you have any sense of what happened? I mean, obviously, so many people saying Ukraine has a lot to do with it because of the Russians. Israel taking out Hezbollah commanders and Hassan Nasrallah, etc.,
They dissolved immediately. There was no fight for Damascus.
They just surrendered. And these guys who held you have an infinite will to fight. That's right.
Americans and people in general who are trying to figure out what's happening in Syria, if we were to assume that these guys, despite the name change, the Jolani's moderating rhetoric and everything, if we were just to take them as Jabhat al-Nusra, Can you explain to people what the difference between Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS was?
Because you said there's some people that would flow between these organizations.
Mm-hmm.
A theological distinction, perhaps, but do you think that if you were actually in Raqqa, in the possession of ISIS that you would have survived? No, no. So there is some difference in that sense.
And so they were like... So if they were flush with cash, you were a dead man.
And I mean this, and I apologize for asking the question, but psychologically, how do you think you came out of it?
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