(CBC) The New York Times now admits a key storyline of its award-winning podcast Caliphate, which featured the experience of a Canadian man who claimed to have fought for ISIS, appears to have been made up by the criminally accused hoaxer.
Caliphate, released in 2018, featured the story of Shehroze Chaudhry, a Burlington, Ont., man who claimed to have travelled to Syria and joined ISIS in 2014.
Chaudhry, who said he went by the nom de guerre Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi (Abu Huzaifa the Canadian), told terrorism reporter Rukmini Callimachi that he had received combat training and that he’d seen plans for terror attacks.
He also described killing civilians in graphic detail.
