Episode 150: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Today we have a real treat for you. I sit down for a long interview with a man who did 50 years in federal prison. In 1973, Keith Gaffney Bey aka Khalif Mujahid known as Fly was arrested. He wouldn't see freedom until 2023 when he was released from federal custody. Along the way ...  Show more

Today we delve into the recent conviction and prison sentence of Anthony Cutaia of Staten Island. Cutaia is the grandson of Lucchese mobster Danny Cutaia and son of Lucchese mobster Sal Cutaia. The Cutaia's are longtime members of organized crime and all the family has followed t ...  Show more

Send us a textIn October of 2018, US-based Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was in Istanbul with his fiancee Hatice Cengiz to get a marriage license. To do so they had to visit the Saudi Consulate there in Istanbul. Inside the consulate was a team of hitmen sent by the highest po ...  Show more

Almost exactly twenty years ago, detainee 244 got transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Captured by American forces at the battle Tora Bora five months previous, Abdul Latif Nasser was shaved, hooded, shackled, diapered, and flown halfway across the world.

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Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan called Shah Sadar Din, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from home, changed her name from Fouzia Azeem, auditioned for Pakistan Idol, and eventually became “Pakistan’s first so ...  Show more

Abu Bakr’s (ra) character is best described by the words of Ali (ra), “he is the first to every good”. Abu Bakr (ra) was the ultimate trendsetter, the fastest to do the good deed. 

In Episode 10 of The Firsts, Sh. Omar Suleiman continues to talk about Abu Bakr (ra) and h ...