The Hunt: Significance of the timing in release of ISIS leader’s video

While the world was distracted this week by the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities that disrupted the global economy, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a video.

In this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national correspondent J.J. Green, Bruce Alexander, president of Security One solutions says that Baghdadi’s release of the video at that time was not a coincidence.

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J.J. Green

JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.

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