How ISIS Got Its Leader | FRONTLINE
October 29, 2014
84,483
269
35
0.36%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Frontline Episodes Around October 29, 2014
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
2:21Now PlayingHow ISIS Got Its Leader | FRONTLINE
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelSubscribe on YouTube
What's known about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, or ISIS? How did he become an important figure in the group? And who engineered his rise to power? FRONTLINE's Martin Smith talks to Richard Barrett, a counterterrorism expert with the Soufan Group.
Get the full story. Watch the "The Rise of ISIS" Tuesday, 10/28 on PBS and online
FRONTLINE is streaming more than 170 films online, for free here
Funding for FRONTLINE's YouTube channel is provided by the Knight Foundation. FRONTLINE is made possible by PBS and CPB. Major support is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Park Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation and Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation.
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.