Canadian police arrest a man on suspicion of lying about having joined Islamic State and committed execution-style killings, years after his story featured in the award-winning New York Times podcast Caliphate.
In Caliphate, he claims to have executed two people as a member of Islamic State in Syria, but doubts were raised about his story, which contradicted what he told CBC News.
"Hoaxes can generate fear within our communities and create the illusion there is a potential threat to Canadians, while we have determined otherwise," RCMP Superintendent Christopher deGale said in a statement. Rukmini Callimachi from the New York Times tweeted that "the narrative tension of our podcast 'Caliphate' is the question of whether his account is true … we explain the conflicting strands of his story, and what we can and can't confirm".
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