The former Canadian ISIS fighter at the centre of the New York Times podcast Caliphate has told CBC News that he was questioned by the RCMP on Thursday and has taken a lie detector test in the wake of the release of last week's episodes. Chapter 6, released yesterday to New York Times subscribers, focuses on the fact-checking process employed by the New York Times to verify elements of Huzaifa's story. Huizafa's initial interview with the New York Times was recorded in November 2016, before law enforcement had contacted him. Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times correspondent behind the 'Caliphate' podcast, discusses her reporting and tells CBC's Power & Politics that she thinks Abu Huzaifa thinks he has "slipped the net." He said that Callimachi told him that he was giving her a "gift" with this story.

Source: CBC News May 18, 2018 23:07 UTC