Episode 3915: RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT: From Russia to Terrorist Threats

From Russia to the U.S., from Al Qaeda to the Taliban and 

more… the stories you are about to hear, from around the 

world, could qualify for Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 

Russians - spurred on by Putin - are turning against each

other and reporting their fellow citizens for being against 

the war in Ukraine. You’ll hear about students reporting 

their teachers and a customer reporting a shop owner. But, 

when these ’scofflaws' were fined, other Russians donated 

rubles to pay for it. 

Though it was not widely publicized, newly confirmed 

Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, got 

hardened jihadis released from Guantanamo, despite  

statistics on previously released jihadis showing they 

returned to attacking Americans. 

Al Qaeda and the Taliban are getting headlines again. The 

death of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has been 

greatly exaggerated. He’s reared his ugly head in a new 

video. Meanwhile, the Taliban has just banned the original 

black, red and green Afghanistan flag and replaced it with

a white flag that says, “There is no God but Allah, and 

Muhammad is His prophet.”

You will also hear about how Amtrak has begun a 

controversial program - working with TSA to screen 

passengers using the Terrorist Watch List. And finally, 

some positive news: it’s no longer ‘glamorous' to become 

a terrorist (at least not in Jammu and Kashmir).