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The Threat podcast will analyze and discuss the most pressing, yet not always so visible, threats to global security and the movements and ideologies that fuel extremism and terrorism. We’ll take listeners to the frontlines of these battles, both at home and abroad, and we’ll talk with the key players in law enforcement, intelligence, diplomacy, and academia who are working to counter these threats.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Threat podcast will analyze and discuss the most pressing, yet not always so visible, threats to global security and the movements and ideologies that fuel extremism and terrorism.
The Threat Podcast is hosted by Jay Solomon and Hagar Chemali. The show has published 18 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Was Fly Dubai Al-Qaeda’s Comeback? Inside the 9/11-Style Attack on Israel" (19 October 2026, 57 minutes), "Inside the Supply Chain: How a China-Linked Firm Infiltrated a $2 Billion Army Contract" (28 September 2026, 46 minutes), and "Carlos the Jackal: Anatomy of the World's Most Famous Terrorist" (17 September 2026, 45 minutes).
The Threat Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 18 episodes.
Booking probability for The Threat Podcast is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Threat Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Threat Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Jay Solomon and Hagar Chemali hosts The Threat Podcast, a news podcast with 18 episodes published.
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Episode #17
On September 30th, a Fly Dubai flight to Tel Aviv with 174 people aboard suddenly plunged more than 17,000 feet. In the cockpit, a 29-year-old Omani co-pilot had attacked the captain with the plane’s crash axe and tried...
Episode #15
A U.S.-registered company called ETS Solutions North America won a piece of a $2 billion Army combat vehicles contract — testing equipment for a future warfare program. The problem: it shares a founder, an owner, and...
Episode #14
Three decades ago, the CIA and French intelligence secretly collaborated to arrest and render Carlos the Jackal — the Venezuelan-born Marxist who became the world's most notorious terrorist — from his villa in Khartoum...
Episode #13
When ISIS seized Mosul in June 2014 and declared it the capital of their caliphate, a young historian at the university decided someone had to keep the record. For four years he published to the world as "Mosul Eye" —...
Episode #12
In July, a New York jury convicted 28-year-old Hadi Matar of terrorism for the 2022 stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie at a literary festival — an attack prosecutors tied to material support for Hezbollah. The verdict...
Episode #11
On July 10th, Spanish police arrested Fergie Chambers — heir to the Cox Enterprises empire, self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist, and one of the most prolific funders of radical causes worldwide — while he vacationed with...
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Most people think Al-Qaeda died with the 9/11 era. It didn't — it's arriving exactly where it always intended to go. In Mali, an Al-Qaeda affiliate known as JNIM has encircled the capital, choked off its fuel supply...
Episode #8
A trilateral framework agreement signed by the US, Lebanon, and Israel has done something that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago — and it's put Hezbollah on its back foot. For decades, the group justified its...
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A man throws a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI's CEO. Gunshots are fired at a lawmaker's house over a data center. Extremist groups with names like the Volcano Group are forming across Europe and Latin America —...
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How far is the Chinese Communist Party willing to go to silence critics overseas? In this episode of The Threat Podcast , Jay Solomon and Hagar Chemali speak with pro-democracy activist and Hong Kong Democracy Council...
Episode #5
As tensions between Washington and Havana escalate, The Threat Podcast examines whether the Cuban regime is facing its most dangerous moment in decades. Hosts Jay Solomon and Hagar Chemali sit down with investigative...
Episode #4
On April 26th, 31-year-old software engineer Cole Tomas Allen allegedly attempted to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. Despite having no known history of violence...
Episode #3
Since the U.S. war on Iran broke out in late February, a rash of terrorist attacks have struck Europe and primarily targeted Jewish communities. Western intelligence agencies believe Iran is likely behind these...
Episode #2
In this episode, we discuss with expert and journalist Hanin Ghaddar the threats posed by Hezbollah - a terrorist group, Iranian proxy, and organized crime syndicate based in Lebanon. Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann...
Episode #1
This week on The Threat, Jay and Hagar sit down with Mohsen Sazegara, an Iranian dissident who, in his earlier life, helped create Iran’s most lethal military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a top aid...
The Threat Podcast
The Threat podcast will analyze and discuss the most pressing, yet not always so visible, threats to global security and the movements and ideologies that fuel extremism and terrorism.
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Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor at Georgetown University, Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author of 'The Triple Agent: The Al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA', The Washington Post
University of Bath
Hong Kong Democracy Council
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