Business Insider: The Toyota Hilux is strangely popular with terrorists -- here's why
US officials have recently asked Toyota to figure out why its vehicles are showing up in so many ISIS videos, according to ABC News.
Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the US, told ABC that in recent years, as ISIS has risen to prominence in Iraq and Syria, the terror group has acquired hundreds of new Toyota pickup trucks. “This is a question we’ve been asking our neighbours,” Faily told ABC. “How could these brand new trucks… these four wheel drives, hundreds of them — where are they coming from?”
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.