As you may know, we had Abu Salman Belarus (AKA Abu Academic) on the podcast some months ago. He is the leader of Malhama Tactical, a jihadist mercenary group in Syria. Abu Salman claims to have been a former Russian special forces soldier, however this claim is now said to be a complete lie. The person saying it's false though runs an insane pro-Kremlin blog with pictures of cats and tanks, but the information in it is quite interesting either way. We had a look through the article and confronted Abu Salman about the alleged lies...