Subject: Editors' Picks: The Islamic State's slave trade; and sitting down with jihadists in Syria
From: "Foreign Policy" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 18:29:06 -0400 (EDT)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Thursday, October 02

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#1 
ISLAMIC STATE OF HORROR: &quot;Women and girls are brought with price tags for the buyers to choose.&quot; A new U.N. report paints a terrifying picture of life under the Islamic State: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC3Q78PoYHGUmRcnA2f33 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC3Q78PoYHGUmRciA203e>

#2
THE SEINE TO THE EUPHRATES: &quot;I am only looking up to paradise,&quot; says Abu Mariam, a French-born jihadist who left his life in France to join the Islamic State in Syria. FP sits down with the foreign fighter: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC27G8PoqMbR-0dDA4102 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC27G8PoqMbR-0c6A5309>

#3
AMERICAN CONTAGION: Ebola has come to the United States and 43.3 million uninsured Americans are the country’s greatest vulnerability when it comes to stopping the spread of the world’s scariest virus: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC27G8PoqMbR-0dFAb64d target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>: 
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC1OM8Po3yvDAm_XA571c>

#4
PROOF OF LIFE: The Nigerian government claimed that Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, was dead. But in a recent video, he is alive enough to flip off the West: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC27G8PoqMbR-0dHA1c80 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC27G8PoqMbR-0c9A947b>

#5
WORST. OLYMPICS. EVER.: Oslo has dropped out of contention for the 2022 Winter Olympics, leaving only the autocratic nations of China and Kazakhstan in the running. Why doesn’t anyone want to host the games? <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC27G8PoqMbR-0dJAc78c target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vddx.2jf8/VC27G8PoqMbR-0c-A6c9a>

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