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Studies in Conflict & Terrorism should revise its peer review process:articles in which purported interviews w/ jihadists/militants come from paying 'local journalists/sources' etc. in conflict zones to conduct them should be rejected.Fertile ground for BS https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1799508
At the minimum, the writer of the article should conduct all the interviews. Even in this regard there are opportunities to be misled by 'fixers', but it is especially problematic to outsource interview work in this way.
From that specific article, I noted that a number of quotations & claims are traced to an 'interview with A**H, JFaS [Jabhat Fatah al-Sham] commander in Deir Ez-zor, November 2016.' Well, there was no Jabhat Fatah al-Sham in Deir az-Zor at that time...
(unless of course the group was operating some underground cells there; in which case, baffling how his interview team could have reached such a person to give these various claims and statements...)
