How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting ISIS in Syria

Published: April 4, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

On a desert-cold, moonlit night just over two years ago, Amir Taaki stepped off the Iraqi sand into a rubber dinghy floating in the Tigris River. The boat was just wide enough to fit his compact body next to the much larger American ex-Army machine gunner sitting beside him.