Aimen Dean: an AQ insider who spied for MI6

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Discovered, rather late, that Aimen Deen has another taped interview (32 mins). Their explanation:

So… there was a choice between either the British, the Americans or the French. As far as the Americans were concerned… my defection took place around December 1998, and in August 1998, I was just lucky to escape with my life from a cruise missile attack by the Americans against the camps… So I thought basically that it would be extremely difficult to work with people who just a few months ago pressed the button, trying to kill me. So I thought, ‘forget the Americans’. As far as the French were concerned, basically, it meant that I would have to learn another language – a language I don’t like the sound of at all…not to mention that the French are rude, and aloof and arrogant…

Link:http://ournal.quilliaminternational....t-of-al-qaeda/

[davidbfpo]

In the last week Aimen Deen has given two interviews to British newspapers. This one is open to read: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...s-for-al-qaida

The second is behind a pay wall and is slightly different: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thin...n-doesnt-work/

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An interview in May 2020, available as a podcast and in a transcript. The intro states:

n this episode of Changed My Mind, Aimen Dean talks to academic Thomas Small about what triggered him to join al Qaeda and then leave the terrorist organisation. Decades on, he reflects on why it remains difficult to stop others following in his footsteps.

Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cha...maker-mi6-spy/