A FOUNDING member of al-Qaeda who flipped to spy for UK intelligence services has spoken out about his radicalisation and revealed the inner workings of the Islamic State, in a bid to prevent other young people falling into the same trap.
The former militant known as “Aimen Dean” has opened up to the BBC in separate radio interviews about his extraordinary past.
He used his knowledge of the terrorist organisation to blow the lid on IS, saying “they are 100 times bigger than anywhere al-Qaeda was” in terms of firepower and financial resources, with a sense of “elitist isolationism” to allow recruits to indulge psychopathic tendencies.
Listen to the full interview with former al-Qaeda member turned MI6 and MI5 spy Aimen Dean: http://t.co/b2YCP9vt2W pic.twitter.com/w6A3hym8P8
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“There are many people in this world that have that small psychopathic tendency at the back of their mind but it’s guilt and (their) conscience that basically stops them from hurting other people,” he told The Report.
“However if you tell them that ‘you will be able to behead, to kill, to lash, to burn villages, to do whatever you like while serving a cause, and you will be rewarded for it by god in the aftermath’ it does wonders in terms of liberating the inner psychopath. And therefore they don’t see themselves as part of the world, they see themselves as part of a new world, a purer world.”
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