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How Osama Bin Laden Built a Terror Network & 9/11 | Aimen Dean | FO550 Raj Shamani
📅 18 August 2026 at 09:09 pm · Hosted by Figuring Out
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Aimen Dean, former MI6 spy, went from pledging allegiance to Osama bin Laden to dismantling Al-Qaeda from within.
He explains:
◼ How a teenager from Saudi Arabia went from schoolboy to Al-Qaeda bomb maker in under two years
◼ What Bin Laden was actually like in person and why his first meeting was a deep disappointment
◼ How al Qaeda radicalization works step by step victimhood empowerment then violent action
◼ Why he believes a single book inspired Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the entire modern jihadist movement
◼ What happened when he stumbled on mass graves in Bosnia that first cracked his faith in the cause
◼ How al Qaeda works
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
3:38 - Osama Bin Laden: What Was He Really Like as a Person
5:18 - Growing Up in Saudi Arabia and the Roots of His Radicalization
11:34 - The Book That Inspired Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Modern Jihadism
16:38 - Joining th
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