How I Went From Al-Qaeda Bomb Maker To British Spy | Extraordinary Lives Podcast | @LADbible
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Published 2022-10-05
Extraordinary Lives is a podcast from the team behind LADbible’s Minutes With.
We speak to remarkable people who each have a unique story to tell - spies, terrorists, hackers, gangsters, killers, people with particular conditions, and those who’ve lived unreal experiences. These are the stories that resonated the most with LADbible’s audience when they were originally told on Minutes With.
In this podcast, LADbible’s Ben Powell-Jones sits down with those individuals for a more in-depth conversation, revealing untold tales for the first time.
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All Comments (21)
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There is no way this story could be watched for 1.5 hours without this man's great gift of memory and speaking. The way he can recall dates and places is unbelievable when I can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday
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Ladbible. The interviewer is absolutely asking the right questions and letting the answers come out. Fantastic journalism.
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Aimen is a national treasure. I'm still shocked by the way people in Scotland have treated him. To the point he is now leaving the country. The man is a hero.
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Can't believe the Ladbible has gone from a meme page to a journalism outlet of higher quality than most of the old media and TV combined in this country. Not complaining though, this is excellent content.
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“Bankers are basically like terrorists” never a truer word 😂
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Wow, I must say hearing him talk about him and his children being turned away and discredited after everything he has done for this country is absolutely heartbreaking.
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Bro paused and selected "Change Teams"
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Ladbible, this was amazing. I don't know if you guys will ever read this but Amien Dean should definitely pitch his story to be made into a Netflix series. It is an incredible human story.
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First time i saw the short version of his story, i felt like i wanted to hear more. So happy this came out.
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I could listen to that man speak for hours. He is an intelligent man that has an amazing story. I'm surprised no one wrote a biography on just him.
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What shook me the most was his unshaken faith that everything he did was right. Even when his own kids were basically mobbed out of GB (btw how disgusting is that??) and he still feels good about basically saving these people. Truely an inspiration.
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An important thing to realize with this guy is that he may have switched sides, but he didn't change his morals. He followed his morals which caused him to become a spy. But Holy Shit. I threw this on for listening while I worked, but got sucked into this story and got no work done. This is wild to hear, I cannot imagine living it. Absolutely wild!
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(1:17:39) This man's childhood was war. Then he lost his parents early. He adapted well because of the large extended family and community. When he went off to Bosnia, he went back to something he thought of as being normal:war. When he went back as a spy, he returned to his 'normal'. I think he said he wanted to be posted somewhere at one point because as he put it "I was bored". Only if war is your normal, can you shrug things off as normal that would give another person ptsd.
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I am so sorry for the way you were treated in Scotland. As a British citizen I thank you for risking your life to keep us safe. May god be with you always.
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This guy spits out memorable phrases like a broken fortune cookie machine.
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They should make a movie about his life and experience. Honestly the story itself is more captivating than anything a Hollywood writer can come up with, it’s honestly an incredible story and telling his experience is I think more important than anything else for people to see what the world is really like through someone else’s eyes
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Men like this can provide an insight to the world like nobody else.
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I can't imagine how pissed off the UK would have been by the US burning a high level Al-Qaeda spy, oof. Imagine that was a spicy phone call followed by a lot of face palming. Be amazing to have Suskind and Dean in the same room just for a talk though.
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That headteacher should be ashamed of themselves / get fired. How dare they say that his daughters won’t be accepted.
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This presenter is so good at asking the questions I wouldn’t have thought of… in order to get the answers which provide more depth to the story.
