A former al-Qaeda bomb maker turned MI6 spy who said he met a ‘dishevelled’ Osama Bin Laden six years before 9/11 has revealed how Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden made ‘huge tactical errors’ when pulling out of Afghanistan.
Aimen Dean, who was born in Saudi Arabia, warned British services of terror threats for eight years before his cover was blown by a US intelligence leak in 2006.
A podcast called Conflicted features his story of radicalisation and US failures in foreign policy that lead to the Taliban taking over Afghanistan.
He also shared how he would never have been able to predict how a ‘bunch of refugees would calculate the deadliest terror attack in world history’ referring to Al-Qaeda in the 1990s.
After his cover was exposed, the spy turned to security consulting and speaking as a profession. He also disclosed how Donald Trump instantly recognized that Afghanistan’s war was a lost cause because of his many failing businesses.
He said that it had been a money-making scheme to fund US and Afghan corruption by the former president.
He also believes that Joe Biden was viewed by the Taliban as an ‘old grandfather’ who made grave tactical errors.
Aimen Dean was born in Saudi Arabia and warned British forces of terrorist threats for eighteen years. His cover was exposed by an intelligence leak from the US in 2006.
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Aimen also agreed, adding: Trump realized it was a money-making scheme to corrupt US officials and Afghan officials. He thought “Let’s go take them out!”
Biden and Trump shared the same belief that military is a last resort, and that US taxpayers shouldn’t be spending their money on it.
“The difference between Trump and a bully is that he was willing to prove his power.”
“Biden” is like a grandpa to the Taliban. They thought that they wouldn’t drop the MOAB (Mother of All Bombs), on them since he was harmless.
Trump would have dropped MOABs several times on Taliban to get them out of the capital.
Aimen thinks the Taliban saw Joe Biden, Aimen says, as an “old grandpa” who committed serious tactical mistakes.
“And the Taliban will have respected that act of force. Arabic says that Biden would give more to the cat if he could.
“He committed an error by immediately stating that he would review the Trump peace agreement.
Mike Pompeo understood what he meant when he declared that he wanted to withdraw around May.
The Mujahideen, who are seasonal and join in the summer but leave during winter, swell their ranks. The Taliban’s winter performance is just 25%.
“Only about may mobilization begins – they won’t have enough people if they withdraw in May.
Aimen has revealed how he met a ‘dishevelled’ Osama Bin Laden (pictured) six years before 9/11 and would never have been able to predict how a ‘bunch of refugees would calculate the deadliest terror attack in world history’.
He continued to explain how Biden’s claim that they’ll wait until September 11 means the army is fully prepared. If they’d arrived in May, there’d have been a lot fewer soldiers.
Aimen, a teenager, joined the Bosnian mujahideen. Afghanistan where Bin Laden personally pledged allegiance.
But he started to doubt his cause when he noticed a psychopathic blood lust in some of his combatants that was unrelated to his own Islamic texts and to his understanding of Islam’s compassion.
He was finally crushed by the 1998 attack on Kenya’s American Embassy that saw suicide bombers kill more than 200 people.
He made contact with British intelligence and, from 1999 onwards, secretly worked for MI5 and MI6 as an undercover agent — one of just a handful actually operating inside Bin Laden’s organisation.
«In 1996 when [Bin Laden] landed in Afghanistan from Sudan, we went to meet him,’ he explains on the podcast to Thomas.
We were about a quarter of a mile from him, and it was only 25 minutes away.
He looked like a refugee. Many people see a neat turban, nice robes, well ironed clothes with no crease.
“That’sn’t Osama Bin Laden. That’s someone I knew in August 1996. So did his followers. He appeared like a refugee.
He was in a compound along with another Afghan warlord.
“When we sat together, there was 14 of us. He wanted to know if anybody from Saudi Arabia was nearby.
‘He was telling us how god brought him from Afghanistan to Sudan and I thought: “Isn’t it because you were stabbed in the back in Sudan”?’
Aimen shared the story of Bin Laden’s first conversation about Islamic prophecy. He also explained that they had plans to liberate all cities in the world.
“He was bewildered at our suggestion. He could read people so well. He explained.
“If they were as you saw them in 1996 you wouldn’t have imagined that five years later, this group of refugees would make history in the world and plan for the greatest attack on humanity.”
Aimen did not know about the plot to attack 9/11, but he said that he saw it in London’s Regent’s Street and knew immediately who the perpetrators.
“When I first saw that the World Trade Centre had been targeted, I was certain who was most likely to be responsible.
‘Within thirty minutes, my MI6 handler phoned me and said that he would stay in London, book hotel rooms, as it was going be a long weekend.
Thomas asked him how he knew of the plot and he replied: “It comes down the fact that when I went back to Afghanistan, 1998, I started spying on al-Qaeda.
“In 1999, my duties were limited to the operations and development WMDs.
“It was tightly controlled. The process and the planning. Each operative was trained at separate camps. Three of them were my acquaintances.
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