Aimen Dean (@AimenDean) was once one of al-Qaeda’s most respected bomb-makers who swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. He eventually switched sides and spent eight years as an MI6 spy trying to take al-Qaeda down from the inside. He is the author of Nine Lives: My Time as the MI6’s Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda and co-host of podcast Conflicted. This is pa ... Show More
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1245: Black Friday | Skeptical Sunday
<p><strong>Jessica Wynn uncovers Black Friday's dark secrets — fake discounts, cheaper products, and manufactured urgency — on this week's Skeptical Sunday.</strong></p><p>Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of <em>The Jordan Harbinger Show</em> where <s ... Show More
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Sep 2022
Al-Qaeda’s Next Top Terrorist: The jihadist movement after Zawahiri
A recent US drone strike, in the heart of the Afghan capital of Kabul, killed the head of Al-Qaeda. Ayman al-Zawahiri had led the group since 2011, following the death of Osama bin Laden, and during that time the jihadist terror organisation underwent a number of significant chan ... Show More
25m 2s
Sep 2022
#296 | Osama Bin Laden | The World's Most Wanted Man
<p><strong> </strong></p><br><p>He was put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list in 1999, and he would only be removed after he was hunted down and killed by US operatives in 2011</p><p>In this episode, we will tell the story of how Osama bin Laden went from a shy, religio ... Show More
23m 59s
Aug 2021
#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Peter Bergen about the US exit from Afghanistan, the resurgence of the Taliban, and his new book, "The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden." They discuss the Neo-isolationist consensus on the Right and Left, the legitimacy of ... Show More
46m 54s
Nov 2023
Unveiled: Yasmine Mohammed on Extreme Fundamentalism
<p>Today’s episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. </p> <p>Yasmine Mohammed attended Islamic schools and wore a hijab starting at the age of nine, all while living in Vancouver, BC. In this episode, she invites us into her childhood to get a taste of what it was like to live in two d ... Show More
45m 56s
Nov 2022
The Bin Laden Files, Part 2/3: Take The Shot
As a new era of True Spies begins, Sophia di Martino joins the experts to reveal Osama bin Laden’s origins, methods and motivation. CIA operatives Gina Bennett and Tracy Walder join CNN’s Peter Bergen, the man who first interviewed Osama, to share the unvarnished truth about Bin ... Show More
45m 41s