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A former Al-Qaeda recruiter speaks (with Jesse Morton)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Black Sheep Mentality

"I think I was born under a utopic idealistic sort of mentality that perpetuated through my life, even unto today," he says. "My father moved us out into the middle of nowhere on a farm that was 200 years old in the middle of Pennsylvania to grow marijuana and organic fruit in the garden." He describes his mother as an enraged woman who beats her children 'really bad' The abuse pitted him against his younger brother but also made him feel good about himself for trying to protect other kids from their mom's violence.

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