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The Power of Narrative
"My job was the one who was pulling the strings and creating the narrative," he says. "I thought I was worshiping God by doing so" The more radicalized you get, the more willing you are to act on al-Qaeda's directives,. You know, I sort of realized that ultimately I probably wasn't trying to commit an act of terrorism ... But I was trying to prove my own valid and worth as an individual."