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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg cover image

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

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

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."

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