Nine Lives- 'my time as MI6'S top spy inside Al-Qeada. Wriiten by Aiden Dean.- A book review written by Liam Miles.
After having previously read ‘Terrorist Hunter’ written by Tamer Elnoury, it left me feeling even more intrigued as to what defines terrorism in a modern global political era, how can terrorism be even possibly defeated, and what factors attracts individuals to wage war on the West? These questions were answered by Aimen Dean, who has now written a book titled – ‘Nine lives. The book goes into fascinating detail about Aimen’s story having signed up to wage Jihad in the 1980s in Bosnia, with the original intentions of liberating Bosnian Muslims, who were being persecuted by the Serbs in a mass genocide. Aimen as a young boy fell under the spell of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. He declared an oath of allegiance and loyalty to Bin Laden; however, he soon came to realise that Al-Qaeda was not about liberation and freeing persecuted Muslims, it was however about waging war against the United States and encouraging as well as plotting the murder of innocent civilians. He eventually wante