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The DSR Network

Ali Soufan on the Taliban’s Global Plans

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The celebrated former FBI special agent and counterterrorism specialist says the Taliban aspire to undermining the West’s “Roman Empire.” Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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foreign policy,

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with Jeff Stein and Jean Miserve.

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Hi there, this is Jeff Stein with the special edition

0:33.0

of the SpyTalk podcast.

0:36.0

My guest today is Ali Soufan,

0:38.0

the now illustrious former FBI special agent

0:42.0

and counterterrorism specialist,

0:44.0

whose key role in getting inside Al-Qaeda

0:47.0

was dramatized years ago in the gripping book and movie,

0:51.0

The Looming Tower,

0:53.0

which is still available on Hulu, by the way.

0:57.0

Since then, he's formed his own global risk intelligence firm

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based in New York, the Soufan Group,

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and authored two important books,

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Anatomy of Terror,

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