Hello, dear listener. We are bringing you something extra special on the conflicted feed this week.

As you may or may not have seen, our very own Aimandine gave evidence in Parliament this weekend,

and such is the wonderful day. gave evidence in Parliament this weekend.

And such is the wonderful democracy

that is the United Kingdom.

We are able to share his full evidence with you here.

I was invited to observe Amman's testimony and what can I say he did us proud the

questions came hard and fast and he didn't blink once articulate as always and

opinionated of course but always informed

Aeman never fails to impress. Can't lie it was pretty mind-boggling to think that our

podcast has now reached real decision-makers at the top of the UK government.

We can only hope and indeed pray that our objective fact-based discussions of

Middle Eastern history and politics will encourage those decision-makers to adopt similarly grounded

policies.

I hope you enjoy this fascinating exchange. Order, welcome to this hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee, which is our penultimate

hearing as part of our counter-terrorism inquiry, the last will be with ministers.

Aiman, grateful if you can kindly introduce yourself.

Yes, my name is Aimandine, and in a past life I used to work in an undercover capacity for the UK Intelligence and Security Services.

Do you have any declarations you to make before we start?

I don't think there is anything relevant, apart from the fact that I went, you know, worked in banking.

So, perfect.

And as obviously you know, parliamentary privilege does apply.

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