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The Spy Who

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Aimen Dean is trapped. He wants out of al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, but no one gets to leave the jihadi training camps without permission. So when a missile strike hands him the perfect excuse to leave he seizes the chance to break free.

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0:00.0	Wonderry Plus subscribers can binge full seasons of the Spy Who early and add free on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
0:12.9	August 20th, 1998, the Arabian Sea.
0:22.8	On the darkened bridge of a US Navy cruiser, the order to fire has just come in.
0:28.4	It's been 13 days since Al-Qaeda bombed the US embassies in Tanzania and Nairobi.
0:33.8	Now, America's about to strike back.
0:37.3	Tomahawk, MSN, 104.
0:41.3	The personnel on the bridge checked the readings on the illuminated panels in front of them.
0:45.3	The captain looks out the window towards the bow.
0:48.3	Five, four, two, one one launch.
0:59.5	A Tomahawk cruise missile roars out of the launcher.
1:04.3	It arcs into the night sky, powered by its fiery exhaust.
1:08.8	The missile blasts over the sea at more than 500 miles per hour
1:12.1	and enters Pakistani airspace.
1:14.8	And it's got company.
1:16.6	70 Tomahawk missiles are now tearing towards the same target.
1:20.8	By the time they reach Afghanistan, the missiles are shedding altitude fast.
1:25.5	Their targets now in sight.
1:30.3	The terrorist training camps near the city of Khost, camps that are home to several hundred jihadis,
1:33.3	including Amund Dean.
1:39.3	Missiles rain down and unleash their payload of flame and fury.
1:58.0	You've been through one diet after another, maybe for years. You've counted calories, pushed through workouts, cut carbs, and still the weight came back.
2:02.3	It's exhausting.
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