Path of Blood: New documentary explores jihadi extremism, radicalisation and al-Qaeda’s target, Saudi Arabia

Aimen Dean was just 19 when he pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden – until the brutal reality of mass murder led him to be flipped by the Qataris, and return to Afghanistan as a spy for MI6

• Stephen Applebaum
• Independent

In the years following 9/11, documentaries such as Restrepo and Armadillo gave us intimate and unflinching accounts of the daily lives of troops fighting the war in Afghanistan.

Jonathan Hacker’s Path of Blood now offers a similar kind of insider’s eye – only this time we’re taken behind the scenes of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, during their bid to topple the Saudi government in…

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