389. Road To 9/11: Origin of Al-Qaeda (Part 1)

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Aug 23, 202655:06History

What were the building blocks of the rise of Radical Islamism that paved the road to the 9/11 terror attacks? How did the torture of radical members of the Muslim Brotherhood fan the flames of Islamist thought in the 196...

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