If the name might not be familiar to you, you may recognize his face… He’s the “Ex-CIA” guy from YouTube… Do you think he’s credible and how much of his words are true? To what extent is he trustable?

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    He said he’s fluent in Arabic and thats how he befriended and turned an al Qaeda guy in Pakistan but I heard him speak Arabic and its lousy and he would stand out as a foreigner a mile away.

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      3 months ago

      Any language learned as an adult will be extremely difficult to speak well, to the point of sounding native

      • Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Youre right but in the interview he made out like he was able to blend in with his Arabic.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve already seen he say that he would hire people to bring information and not get it himself because his accent was obvious “even in my fluent arabic”