Ali Soufan Interviewed by The Guardian: Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan: ‘ISIS is not Over – it Will Take a Different Shape’

June 11, 2018

Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan: ‘ISIS is not Over – it Will Take a Different Shape’

 

The Guardian
By: Emine Saner / Photograph By: Antonio Olmos

Some American teenagers dream of a glamorous career in the FBI, a chance to shoot guns and catch criminals, but the idea had not occurred to Ali Soufan. At least, not until The X Files. “Mulder and Scully were going round the world looking for aliens,” he says, laughing. It looked fun. Besides, he did not believe he would get in; he was just intrigued by the process. Why did he think they would not accept him? “Well, look at me; I don’t look like an FBI agent, at least I didn’t at the time.” He was an Arab-American and a bit of an intellectual. “I just felt that I wasn’t a law-enforcement guy, that wasn’t what I wanted to do in my life. But I went, I took all the tests.” They offered him a job. Soufan, who had just completed a master’s in foreign relations, thought he would return to academia if it did not work out.

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To read the full article please click on the link below:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/former-fbi-agent-ali-soufan-isis-is-not-over-it-will-take-a-different-shape

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