Al Qaeda member turned UK spy reveals IS '100 times bigger than anywhere al-Qaeda was'

A founding member of al-Qaeda who flipped side to become a spy for UK intelligence services has revealed the inner workings of Islamic State (IS) to prevent the young people from falling into the trap and said that the group is "100 times bigger than anywhere al-Qaeda was".

According to News.com.au, the former militant is known as Aimen Dean talked about his extraordinary past in an interview.

He said that they are much bigger than al Qaeda in terms of firepower and financial resources, with a sense of "elitist isolationism" to allow recruits to indulge psychopathic tendencies.

IS militants do not see themselves as a part of this world; they seek a new, purer world, said Dean.

He said that if one tells those militants that they would be able to kill and burn villages to serve a cause and that they will be rewarded by God in the aftermath, it liberates their inner psychopath.

IS militants have small resources at the moment and their massacres are small as well currently, Dean said. The question right now is what if they have bigger resources in the future, he added.