11/ An agent from the Middle East describes his opinion to me as follows: "From my perspective, Taleb A. could also have posed as a Saudi Arabian dissident and publicly declared himself an atheist ex-Muslim. In order to: get asylum and avoid punishment for alleged rape in Saudi Arabia. For me as an intelligence agent, the pattern of how much effort he put into his external image is too obvious. It is too meticulous to be genuine. Of course, there is also the fact that he clearly has a mental personality disorder. It could explain his meticulous actions, but it doesn't have to." The Gulf insider goes on to explain: "Another explanation would be that he could have been SO deeply delusional that he often believed himself to be a critic of Islam - even though he was radical on the inside. As an Arab, I say: No ex-Muslim would attack a Christmas market to express his dissatisfaction with the German authorities for their treatment of Saudi dissidents. I assume that, deep down, he wanted to harm actual critics of Islamism with this attack. And of course he wanted to harm Saudi Arabia; hatred of his homeland, which is taking action against Islamism, is a common thread in his CV. The fact that he is simply mentally ill is never an explanation for people in our profession. First and foremost, he is a radical Shiite Muslim - everything else remains to be seen. In the end, there will be several explanations."