>> and he has made surprising connections with al qaeda leaders. according to counterterrorism expert magnus ranstorp. >> by almost sheer luck to some extent that he had been to the many places, he had met all the right people. >> he's almost a forrest gump of radical islamism. >> i don't think that there are many people like him that have all those different dimensions. he was the real deal. >> the real deal. a larger than life personality who reveals his journey from jihad to james bond in this book "agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia," co-authored by paul cruickshank and tim lister, both cnn contributors. coming up, how storm goes from boxer to holy warrior. >> i was invited by osama bin laden to join up with him in the training camp in afghanistan.