within weeks, he is converting to islam. it changed me. it spoke to me. that book. this is the truth. the truth. i found the truth. he takes the name murad storm, travels to yemen, attends a seminary, learns arabic and a strict uncompromising interpretation of islam. i was taught everyone else is wrong. as simple as that, black and white. you have the truth, they re wrong? that s right. and those who are wrong, storm believes, are the enemy. all he can think about is training for jihad. storm is white and european. traits that might help a terrorist living in the west avoid detection. he says he soon catches the eye of al qaeda s leader.
storm scrawls mission notes finalizing plans getting her to yemen. meet mcdonald s 10:00 al. she needs a cover story to get a visa at the embassy. buy the plane ticket and secret e-mail accounts to keep in touch. $3,000 cash sanctioned by the cia. if she gets to yemen, the cia promises storm $250,000. he knows it could cost the blond hr life. how do you reconcile that? she s an innocent. well, she wasn t according to my judgment of her. she was a ticking time bomb rung around europe. and she was already convinced about what she wanted to do. and if we can use her to get close to anwar awlaki and to hit him, well, that s the way it goes. awlaki s encrypted e-mail to storm dictates she bring one carry-on bag, one medium
if the plan works, they will find one of the world s most wanted terrorists. storm tells us inside this seaside villa with his danish and cia handlers, it s serious. eyes on laptops and blackberries. they are tracking every step of aminah s travel to yemen. the atmosphere is electric, but hanging over the operation questions what happens if the european blond dies? collateral damage. aminah makes it to yemen. storm recalls receiving a text message from one of his danish handlers. saying, congratulations, brother, you just became rich. very rich. soon, he is in yet another meeting with intelligence agents. one from the cia is anxious for storm to open the briefcase they brought with them.
storm is white and european. traits that might help a terrorist living in the west avoid detection. he says he soon catches the eye of al qaeda s leader. i was invited by osama bin laden to join up with him in the training camps in afghanistan. storm won t make it to afghanistan, but he names his son osama in honor of bin laden. he was a person who dared to challenge the america. next time najib sees him in denmark, storm is a different than. the things that he was saying were so extreme that some of the imams, they couldn t cope with it, the stuff he was saying. so he was hanging out on the streets and preaching a lot. preaching what? he was preaching actually jihad. that s him, smiling, in 2005. a radical islamist demonstration and flag burning outside the american embassy in london. storm is hungry for real action. for jihad. he s been in a very hardcore environment. he sees his opportunity when