he s been in a very hardcore environment. he sees his opportunity when najib khaja, now a journalist, says he wants to shoot a film about mujahadin in yemen. the access that he gave me in yemen was very unique. it was crazy, you know, some of the persons that he introduced me to. including the radical cleric anwar al awlaki. jihad against america is binding upon myself. they talk a lot about jihad, for example, and, again, storm was an extreme guy. storm was being talked down by anwar al awlaki. talked down from an extreme view? yes. awlaki was telling storm to chill out. yet storm won t be calmed. he decides to join jihadists in somalia. and i had to join that. i had to join a call to my religious belief.
storm believes he was key in leading the cia to al awlaki. he feels cheated and he lets intelligence agencies know he is furious. according to storm, they set up a meeting at the hotel in denmark. inside the lobby storm says he starts secretly recording as danish agents approach. i put my iphone in my pocket and i recorded the conversation. then inside a private room, storm says he continues recording as he comes face to face with a man he says is cia agent michael. either you trust us or you don t. in this case, i guess you don t. we had our team. we had our project going forward, of which you played the highest role. okay the president of the united
what i did? three years later this is still hard. it s very hard. the blowup here is a turning point. trust between mortem and the cia if it ever existed will never be the same again. the very next day a defiant mortem storm pulls into this roadway rest stop near copenhagen. he s bitter and has arranged to meet a newspaper reporter at sunset. he said we ll take a mobile phone and put it in your car.
through storm, al awlaki and aminah exchange encrypted e-mails. it s a match. they agree to marry. storm says the cia sends him to austria for a rendezvous with aminah. they will meet at the bus station. it s storm s most important spy mission so far. he can t afford any mistakes. but almost immediately he s disobeying the cia. according to storm, the american agents have a very specific plan. walk past this bakery. take aminah to a specific cafe that they have under surveillance. they want the first meeting with aminah here in this cafe. realizing it is selling beer, no place for a devout muslim, storm, without checking with his handlers, changes the plan. he brings aminah to a nearby
this call to demonstrate allegiance to al awlaki and the militants. what al awlaki doesn t know is that storm is a double agent working for the other side, for danish, british and american spies. you should support the islamic causes whether we re talking about somalia or afghanistan or iraq or chechnya. it s clear to the west that al awlaki is a growing danger, infecting the minds of muslims everywhere. just months after the skype call, united states army major nidal hasan goes on a shooting rampage at his base in ft. hood, texas. hasan kills 13 fellow soldiers and calls al awlaki his inspiration. they d exchanged e-mails. the cleric turned terror leader takes credit.