looked different, and i felt the need to stand up for them. i would knock out big adults, you know, big-sized men with one punch. and i became feared. at age 19, he joined the banditos, a notorious biker gang. storm says he was their toughest enforcer, raw muscle. boxing, biking with the banditos, armed robbery. whatever storm is doing, he s always doing it to the max. his life is descending into criminality and chaos. storm craves sanity, stability, comes here, his local library, drawn to the tiny religion section. he sees a book, the life of the prophet muhammad. it is the moment when his life changes forever. he pulls the book from the shelf, finds somewhere to sit down, begins reading.
he said, this is going to be great. storm is a spy master s dream. here you have someone who has so many different personas, able to switch through the different personas in such rapid succession. and he appears to have connections at the top levels of al qaeda. there s no doubt that he was very well an agent and has access to some of the soldiers they really want to get access to. storm says danish intelligence wastes no time and sets him up as an operative, giving him a cell phone and about $2,000 a month. i said, yeah, that will pay my bills. and i was happy about what i did. it wasn t for the money. according to storm, his early missions are successful. in lebanon, predicting a jihadi uprising. in denmark, helping identify terror suspects. he quickly becomes a double agent in demand with other
storm doesn t want to be recorded. he s still thinking like a spy, yet he s about to blow his cover. i showed him my passports. he looked at them. i told him this is what happened. storm wants him to tell the world that the cia is double crossing him. he was angry and he was upset and maybe he also was a little nervous because it was the very first time that he d tell anybody he s been living a double life. he warns storm that going public has consequences. i tell him it can be dangerous for him and it will change his life for good. the last thing i say to him is go home, think about this. he does, and decides he s not ready to reveal his spy story to the world. soon he gets this e-mail from al awlaki s blond bride turned widow.
largest mosque. storm explains he delivered a bugged blackberry, destined for an al qaeda operative wanted for his suspected role in the 1998 u.s. embassy bombings that killed 224 people. three months later, that terrorist was dead. storm says because of him. but his most important mission is yet to come in yemen. there was just the time when anwar al awlaki became an interesting person for them. for the cia? for the cia. anwar al awlaki, american educated cleric, al qaeda leader. storm calls him a personal friend from his days as a jihadist. al awlaki has been inspiring terrorist attacks around the world. the 2005 suicide bombings on london trains and a double decker bus leaving 52 dead.
the honey trap plot with the blond is finally in play. 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. tmosthe aere 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.