reporter: storm believes he was key in leading the cia to awlaki. he feels cheated and he lets intelligence agencies know he is furious. according to storm, they set up a meeting at the mar yenlist 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. i don t. we had our team. we had our whole project going forward, of which you played the highest role. okay? the president of the united
morten storm, who awlaki believes is a friend, says he s tried but failed before to help locate the radical cleric. now he tells of a new plan, one in which an unsuspecting yemeni courier is handed storm s thumb drive to take to awlaki, an exchange that is under surveillance according to storm. i informed the danish government. they informed the americans, who then sent people over there to watch, to watch it. reporter: what happens next, unclear. then three weeks later we begin with the biggest blow to al qaeda since the killing one of the top terrorist recruiters in the world. anwar al awlaki is dead. reporter: awlaki s death could mean a $5 million cia bounty for storm. soon he says he receives a text message.
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looked different. and i felt the need to stand up for them. i would knock out big, adult you know, big-sized men with one punch. and i became feared. at age 19, he joined a banditos, the 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. six hours, hundreds of pages.
qaeda leader who s inspired terror attacks in america. morten storm says it is his plan backed by the cia. it s unbelievable that he has been able to be so trusted by one of the world s most hunted terrorist leaders, that he would even become a matchmaker. if all goes as planned, the unwitting bride to be will travel with a suitcase that has a hidden tracking device. storm scrolls mission notes finalizing plans getting her to yemen. meet mcdonald s, 10:00 a.m. 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 her life. how do you reconcile that? she s an innocent.