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she s full of joy and tears. you do really know him, she says. you do really know him. i hope you are well. then storm has her record a video for awlaki in return. my brother, it s me, aminah, and i just want to tell you that right now i feel nervous and this is very awkward for me. awlaki wants a blond european wife. the plan has to work. storm convinces her to break muslim taboo and take off her head scarf. brother, this is my without the head scarf so you can see my hair. i hope you will be pleased with it. coming up james bond. 007. clink, clink, clink. and you know, it just opened up. agent storm s biggest payday yet, but all does not go as planned. the americans refused to
through storm, awlaki and aminah exchange encrypted e-mails. it s a match. they agree to marry. they will come through 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 devout muslim, storm, without checking with his handlers, changes the plan. he brings aminah to a nearby mcdonald s. shows her awlaki s notes on his computer.
he was extremely happy. yeah. but this also, an e-mail from aminah, a bombshell. security conscious awlaki told aminah to dump the suitcase before they meet. leaving behind it and the tracking device. cnn contacted aminah s family who declined to comment. storm says the cia is furious his plan failed. the americans refused to speak to me for six months. no u.s. official here in denmark or anywhere else has ever acknowledged storm s claims of a role with the cia. the cia, itself, declined our request for a comment. the cia sidelined even as awlaki s killer crusade continues. sophisticated printer bombs like this.
well, she wasn t according to my judgment of her, she was a ticking time bomb running 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 suitcase. storm says he picks a gray samsonite, passes the measurements to the cia, which hides the tracking device in the handle. as she arrives at the vienna airport for her flight, the attractive blond has no idea what she is carrying. aminah is getting on her plane for yemen. storm is hundreds of miles away in denmark. the honey trap plot with the blond is finally in play.