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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.
communications between that army major and al awlaki in the months before the shooting. officials believe nadal hassen attended some of awlaki s sermons. faisal shazad told officials that awlaki was the one who inspired his actions. the six men arrested for plotting to attract ft. dix in new jersey in 2005 were allegedly found to be in possession of one of awlaki s sermons. they were also reportedly recorded discussing the importance of awlaki s call for jihad against america. in october 2010, awlaki allegedly supervised a plot to blow up two american cargo planes to detonate ink cartridges. a british airlines worker who awlaki was believed to be in contact with was arrested and convicted of trying to get a bomb onboard a plane at london s heathrow airport. a seattle man arrested in june of this year in a plot to attack a military processing center in