mortem storm 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 yemen courier is handed his thumb drive, an exchange that s under surveillance according to storm. i informed the americans who then sent people over there to watch it. what happens next is unclear. then three weeks later. we begin with the biggest blow to al qaeda since the killing of osama bin laden. one of the top terrorist recruiters in the world. al awlaki is dead. it could mean a bounty for storm. soon he says he receives a text message. it s from a danish agent saying i m so sorry but it wasn t us.
allegiance to awlaki and the militants. what awlaki doesn t know is that storm is a double agent works 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 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 awlaki his inspiration. they d exchanged e-mails. the cleric turned terror leader takes credit. his website reads, nidal hasan is a hero.
storm says he ultimately chooses to work with the cia, which supports his plan to locate and assassinate awlaki by using an unsuspecting woman as bait. unbelievably, awlaki has asked storm to play matchmaker and find him a european blond to be his third wife. storm s search leads him to irina from croatia, a recent convert to islam who now calls herself aminah. they chat on facebook. european blond, exactly what anwar wanted, and she asked me if i knew anwar awlaki and if i could help her to get married. awlaki s mujahadin secrets show storm he s hooked. so far i m interested. please update me on the sister situation. if you could try to speed up her travel into yemen.
threat level to the uk has been raised to critical. one to blow up planes flying to the united states, the other to blow up buildings in canada. and in 2008, a deadly attack on the u.s. embassy in yemen. and storm says he can provide the cia something no one else can. access to awlaki himself. he tells us the cia sent him on this dangerous spy mission october 2008, a month after the embassy attack. to see awlaki, now hiding in a remote part of yemen. he s worried about security, but he s also worried about people following me. the mission, give awlaki a laptop, solar panels, night vision goggles he d requested. some secretly implanted with spy software.
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.