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Sprawled across the front page how america finally caught up with anwar al awlaki. the capture of a low level errand runner was a key breakthrough that led to the al qaeda leaders death. >> i froze when i read it. i was like, i had that ice in my stomach. i said thats my mission. the dates, the time period that he was arrested. young courier matches the young courier that i met. >> storm believes he was key in leading the cia to awlaki. he feels cheated and he lets intelligence agencies know he ...

>> storm believes he was key in leading the cia to al awlaki. he feels cheated and he lets intelligence agencies know he is furious. according to storm, they set up a meeting at the 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 ...

>> 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 aminahs 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 storms claims of a role with the cia. the cia, itself, declin...

Them, but once i concluded that there were generally contradictions, thats when i wiped away totally my faith. >> thats when you stopped being a muslim? >> thats when i stopped being a muslim in my heart, in my belief. >> years of radical brainwashing strip away in seconds and storm makes a stunning decision to switch sides. >> i told them, guys, im no longer muslim. i want to fight the war on terror. >> the question now, would anyone believe him? heres a question for you: when electricity is ge...

Two foiled 2006 plots. one to blow up planes bound for 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. >> hes worried about security but hes also worried about people followin...

Revolver hes built. and a kalashnikov over his shoulder. i tried not to look surprised. the preacher had become a fighter. >> he stays in touch with the radical cleric. they share an e-mail account. messages written, saved as drafts. read but never sent. avoiding, awlaki wrongly believes, spy agencies reading them. storm says the next visit awlaki is even more paranoid and tells him to tighten security. >> when i met anwar back in 2009, he instructed me to use encrypted message system holding mu...

Najib, now a journalist, says he wants to shoot a film about mujahadin. in yemen. >> what he gave me in yemen was very unique. it was crazy, you know, some of the persons that he introduced me to. >> including the radical cleric anwar al awlaki. >> jihad against america is binding upon myself. >> they talk a lot about jihad, for example. and, again, storm was an extreme guy. storm was being talked down by anwar al awlaki. >> talked down from an extreme view? >> yes. awlaki was telling storm to c...

Hideout of one of the worlds most dangerous terrorists. >> you want to follow my mobile phone and satellites, you can see standing still and not moving around. >> the cia will get the video, storm says, only if he survives the mission. the stakes could not be higher. >> if it were leaked or revealed that i am a spy theres no way i could get out of that place because i would be executed. >> how would they execute you? >> shoot you, hang you, crucify you. >> is storms target, one of the united sta...

Well, she wasnt 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, thats the way it goes. >> awlakis 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 ...

$5,000. cash. >> he looked at me and he tapped his chest pocket where the $5,000 were, and he said, can we buy bullets and weapons? i said, yeah, of course you can. my handler in denmark, he said, you know what, youve just been tested and you just passed it because if i said no, he knew, anwar, that this money was from the intelligence and he knew that theyre not allowed to sponsor or to pay for weapons and bullets. >> storm is loving his 007 life, but as he drives away from this meeting with aw...