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Visit us online at booktv. Org. Morten storm is a former danish radical islamist. He talks about his experiences as a member of alqaeda and his later life as a double agent employed by u. S. , british and danish intelligence agencies. This is about an hour and a half. The i will be brief, but as you know, as we follow the media even in these days, the rising concern about young men going to the middle east in search of jihad or in search of adventure and finding themselves caught up in extremism and violence and in many cases converting either to extremist causes or becoming disillusioned and returning, in either case resulting in their becoming a problem when they return to the west. There was a book during the cold war, my war, which was a 1949 book called the god that failed. It was about people who had embraced communism, felt it was they were true believers, and they lost the faith. They realized that was not the holy grail. And tonights story is very much a story of conversion, o ....