Agent Storm: Inside al Qaeda for the CIA

[Uncle Joe]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/world/agent-storm/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

He was so trusted by senior al Qaeda leaders he once fixed one up with a European wife, all the while -- Storm claims -- working for Western intelligence agencies.

"For half a decade, I moved back and forth between two worlds and two identities -- when one misplaced sentence could have cost me my life," he writes in the book. "Traveling between atheism and hardline Islam, English and Arabic."

(snip)

Storm dove head first into the world of jihad, traveling with his Danish friend, journalist Nagieb Khaja, who wanted to shoot a film about mujahedeen in Yemen.

While there, Storm befriended Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was poised to become a key member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and a major U.S. target.

There is more on the link and this will be telecast at 9:00 pm this evening.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. I'm betting this guy

is a disinformation pimp promoting the CIA

Gee...... he can tell his whole story without the CIA shutting him up.... How lucky he is.

Maybe he can tell the Senate who was spying on them or what the Taliban were doing in the White House with Bush.



How Washington Funded the Taliban


http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/how-washington-funded-taliban

[Uncle Joe]

5. From reading the CNN article, Ichingcarpenter, he has a grievance with the CIA

for not paying him the promised 5 million dollars.

My take from the CNN article is, if his experience is true, it would be limited to a micro level, his own experience as a "grunt" more or less.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. The bigger question for me

Is why is the CIA promoting this guy and the TV media?

There's a spin here and we need to look at it beyond the hype.

So I think your post is worthy of discussion and
acknowledgement.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Personally I agree with you regarding our ignorant, myopic funding of the Talaban despite

their draconian, authoritarian rule and sheltering of al Qaeda.

We created Frankenstein.

[KoKo]

2. Strange...article doesn't say why he's giving this interview to CNN...

Book Deal?

[Uncle Joe]

3. I beleive he is coming out with a book, KoKo.

I saw an image of it on CNN's website earlier.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. His CIA tells all secret Taliban book.....and the CNN gives him a voice

and major airtime to promote it.

Gee......tell us what you think my friend after you view it.

You are an informed DUer
so I expect your critical appraisal of this
misinformation, disinformation fluff propaganda piece I expect.

It should be interesting if you look at it in that light.

[Uncle Joe]

6. I meant post #5 to reply to this post, not your first one, Ichingcarpenter.

[Octafish]

9. So, he's the guy who fingered al-Awlaki for the drone?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2164005

So, how un-American can we get? Friendly Fascism or Full-bore NAZI?

[Uncle Joe]

10. He could've been, Octafish, but according to the article, the CIA denied him 5 million dollars

because they claimed to have received the information on al-Awlaki from another stream.

There is another interesting aspect as well, Storm claims that al-Awlaki was trying to talk him down from his extremism, apparently al-Awlaki was less radical than Storm, before he "switched sides."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/world/agent-storm/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

"They talked a lot about jihad, for example. And again, Storm was an extreme guy. Storm was being talked down by Anwar al-Awlaki," Khaja said. "Al-Awlaki was telling Storm to chill out."

Undeterred, Storm decided to join jihadists in Somalia, but, at the last minute, he got a call telling him not to come.

(snip)

However, Storm also got an email from Aminah. She wrote that al-Awlaki had told her to dump the suitcase before they met. She had left both it and the tracking device behind.

Storm says his CIA handlers were furious: "The Americans refused to speak to me for six months."

al-Awlaki was a moderating influence on Storm or perhaps al-Awlaki didn't trust Storm for he told his wife to dump the suitcase probably believing he was being tracked, the other possibility being it was just unneeded baggage.

It's hard to tell what is truth and what is fiction in the rabbit hole.

[Octafish]

11. Incredible! Thank you for the details, Uncle Joe...

Secret government is un-democratic. Who is on whose sides is known only to those inside the labyrinth and in possession of the secret map.

Never heard the full story of Mr. Storm. I will learn more, thanks to you.