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August 2011, Senar, Yemen.

Danish spy Morton Storm leans against his Suzuki truck and watches the crowds outside the KFC in front of him. It's a late evening during Ramadan, and the fast food

restaurant is crowded with young people breaking their daytime fast. The brightly lit Colonel Sarner's logo is a surreal contrast with the white and gold minarets

of the huge mosque that sits just behind the restaurant.

Storm is waiting for a courier.

In the pocket of his thorpe, he's got a USB stick containing an encrypted message for Anwar Al-Aulaki.

The terrorist cleric still thinks Storm is a friend and committed Western converts to the jihadist movement.

But Al-Aulaki is also a CIA assassination target. So now, all contact is made via encrypted messages on USB sticks that are ferried back and forth via a succession of trusted Al-Qaeda Kurias.

But the USB stick in Storm's pocket contains more than a message.

It also contains a tracker implanted by the CIA to help them find Al-Aulaki's hideout.

Storm sees a young man pushing through the crowd.

He's wearing a traditional Yemeni turban wrapped around his dark hair and is heading straight for Storm.

It must be the Courier.

As he approaches, the courier speaks in a hushed voice.

Color.

Green.

Code words exchanged, Storm hands over a sports bag.

It's full of supplies requested by Alaulaki, including wood briquettes,

the kind used by campers to make fires.

Al-Aulaki wanted hexamine brickets,

but hexamine can also be used for making explosives.

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