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Dawn, January 2012, the al-Qaeda controlled town of Yahr in southern Yemen.

Yulah! Yulah!

Yolah!

In a mosque, Morton's Storm watches the jihadi fighters he's with get their rifles.

The Yemeni military is attacking again.

One of the fighters grabs Storm's arm. Brother, wait here. We cannot lose you

this day. Storm doesn't protest. He knows he's more useful to Al-Qaeda alive than dead.

As a pale-skinned Dane with a ginger beard and a hefty build, he doesn't look like he belongs here.

But for years, he's been a valuable link between Yemeni and European jihadists.

Or at least that's what Al-Qaeda thinks. In reality, he's a spy.

He's here on a high-risk mission to learn where the terrorist group's local leaders are hiding,

so US drones can take them down.

With the fighters gone, Storm charges up the stairs of the mosque and onto the roof.

The sun is rising, turning the sky purple pink.

Across town where the fighting is underway, a column of black smoke billows into the air.

A Yemeni Air Force jet shoots overhead.

Storm looks down.

A pickup truck speeds away from the mosque, the armed jihadis he was praying with moments ago to the battlefront.

On seeing it, a sickening realization brings Storm to his knees.

His backpack is still in the cab of that truck.

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