The Spy Who Lived Inside Al-Qaeda | The Struggle Within | 2
The Spy Who
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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As the threat from jihadi preacher Anwar al-Awlaki increases, Morten Storm goes to Yemen to spy on him for the CIA. But al-Awlaki’s got a surprise mission for Storm.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can binge full seasons of the Spy Who early and add free on Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app. |
| 0:14.8 | Please be advised. This episode contains depictions of drug use. |
| 0:23.6 | September 2008. This episode contains depictions of drug use. September 2009, Shukhra, Yemen. |
| 0:28.6 | Danish spy, Morton Storm, pulls his rented Hyundai into the petrol station on the edge of town. |
| 0:35.6 | Next to him, in the passenger seat, is his wife Fadja. |
| 0:39.3 | Her black nihab only reveals her eyes, but it can't hide her unease. |
| 0:44.3 | Storm attempts a reassuring smile. |
| 0:47.3 | I just want to stretch my legs. |
| 0:53.3 | Storm steps into the warm night. |
| 0:55.0 | The place is quiet and the surrounding landscape inky dark. |
| 1:00.0 | Up ahead, on a billboard, is the smiling face of Yemen's mustached president. |
| 1:06.0 | Past that, the road splits in two. |
| 1:10.0 | One fork continues east along the coast. Past that, the road splits in two. |
| 1:14.6 | One fork continues east along the coast. The other swings north to the country's interior, |
| 1:17.6 | where the president's forces hold little sway. |
| 1:20.6 | That way lies bandits, warlords and al-Qaeda fighters. |
| 1:25.6 | And that's where Anwar al-Aulahi wants Storm to go. |
| 1:33.3 | Storm last saw the US-born terrorist cleric a year ago. |
| 1:38.3 | Since then, they've both been busy. |
| 1:41.7 | Storm's been helping his Danish-American and British spy masters infiltrate jihadi networks in Europe and East Africa. |
| 1:50.0 | Al-Aulahi has been using YouTube to spread his message of religious violence worldwide. |
| 1:56.0 | Now, Al-Olaqi wants a face-to-face with Storm. |
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