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Morten Storm

Written by Orla Borg
Carsten Ellegaard Christensen
Morten Pihl

Story on former Danish secret agent Morten Storm, who helped the CIA locate Al-Qaida leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who was subsequently killed by an American drone attack in Yemen. The story received wide coverage in the U.S. and Europe and fed an important debate on the role of European countries in the U.S. ‘war on terror.’