Talk about a match made in hell.
A Croatian woman became the third wife of American-born al-Qaeda terrorist leader Anwar al Awlaki thanks to a CIA plot designed to track down and kill one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.
Al Awlaki was linked with 2009’s Fort Hood shooting and the foiled airplane underwear bomb that happened later in the same year.
The devilish plot to kill al Awlaki revolved around a Danish CIA-al Qaeda double agent who was paid $250,000 by the US CIA in 2009 to find and deliver a European wife to the terrorist mastermind, according to Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
The operation was going well until the woman in question got to Yemen and was told by al Awlaki’s henchmen to abandon her suitcases which were equipped with CIA tracking devices.
The CIA has declined to comment on the story.
According to the double agent who revealed the plot, Morten Storm, in 2010 he found a Croatian woman named Aminah through a Facebook page setup for fans of al Awlaki and used the money he got from the CIA to play matchmaker.
Through a series of bizarre and chilling videos, text messages, and emails Aminah enticed al Awlaki.
“I am 32 years old and am ready for dangerous things,” Aminah wrote to al Awlaki in one text exchange. “I am ready to die for the sake of Allah.”
“I feel nervous, this is very awkward for me,” Aminah says in a subsequent taped video which served as a marriage proposal. “I just taped this so you can see how I look.”
Apparently Aminah’s wooing worked because al Awlaki, according to Storm, accepted the proposal in a video of his own, “If you can live in difficult conditions, don’t mind loneliness, and can live with restrictions on your communications with others, that is great.”
With the courtship done, al Awlaki invited Aminah to meet up with him in Yeman whereupon the CIA was planning to kill the couple in a drone strike, according to Storm.
Al Awlaki was killed in a CIA drone strike in September, 2011.
Proving that even a CIA plot couldn’t stop love, Aminah wrote to Storm soon after al Awlaki’s death to say that she wanted to go on a suicide mission to avenge her husband’s death but al Qaeda leaders declined her request.
Aminah now works for an on-line al Qaeda magazine, “Inspire,” according to Storm.