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i am honored here to introduce morten storm, paul cruickshank, and tim lister for the book lamp of "agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia" which is just coming out in the united states -- launch -- it is a remarkable book. if you look on the back you will see this from me. a few words about the authors starting with tim. tim joined the bbc out of college and worked in the middle east for a number of years and in 1996 moved to cnn and spent a number of years there with cnn international. he specialized, not exclusively though, in terrorism. in 2011 he was at an obscure village and i am told he was in eastern ukraine. paul cruickshank is a cnn terrorist analyst and investigative reporter. his website said he is out of new york but from what i can tell he roams the world as much as tim. he has degrees from cambridge and john hopkins university. he is a great reporter and did great scholarly work on al-qaeda. i just sent off a book chapter that draws in part in his work. it is a real pleasure to be with him this evening. and last and certainly not least is morten storm who you will

without further adieu, ladies and gentlemen, paul crookshank, tim lister, and morten storm.[applause] >> while they're taking their seats let me mention one thing. those who want to delve into more detail on the think that went through motorren storm's morten storm's mind, there was a terrific pod cast. i refer you to that pod cast. should it should be on the air within two or three days at the most. an in-depth interview on their experience with morten storm. en in. >> thank you very much everybody. it's an absolute pleasure to be here. thank you so much. we're actually delighted to be here, delighted that morten can be here as well in this undisclosed location. the palm tree is not necessarily real behind him. but morten's story is really quite exceptional. we have never seen a story like this, of somebody who has gone so deep inside the world of al qaeda and has come back to tell the tale north a courtroom or interrogation or guantanamo, but also somebody who has been so deeply involved with western intelligence, the tip of the spear in some of their most important counte

i am honored here to introduce morten storm, paul cruickshank, and tim lister for the book lamp of "agentlife inside al qaeda and the cia" which is just coming out in the united states -- launch -- it is a remarkable book. if you look on the back you will see this from me. a few words about the authors starting with tim. tim joined the bbc out of college and worked in the middle east for a number of years and in 1996 moved to cnn and spent a number of years there with cnn international. he specialized, not exclusively though, in terrorism. in 2011 he was at an obscure village and i am told he was in eastern ukraine. paul cruickshank is a cnn terrorist analyst and investigative reporter. his website said he is out of new york but from what i can tell he roams the world as much as tim. he has degrees from cambridge and john hopkins university. he is a great reporter and did great scholarly work on al-qaeda. i just sent off a book chapter that draws in part in his work. it is a real pleasure to be with him this evening. and last and certainly not least is morten storm who you will be seeing