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127 me. They want to kill us. Don’t you see that?”. 3. “I loved him,” she said. “He was a Palestinian. Very proud, very angry. I loved him, but he mistreated me”. Alice 97 2 The Pious Muslims as well as the Islamist and Islamic Organizations are the Masterminds and the Doers of Terrorism 1. “I want to help you target the Berlin boy, Mustafa Karami. I want to see if we can steer him into the center of the center—to the network that is doing these car bombs in Europe. This is life-or-death stuff for us, my friend. These guys want to kill Americans”. Ferris 107 2. Bulent insisted on taking Sadiki to a celebratory lunch at a neighborhood restaurant. Ferris excused himself, saying he had other business, so the other two went off to a favorite gathering place for Islamist politicians and pamphleteers; it was a restaurant where they would be seen—by pious Muslims connected to the underground, and by the Turkish security men who were watching them”. The narrator 286 3. He was beginning to understand why Azhar had selected Omar Sadiki to star in their play. He was connected to the network of Islamic charities that had funded Al Qaeda in its early day. Indeed, he had all the necessary attributes of a member of the underground”. The narrator 207 4. “Azhar clicked his mouse and a new image came up on the screen. It was a photograph of an Arab man in his late thirties, dressed in a business suit. He had a well-trimmed beard and the look of a man who took fasting and prayer seriously”. The narrator 181 5. Ferris studied Sadiki’s face: The Jordanian had a callus in the middle of his forehead from bowing so passionately in prayer each day. The prayer mark hadn’t been visible in the photo Azhar had displayed. He was ostentatiously devout. That was another good sign”. The narrator 201 6. Ferris began reading the Arabic papers and visiting mosques. The more he talked to the sheiks, the more obvious it became: These people hate us. They don’t want to negotiate anything. They want to kill us”. The narrator 71 128 7. “The man who runs Al Qaeda’s new network. The one who is planning the bombings in Europe”. Nizar 44 8. “So this is what we will do. You have ten fingers. I will ask you ten questions, then ten more, then ten more. Each time you do not tell the truth, I will break one of your fingers. When we are done with the fingers, then we will start on your legs, and your eyes, and your tongue, and your teeth. When the hammer breaks from too much pounding, we will get another one”. 374 Suleiman 374 9. “Azhar touched a computer mouse and the first image appeared on the screen. It showed a thin Arab man with a neat beard and a knitted white prayer cap on his head. It was an intelligent face—displaying not the rough demeanor of a killer but the austerity andasceticism of a scholar. What struck Ferris was the intensity of his eyes. They were small fireballs of rage”. The narrator 170-1 10. “But you are a liar,” snorted Suleiman. He raised the hammer, held it poised in the air for a moment and then brought it down with hideous force on the little finger of Ferris’s right hand. It hit at the middle joint, crushing the bone and skin almost flat against the wood. The pain was so searing that Ferris tore at his bonds in agony. But the only release was his scream”. Suleiman 375 11. “We know where Suleiman is from,” continued Azhar, “even if we do not know where he is now. He is a Syrian, from Hama. His real name is Karim al-Shams. The male members of his family were all killed by Hafez Assad’s troops in 1982—father, uncles, brothers. They were senior figures in the Ikhwan Muslimeen, the Muslim Brotherhood. After the massacre in Hama, the brotherhood in Saudi Arabia adopted Suleiman”. Sami Azhar 171 12. “Analysts noted similarities between the Salafist rhetoric in the Albani Revenge Brigade’s communiqué and that of postings that had been made on jihadi Web sites in recent months. There was a frequently repeated Arabic phrase, for example: “Nahnu rijal wa hum rijal,” which translated as “We are men and they are men.” For the jihadists, the statement meant that the traditional The Narrator 29 0-1