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Herzegovina, or Abkhazia. He said his family had Muslim neighbors, I remember that. But he didn’t like to talk about it, and your father didn’t
press him. Everybody got jumbled together in Pittsburgh, and I guess they didn’t like being called ‘Bohunks,’ or ‘Polacks,’ or whatever they
happened to be. So they just thought of themselves as Americans. Or so I always imagined”.
b. Loving Western stuffs and managing themselves
like the Westerners 1.
“Ma’alesh. Too bad. He’ll get over it. Who loves the Americans more than me?”.
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“Ferris had found him intimidating at first, but after a few weeks, he began to think of him as an Arab version of the lounge singer Dean
Martin. Hani Salaam was cool, from the glistening polish of his shoes to the smoky lenses of his sunglasses. Like most successful men of the
East, he had a reserved, almost diffident demeanor. His smooth manners could seem British at first, a remnant of the semester he had spent at
Sandhurst long ago. But the bedrock of his character was the generous but secretive spirit of a Bedouin tribal leader”.
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3. “People back at Langley always described Hani as a “pro.” There was
something condescending in that, like white people describing a well- spoken black man as “articulate””.
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“How are you, man?” said Bassam. “Are you cool?” He liked American street talk, even though Ferris told him it was insecure. It reminded him
of home, in Dearborn”. Bassam
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“Well, boss, I have someone very crazy for you today. This one you are not going to believe. Really, man. He’s too much.” Bassam was
sounding like a DJ in his excitement”. Bassam
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“His predecessor, Francis Alderson, had recruited a young Palestinian named Ayman from a town in the West Bank called Jenin. He was
living in Amman now, and like most Palestinians, what he wanted most The
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was a visa for America”. 7.
“Living well might not be the best revenge, but it was the only one currently available for the Palestinians who were now a majority of the
population. They came back from Doha and Riyadh with small fortunes, which they used to build huge villas in Amman where they could
entertain each other, hatch business deals and show off their wives, Western-style. Cosmetic surgery had become a leading industry in the
new Amman; a woman hadn’t arrived until she’d had her nose fixed or her breasts done. It was like Los Angeles, without the ocean. Amman
even had a magazine called Living Well, with ads that told young Arab women where to shop for bikinis and Sex and the City DVDs and retro
furniture. The recent Iraqi refugees had added their own acrid flavor to the mix; they were bidding up local real estate and providing work for
thousands of thugs to protect them from the other thugs”. The
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c. Betraying their countries for
prefering much involvement in the
War on Terrorism but Ignoring
Neocolonialism 1.
“Ferris had a busy day in Ankara. He met with Bulent Farhat, the Turkish agent who would be posing as Unibank’s chief engineer. Farhat
had been an Afghan traveler long ago; the Turks had sweated his jihadist passion out of him when he returned and had set him free on
condition that he continue reporting for them, at first in Salafist circles at home and then, when they trusted him, from mosques in Germany.
The CIA had picked him up in Germany and ran him as a unilateral, even though he was still on the books of the Turkish service”.
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2. “We would like you to help us,” Hani said. “And it is very simple, what
you must do. We want you to continue your life, as before. We do not want you to be a traitor, or a bad Muslim, or to do anything that is
haram. We only want you to be a friend. And a good son”. Hani
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3. “It is true that I was well compensated, Ed, but I also invested wisely”.
“Sami used to do some fancy freelance work for the agency and the Sami
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