"All clear." "SSShhh." "Ali." "Do we belong there?" "Do we not?" "It doesn't matter how you would answer that question and we can't see the end." "We can't even console ourselves that our enemy is just as tired as we are." "Because they're not." "It is a fallacy that prolonged war will weaken an occupied enemy." "He's dead." "It most likely will make your enemy stronger." "and they adapt and respond accordingly." "While here at home" "The explosion occurred in one of Manchester's heavily Asian neighborhoods." "with every death reported we have to deal with a public-opinion trajectory that slides rapidly from supportive to negative to downright hostile." "People just get sick and tired of a moment's silence at a ball game." "They just wanna be told that it's over." "Police and emergency workers in Manchester arestillcombingthroughwhat isleft of this block of flats." "They say this was not the target." "Had the bombs being constructed here found their eventual intended target thedevastationcould" "Despite the fact we have markedly increased our operational intensity we're not seeing any progress." "What we're dealing with here is potentially a global conflagration that requires constant diligence in order to suppress." "you see because our enemy has realized that they are fighting guys from the future." "it is brilliant as it is infuriating." "and you behave like it's the past then guys from the future find it very hard to see you." "shut down your e-mail hand-to-hand turnyourbackontechnology and just disappear into the crowd" "No flags." "No uniforms." "You got your basic grunts on the ground there." ""Who is it we're fighting?"" "your friends dress just like your enemies andyourenemiesdress like your friends." "they do not wanna negotiate." "Not at all." "They want the universal caliphate established across the face of the Earth andtheywanteveryinfidelconverted or dead." "what's changed is that our allegedly unsophisticated enemy has cottoned on to the factually unsophisticated truth we're an easy target." "We are an easy target andourworldasweknowit is a lot simpler to put to an end than you might think." "We take our foot off the throat of this enemy for one minute and our world changes completely." "Mr. Hoffman." "BASSAM" "I'm coming." "You're early." "what's happening?" "What's the story?" "Rules of the day." "start shooting." "Nobody gets traded." "Everybody dies." "So same as every day?" "yes." "Thanks." "All right." "Tell me something real." "man." "You know me." "let's hear it." "a guy named Nizar." "right?" "you know?" "then the jihadists." "man." "He's supposed to do a martyrdom operation but he doesn't wanna fucking die." "So he's coming to us." "He's coming to us?" "Mm-hm." "move the donkey." "let's go." "Get these guys moving." "Let's go." "come on." "my God." "Just get the Buy the fucking flowers." "come on." "what are the chances your man's playing both sides?" "I don't know." "What are they with me?" "Three to one." "All right." "Let's slow down." "Is this it?" "Yeah." "This is it." "Nitrate 37 slewing to target ports now." "01 L2MDT." "15:31 Zulu." "Cell phone linked to moving vehicle." "Stop right up here." "Right up here." "Let me take a look." "I don't see anything." "I'm gonna call him." "call him." "Bassam." "Nizar." "NIZAR:" "Huh?" "NIZAR:" "IR 3.9." "He says he wants one of us to come in." "He is to meet inside the car." "it's in the car." "Nizar." "I'm coming to you." "Do the fuck what I said." "Go." "hey." "Listen to me." "I am not getting my head cut off on the Internet." "shoot me." "Will you shoot me?" "Fuck that shit." "I will shoot you right now." "I'm not kidding." "Quit being a pussy." "Nizar." "Zooming in." "Visual confirmed." "Long wave 10.7." "Shit." "Larry." "She wants the house." "all right?" "sir." "We're getting it." "but I'm not listening." "What the hell are you calling for?" "Hang up the phone." "Hang up the phone." "Are you on the line?" "all right?" "You are attracting attention." "Get the fuck out of here right now." "I will handle this on my own." "Roger that." "Off target." "3-10." "FERRIS" "Yes." "good." "You want an orange?" "You hungry?" "No." "Nizar huh?" "I know too many things." "They prepared me to go outside Iraq." "What do you mean by "outside Iraq"?" "They said they need me to become shahid for martyrdom." "they say martyrdom." "Nizar?" "Hm?" "I don't want to die." "I want to go to America." "you know?" "And they want me They want me to blow myself up." "chemistry?" "No." "What do you know about radiological materials?" "you know?" "Nobody should say "martyr" to me." "Nobody." "I am." "Yes." "Yes." "huh?" "What do you know about our pain?" "all right?" "Give me some information." "What do you know?" "I know enough to be martyred." "I know enough to stay alive." "You have a computer?" "it's me." "up near Samarra." "He's got a communiqué video here that somebody walked across the Iranian border." "sir." "captain." "I am looking at the white whale." "It is Al-Saleem." "What's he saying?" "it's gotta be current." "He mentions the Sheffield bus bombings a week ago." "He's telling the brothers to prepare for a UK operation's already planned which is the bombing these people fucked up in Manchester this morning." "Let me translate this part for you directly." "We will avenge the America wars on the Muslim world." "We will come at them everywhere." "continually." "We have bled." "Now they will bleed." "And bleed." "Until they are bled out." "Ed." "It's 6:00 in the morning." "honey." "Disks are passed from hand to hand." "not copied." "My man says that real orders are verbal or in code on paper." "Is there any indication of where he is?" "sir." "He definitely does not have his location." "near Balad whereAl-Saleemmayhavebeen ." "Dad?" "Hey." "They're killing anyone who knows anything." "He's scared." "We need to debrief him very carefully." "so do it." "In the States." "No." "Ahem." "They're onto him." "That's the reason he's running." "right?" "So he wants to come to America in one piece instead of going to paradise in a thousand." "He should've thought of that before." "Ed." "that's all right because we can be there to see who pulls the trigger." "get back to bed." "Good night." "Am I missing the point?" "I just offered him asylum." "buddy." "So just cut him loose andputhimbackonthestreet ." "All right." "no problem." "No problem." "and then we can go." "no more questions." "Take me to the Green Zone." "Maybe we could help." "We have a few questions." "Everything will be fine." "Trust me." "Okay?" "It's okay." "Sit down." "You're a liar." "You're a liar." "You fucking d" "Get on the fucking Back the fuck up!" "Step back!" "I talk to you!" "I talk to you!" "And that's all you want!" "huh?" "Bassam." "Search him." "Get his phone." "Now you've seen our faces." "You know what that means." "Computer." "Guantanamo?" "You threaten me with Guantanamo?" "If you don't do exactly what I say" "I will execute you right here." "Do you understand?" "okay?" "We're your friends." "We're here to watch you." "We're here to protect you." "You can't even protect yourselves." "I'm right here." "I got a visual on him." "where's he coming from?" "He's riding up right now." "Coming right to us." "Yes." "I see him." "I see him." "He's coming down the street." "He's coming north towards the square." "I'll let you know what he's doing." "Keep an eye on him for me." "He stopped in front of the café." "He's walking right up." "Bassam?" "Yeah?" "There is a black van heading this way with some pretty dangerous-looking guys." "I see it." "Tell me what it does." "All right." "it stopped." "The van stopped." "Can I turn around?" "Nizar's getting on his bike." "There's like four or five guys getting out of that van." "Can you identify any of these guys?" "I've never seen these guys before." "We gotta move." "Did you see a flash?" "What?" "Did somebody get hit?" "Let's see a playback on that." "Stay with him." "I executed him." "You did what you had to do." "he would be describing you down to your eyebrows to them right now." "all right?" "It's done." "I killed him." "He was always gonna get killed no matter what he did." "you'd milked him and he was dry." "Excuse me." "Ferris?" "Is your silence supposed to say something?" "right?" "who you must have had some intense cross-cultural eye contact with who turned out to be a coward who wanted to go to Disneyland." "do you hear me?" "you're not." "You're blown." "There's chatter." "that means you should've sent a team here did you?" "Ferris." "you understand?" "Now." "huh?" "Let's get out of here." "all right?" "right?" "Yep." "Good." "Got you." "Don't you fucking do it." "Hassan!" "Hassan!" "Speck or Nitrate to these coordinates." "16.8 seconds." "14.4 seconds." "a known operational base of an Al-Saleem cell." "on approach." "Aah!" "Get back!" "Come on!" "Gotta go!" "Gotta go!" "I'm getting the intel!" "man!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Go!" "Go!" "I've got guys coming down the hill!" "Two trucks!" "On the right!" "I got it." "Keep moving!" "Fuck." "We're in some serious fucking trouble here." "south of Samarra." "We're being pursued by two vehicles." "We have valuable intel in our possession!" "We're in a black Nissan." "Where the fuck are you people?" "I see them!" "We're right on their six." "will engage." "Copy that." "Engage at will." "RPG." "Take them out now." "Fire!" "RPG!" "one." "Let's go!" "Fuel tank is ruptured!" "I got him!" "Get the driver out!" "I can't!" "He's in pieces!" "Then get the bag!" "Get the intel!" "Bassam!" "Bassam!" "Stay with them." "We are tracking." "Bassam!" "Get his legs!" "No!" "Intel secure!" "Let's go!" "Stay down." "buddy." "now!" "He's dead." "Who are you?" "What's your name?" "Do you know where you are?" "Come on!" "Fuck." "What's that?" "Bone fragments." "Not yours." "They get that stuff I sent out?" "All uploaded to Langley." "Mr. Hoffman." "Ed." "Ferris." "Ed?" "40 pages of that." "about 712 phone numbers that are new to us that we can strip and evaluate a safe house in Amman." "I've got jihadists coming and going from this place like it's happy hour at the Cat House." "You gotta see this place." "Ed." "I didn't know the man." "What are you doing for Bassam's family?" "He was your guy." "huh?" "You'll be going to Amman as acting station chief." "you're the show-runner." "who are as hot for Al-Saleem as we are." "You'll be working with a guy named Hani Salaam who is not your run-of-the-mill fingernail-puller." "Hani is a professional." "And will I be sharing information with him?" "Let me say this about that:" "No." "you wanna take a few weeks off and go bang the wife?" "Ed." "You know that." "You know more about it than I do." "buddy." "Why not you?" "So you'll go to Amman?" "I will go to Amman." "I'll call you later." "This car is a real pile of shit." "Is this the best they could afford?" "you know?" "all right?" "I need a shower and an Internet connection all right?" "Got you in a high-rise." "Hot and cold water." "And you can drink it." "Great." "There's not much local color." "I've had it with the local color." "Thank you." "Cheap-ass motherfuckers." "sir." "He's clear." "NSA is listening to the phones and computer links of anyone who's been near the house." "they don't have to be geniuses to stop using their e-mail and cell phones." "I don't understand why you haven't figured out that they're not communicating electronically anymore." "The house is owned by a family named Alousi." "it just seems like a normal Jordanian family with a lot of country relatives." "Normal Jordanian family." "correct?" "whatever information you got in Iraq" "I just don't think this house is what you think it is." "and right?" "It's Takfir methodology." "Takfir methodology." "Correct." "It's permitted in order to deceive the infidel." "You've had guys watching them go in and out of this safe house here but what I don't get is why you haven't had anyone monitoring them after." "there's so much activity at this location that we have exhausted the station's indigenous-appearing manpower." "So you don't have enough good Arab guys to follow the bad Arab guys is what you're saying." "That's right." "you're gonna need some more human surveillance loaners from Jordanian Intelligence." "get out." "I am in receipt of a directive which tells me that I am to make myself useful to you in whichever way that you request or require." "But it is my feeling that to involve the Jordanian secret service is a breach of operational integrity." "all right?" "my friend." "You've read that directive there which clearly states that I am in charge of this operation." "what I need you to do is leave this office immediately and hand your entire staff over to me." "we've all watched your rise in the Near East Division." "I'll see you on the way down." "You and Hoffman both." "please all right?" "Mr. Ferris" "Mr. Hoffman never told us this would be such a big deal." "Ed Hoffman is the head of the Near East Division." "and that's me." "please stop acting like such a fucking ingénue and try to get me a meeting with Hani Salaam." "Thanks." "Mr. Ferris." "Hani Pasha." "Pasha?" "That is an Ottoman term." "sir." "Pleasure to meet you." "sir." "Welcome to our promising country." "Thank you so much." "As reliable as your Ed Hoffman would call a "towelhead monarchy" can be." "sir." "Mm." "What have you heard about this building?" "I hear they call it the fingernail factory." "of course." "No." "But people are stupid." "Torture doesn't work." "a man will say almost anything to make the pain stop." "I am sure." "here in Jordan the enemy." "Perhaps the worst kind." "Mr. Ferris?" "The dar-al-Harb." "Very good." "yes." "You are smarter than the Americans who are usually sent to Amman." "before you came." "but you respect your elders." "You speak Arabic Mm." "so you are a secret Arab." "Mm." "ahem" "We've recently discovered a large Al-Saleem safe house and training cell here in Amman." "sir." "this is what we know so far." "This is unusual." "Your Ed Hoffman would rather have less information than share with me." "this is not Ed Hoffman." "This is not my predecessor." "have a look." "I have one rule my dear." "Never lie to me." "Understand?" "Never lie to me." "You shall have your agents." "sir." "Agent Ferris is arriving at the site now." "Thank you." "I'll reposition the aircraft." "Slewing to 2.5." "There it is." "That's it." "That's the safe house." "Come on." "What do you wanna do with this guy?" "Just watch." "Watch him and what else?" "Nothing else." "I'm not sure about this GID surveillance." "I've spotted a few so far." "You see the two by the doorway there in front of the safe house?" "There's one more selling radios." "And there's one behind me with a striped shirt." "That's what I've clocked so far." "Who's this?" "Who just sat down?" "That's one of our guys." "One of your guys?" "What do you?" "A station asset." "Zayed Ibishi." "He's one of our contacts from the Palestinian camps." "huh?" "What the fuck is he doing making contact right now?" "And how come I don't know about this?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "they will shut down that house and leave." "He's gonna get that guy killed." "He's gonna blow this whole operation." "Not again." "Fucking Hoffman!" "Oops." "Continue tracking." "Area expanded." "Tracking." "Head him off!" "Head him off!" "Going down the alley." "Adjusting coverage." "Boost image factor." "Switching to SAR." "Stay with sweep." "Hold image?" "Image locked." "Ah!" "Skip." "I got him." "all right?" "goddamn it." "I'm by the clearing." "just look out for me." "take me to a real hospital." "Take me to the embassy." "That's like an hour." "ASAP." "Let's go." "Let's go." "Let's get you vaccinated." "Aisha." "AISHA" "Let me see." "These are not bite wounds." "A snowboarding accident." "Snowboarding." "huh?" "I'm sure it looks that way." "Yeah." "Okay." "Relax." "All right." "Let me" "My father was Iranian." "I live in Amman now." "Okay." "This is going to hurt." "Mm." "I don't like needles." "hm?" "Okay." "This is the first of five anti-rabies injections you'll need over the next month." "You don't need to come back here." "right?" "we're done." "And someone will come to bandage your wounds." "Thank you." "You fucking cocksucker." "How did you expect me to run an operation whenyou'rerunningaside operation which fucks up my own?" "all right?" "I have made promises to Hani Salaam." "Do you understand that?" "Uh-huh." "What's your point?" "all right?" "We have to respect what he wants." "I do respect him." "What kind of thing?" "and you are gonna blow this Amman operation." "I love you." "Bye." "I love you too." "and we'll never hear from them." "Do you understand?" "I'm just trying to back you up." "dangerous world out there." "all right?" "Hani." "I gotta go deal with this Hani bullshit." "whatever." "You ready to go?" "Whatever." "if you would give me an opportunity to ex" "Fortunately the safe house is still there." "you were right." "You made a good decision." "The jihadists believe it was a robbery." "There are many robberies in that district." "my dear." "sir." "Ed Hoffman had" "I have spoken to Mr. Hoffman very sharply." "we will explain the king's espionage laws to his agent." "Hani Pasha." "my dear." "It's a very different thing." "Keep watching." "Tell Edward what you have seen." "Another deadly attack on innocent civilians." "This time in one of Amsterdam's most crowded tourist districts." "The images of the bombing were captured on location surveillance cameras." "The blast felt for miles." "What was once a block-long farmer market vibrant with color isnowin ruinsand coveredwith ash." "The exact number of casualties is not yet known asemergencycrews are still pulling victims from the rubble." "But officials are saying it will certainly be in triple figures." "KLPD antiterror-unit investigators have arrived andareexaminingbombfragments in the hope of determining if this andtheotherrecentbombingsonthe  continent and in the UK are connected." "The consequence of a new bombing will no doubt have a devastating effect onEurope'stouristbusiness." "Let's go now to Amsterdam's chief of police." "We will do whatever we can to keep everyone safe foryouto liveeveryday without being afraid." "But we must be realistic." "deadly and persistent." "sir." "Good morning." "Where are we going?" "We are going fishing." "Get in." "Since no credit was claimed for the bombing we believe it to be the work of Al-Saleem." "That's his signature." "Anonymity." "what we need is May I say we?" "Of course." "As long as we keep it between us." "We need a man inside the Amman cell." "We do." "Yes." "And we shall have the man we need." "How's that?" "Because you gave him to me." "His name is Mustafa Karami." "I've known him since he was a teenager sellingboomboxes from the back of a stolen truck." "Now he's al Qaeda." "In my country." "my dear." "Watch and learn." "KARAMI:" "You did not think to tell Hani Salaam you are a jihadist?" "hm?" "No longer a thief." "Can it be true?" "Here." "Take the phone." "Take it and talk to your mother." "Talk." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello." "His mother was in the Palestinian camps." "Now she has a fine apartment and a beautiful garden." "She can watch the sun set over the hills." "even a television set." "that she always knew he would be a success even when he was a little boy in the refugee camps." "And now he has sent her money." "She is glad he is no longer mixed up with the radicals." "Mustafa." "You have done none of these things for her." "But you should have." "A mother is worth more than anything they have told you." "you will be better in the future because we have sent her many gifts and we have told her these gifts come from her son." "HANI:" "Continue your life with your brothers in al Qaeda." "We will devise a way to talk." "Come." "come." "up." "Go." "to swim where he naturally swims to learn what he naturally learns and see how long he remembers my benevolence." "And what if he forgets?" "I remind him that I have the power of life and death over him" "I can let them know he works for me." "Hm." "Ed?" "So tell me about Hani's guy." "the guy on the bike." "play tennis?" "Ed." "and we need results now becauseotherwiseIwillbeunhappy." "Insa."" "What does that mean?" "is what it means." "boy." "All right?" "Nobody knows where the next bomb is going off." "There's 75 dead in Amsterdam." "buddy" "Hani does not trust you." "Arabs will only help you if they trust you." "you understand?" "moving here?" "I don't care about cultural insecurity issues." "I don't care if Hani trusts me or not." "What he will do is he will thank me in the long run." "Fuck." "Hold on." "Hold on." "you're home." "you scared the shit out of me." "They say that you should never drink red wine in the desert." "right?" "a couple of bottles of that and we'll be speaking Babylonian." "So how was your flight?" "it was fine." "It was fine." "Yeah." "I watched that Poseidon." "I see you've made yourself at home." "In the words of the great Sam Snead:" "you're just not concentrating." "My dear." "Jesus Christ." "Come on." "Hani Pasha." "Thank you for your time." "Please." "I'm gonna need a piece of this guy you got here in this Amman cell." "Don't look at buddy." "Buddy didn't say nothing." "right?" "Please." "don't say no before I say anything." "Just let me say what I've come here to say." "Thank you." "You have done an incredible job developing this guy Karoobi." "Katoomi." "Karami." "Karami." "we develop these assets to use them as needed." "And I have a need." "No." "Edward?" "Because we have a partnership." "You have something that I need that will help me and you won't allow that to happen." "And I'm trying to impress upon you a sense of urgency." "Urgency does not call for changing methods that work for methods that do not work." "who pays the bills around here?" "I would hate to have to have my president call your king." "Because that's just gonna be embarrassing for all of us." "you are speaking to the king." "Is that right?" "Mm." "I want control." "As a favor to the United States." "You can't have it." "but it would not be the truth." "they remain secret forever." "you are incapable of secrecy because you are a democracy." "I know my business." "have I?" "you have not." "Are you sure you wanna make this the first time?" "you're missing the point." "he doesn't know anything." "That is not the way the organization operates." "I will ask him what he knows when it is time." "are you happy?" "I'm getting there." "you guys might have invented algebra but we're the guys that found out how to use it." "I presume you know who that is?" "It's a recent photograph of Al-Saleem." "did you?" "that's yours." "You can keep that because we're partners." "okay?" "Now's the time for some reciprocity." "You need to give me Karami." "Insa." "Too fucking bad." I know what that means." "hm?" "Ed?" "he's bright." "But he's also arrogant." "That's gonna be his undoing." "right?" "buddy." "Jesus Christ." "You have a recent photograph of Al-Saleem." "Ed?" "What the hell else are you holding back from me?" "What do you wanna know?" "what's his real name?" "Kareem Al-Shams." "His birthplace?" "Syria." "Hama." "Background?" "his loving middle-class family got killed by Hafez Assad sohemovedtoSaudiArabia." "then here in Amman." "Post-graduate study at the University of North Carolina." "He's a Tar Heel like you." "he prides himself on his humility and not having to take the credit." "Yet this is the same man who will go on videotape with his brothers describingwhathe 'sdone and what's gonna come." "His is a false humility." "It's a false modesty." "more dangerous." "And that is his weakness." "is just get that fucker on the phone." "Ed?" "Yeah." "huh?" "Don't try to flip him or anything like that." "Hani will throw me out." "I promise you that." "This operation will be over." "You cannot trust Hani." "Am I clear?" "You're clear." "Good." "You and I gotta get drunk because I need to sleep on the plane." "I have to take the kids to The Lion King." "Again." "Never have kids." "yeah." "Don't Don't touch Karami." "All right." "Never." "That's Karami." "We're on." "Get the van." "Move the fucking van!" "go!" "Fuck!" "I thought I told you you could get this at any clinic." "And you should have had your injection yesterday." "You weren't on duty yesterday." "right?" "I'm not a doctor." "The same thing." "You don't change." "Wife." "I don't have a ring." "but you did last week." "Ah." "So you noticed?" "Bad husband." "I was a bad husband." "And she was an even worse wife which is why we're divorced now." "It's over." "huh?" "Something as different from her as you can find." "Something close to impossible." "We're done." "Till next week." "May I?" "Yes." "I was wondering if maybe you wanted to have a conversation sooner than next week." "later this afternoon if that wouldn't make you uncomfortable." "for you and me to be able to do that first we would have to have a conversation about the proper way to have a conversation." "where I'm going this afternoon would make you more uncomfortable than me." "I doubt that." "I don't." "WOMAN" "If you're trying to figure out how far I'll go in order to express my interest" "I think you have the answer." "Do I?" "Mm." "What else are you supposed to do at this point?" "Leave here alone?" "You're safer with me and you know it." "What are you asking?" "I'm asking what you do here." "I'm a political adviser." "Who snowboards in Amman." "yeah." "an important one." "A man is not his job." "he's apart from his job." "The man." "I understand." "my" "My understanding of you." "thank you." "You're welcome." "Aisha?" "of course." "Where did you learn to speak Arabic like this?" "we are friends." "We may talk again." "We may." "thank you." "He's my friend." "It's fine." "It's fine." "You sure?" "It's fine." "What's this all about?" "Marwan showed you the burning house?" "Do you know what happened?" "I have absolutely no idea." "you could have said to me yes or no." "Simply that." "then I begin to wonder." "Hani." "We had the advantage." "That house could have led us to Al-Saleem." "Now it is gone." "Everything inside it is gone." "I" "I told you never to lie to me." "Hani." "after everything I said to you that he tried to take Karami?" "He did not know." "I will look at you." "Now I am talking to Mr. Ferris." "So in as few words as possible did you know?" "No." "I don't believe you." "You have 12 hours to leave Jordan." "I will not be responsible for your safety." "Do you understand me?" "you knew you needed to adapt to this environment." "I" "Ferris!" "Ferris!" "buddy." "Back from the sandbox?" "Enjoying civilization?" "You wanna get a hot dog?" "when you're keeping all the cards?" "Ed." "Patience." "Not as a personal quality I don't care." "and you can't do it?" "You're too power hungry and greedy." "You fucked this whole operation up!" "I thought Hani wanted to kill me!" "don't exaggerate." "Hani don't want to kill you." "He likes you." "He likes you a lot." "And who is he gonna get over there better for him than you?" "Nobody." "Don't worry." "You're gonna be back in Jordan before you know it." "Back with your Jordanian piece of poontang but I do." "Ed?" "for chrissakes." "I did what I had to do." "Patience and sit around eating couscous." "Hani's interests extend only to his own little fiefdom." "Mine are global." "having said that from an operational standpoint brought you into what I was doing." "Exactly." "and you know that." "I could've beat the crap out of you." "Should've taken the shot when you had the chance." "Maybe I should've." "Can't do it now." "with or without the cooperation of Hani is get our own man inside Al-Saleem's tent." "We could penetrate every goddamn Salafi mosque in the world and still not even get close." "right?" "What?" "he doesn't know what we can't do." "He doesn't know how close or how far we are." "He doesn't know what's true or what isn't." "Osama fed Zarqawi to the dogs right?" "Right." "What if instead of tracking Al-Saleem like we're doing right now with absolutely no results we make it appear that there is another terrorist operation out there just as effective as his own?" "how would Al-Saleem react to that kind of challenge to his stats?" "What would he do?" "He would get paranoid." "He might rejoice." "Maybe both." "Exactly." "right?" "Right." "Which would be us." "That would be us." "You're a devious SOB." "sir." "Garland." "Roger Ferris." "Pleased to meet you." "Where's Hoffman?" "I don't know." "Ben  Jerry's." "He trusts you." "I don't trust him." "Every time we run an operation and I don't see Hoffman it means he's running another operation." "Coffee?" "please." "Black." "Thank you." "thanks." "they were in Damascus." "Dayr Az-Zawr and the Iraqi border." "But something tells me they won't make it to Hasbaya." "We have ninjas waiting." "Who do these ninjas work for?" "Me." "Shall we?" "So where is everyone?" "Absolutely no idea what you mean." "What?" "You mean it's just you?" "No." "It's me and you." "Did you think there'd be some war room with lights flashing and people with clipboards?" "it's all here and here and here." "And here." "Sure you won't have a strawberry?" "They're really delicious." "I'm positive." "all right?" "No one too extreme." "Picture somewhere in between Osama and Oprah." "You get my drift?" "a lawyer." "all right?" "A businessman." "Someone who fits the role of jihadist without actually being jihadist." "A straw man." "making plans." "That kind of thing." "no." "No." "No." "Hang on." "There you go." "Second from the top." "Omar Sadiki." "He's Jordanian." "He's an architect." "Most of his commissions are from charitable Islamic groups who then give money to the jihadists." "So he ticks all the jihadist boxes except he's innocent." "So he touches his head to the floor five times a day." "He believes in God." "So why would he trade with an infidel like myself?" "Money." "Mr. Sadiki." "Mr. Sadiki." "it's Brad Scanlon from Hayes Andover Bank." "I'm following up on my email." "Yeah." "I got into Dubai a little bit early." "but I can meet you anywhere." "fantastic." "Anything else to know?" "Exactly as we discussed." "I'm cool with that." "Tony." "boss." "Mr. Sadiki." "Yeah." "Hayes Andover's option to buy this property is gonna expire by the end of the month." "We're hoping to get some sketches and a bid next Thursday before the Islamic weekend." "I think certainly." "Hm." "You'll also have to sign a letter of intent with Mr. Al-Masri if that's okay with you." "Makes no difference to me." "Great." "Allah will decide if I get the job or not." "Fantastic." "Mr. Al-Masri?" "Mr. Omar Sadiki." "please." "Thank you." "Al-Masri is a lawyer we found with al Qaeda ties." "but he is on the map enoughforaphotograph to suggest Sadiki's guilt by association." "Mm-hm." "You have his computer?" "I'm gonna go get it right now." "He's going to the Cyclone Club." "He loves the Russian girls." "I'll call you soon." "Call you soon." "Three-sixteen." "baby." "Garland?" "Yeah?" "Stand by." "All right?" "Just getting in right now." "Ah." "This is useful." "Very useful." "I have an e-mail list of the members of the Brothers of Awareness." "The Brothers of who-the-fuck?" "The Ikhwan Ishfan." "They're just a study group of believers at his local mosque." "But I can make it look like anything." "huh?" "make fake accounts for half a dozen of the brothers andstarttransferringmoneytothem from Sadiki's fake receiver account." "Just small operational sums." "Okay." "and everything they pick up" "They'll leak to the jihadists." "my friend." "It's coming up." "Now it's done." "Dad!" "Dad!" "baby." "Hold on." "Oh." "you there?" "Where are you?" "Dubai International." "I'm on my way back." "you're not." "You're going back to Amman." "asked where you were." "Jesus Christ." "he's gonna wonder why you didn't go back." "buddy." "Change your ticket." "Ed." "I'm on my way." "All right." "hey." "Can I get that for you?" "Thank you." "Mr. Ferris." "Welcome." "Thank you." "Come." "I wanted to see you to tell you I was sorry how we left things." "sir." "I apologize for what happened." "But I am happy you are back." "will be happy you are back." "we're not watching you." "We're watching out for you." "you cannot afford any more mistakes in Jordan." "This is a part of the world where friendship matters." "It can save your life." "Why don't I call you back in about 15 minutes with all the information?" "Mr. Sadiki." "all right?" "I'm not tolerating any more of your bullshit." "it's cool." "Who do you work for?" "good." "Front?" "Back?" "Take my bag." "If you're going to insist on coming here to see me which is what you're doing my sister's going to want to meet you." "Your sister?" "my sister looks after me in matters that are non-medical." "so she has to approve of me before you will begin to." "whenever I can." "Okay." "Hi." "Hi." "I'm still cooking." "pastry." "the kids are going to love it." "The kids?" "Yeah." "Aha." "Come." "Cala." "Mr. Ferris." "Yousef and Rowley." "Hello." "Yousef." "Rowley." "Hey." "Hi." "Hi." "my nephews." "huh?" "It's not good." "It's not good?" "not really." "Oh." "What kind of food do you like?" "Hamburgers." "You?" "Spaghettis." "Me too." "would you two let me know?" "Okay." "Yeah." "Cool." "Mr. Ferris how long are you in Amman?" "ahem." "anyway." "Where were you stationed before?" "Riyadh." "Riyadh?" "Hm." "What do you do exactly?" "he's a political adviser." "Political adviser." "But what does that mean?" "Forgive my ignorance." "uh It means that I" "I offer my assistance to His Majesty's advisers whenever they ask." "not before the war." "Before you didn't consult with us at all." "we are just having lunch." "It's okay." "It's okay." "We can talk" "I'm talking with your friend." "Talk about another subject." "It's quite all right." "I understand." "And we understand that the situation in Iraq has created many hardships for the Jordanian people." "the war." "he says the situation." "What do you mean?" "You know what" "Please." "the assassination of Iraqi police the crowded marketplaces and innocent families that have been wiped off the face of the Earth." "That's what I mean by the situation in Iraq." "I can tell you what His Majesty's thinking." "His Majesty believes the best hope for the war is that it ends." "I can tell you that is my hope as well." "I hope so too." "Huh?" "Cala?" "Hey." "Peace." "huh?" "Okay." "Enjoy." "Thank you." "so am I." "I was a guest in your home." "you know?" "She suffered a lot during Iran-Iraq war." "And the funny thing is that she wants to live in America." "yeah?" "Yeah." "tell her I'll switch passports with her." "It'll make us both happy." "Don't joke about these kind of things." "I'm not joking." "I'm perfectly serious." "I may stay here forever." "Really." "I'm glad I made friends with her boys." "I like them a lot." "aren't they?" "you know?" "Neither are you." "What do you mean?" "you know?" "Oh." "So you noticed." "All right." "I'm busted." "for inviting me in your home." "Um" "Sorry." "me too." "Thank you for coming." "Thank you." "The photograph was taken last week in the Cyclone Club in Dubai." "a lawyer if that's not a contradiction in terms." "The other is a Jordanian." "An architect named Omar Sadiki." "No known terrorist ties." "is what are they doing together?" "Is this Sadiki more than he claims to be?" "He travels a lot." "He builds mosques and shopping malls." "he bears examination by us." "Or by we." "Hm." "Where'd you get these?" "A friend in Saudi Intelligence." "Mm." "huh?" "keep it." "I want you to have it." "no?" "Why would we not want to help each other?" "Right." "Thank you." "Garland." "Yeah?" "you ready?" "Okay." "strike that." "In the name of God the merciful wepraiseourbrothers who shall carry out thisheroicactinthefigorchard and beg God to give us strength for our continuing struggle." "The time is at hand." "All right?" "but what the fuck is the fig orchard?" "I can't let you in on that yet." "Let's just say it's developing." "It'll create chatter to get his attention." "it'll be big." "send that off from Sadiki's fake e-mail address andweareinbusiness." "Okay." "Done." "Advise when you're on the deck." "Mr. Sadiki." "It's Brad Scanlon." "I'm fine." "Thanks so much for asking." "But we've got a bit of a problem." "who's based out of Ankara he's raised some issues about the insulation." "I realize it's the same stuff that you use in Saudi Arabia but he's asked to meet with you immediately." "sir." "He cannot fly up to see you." "And the only time he can meet is tomorrow afternoon." "we have a car ready to pick you up in about and a plane ticket to Turkey waiting for you at the airport." "sir." "First class was not available." "Sadiki just landed in Turkey." "He's being met by one of our guys." "An engineer to discuss business and to show him a good time." "All we need is to establish that he is there." "the barracks at the base havebeenclearedout ofallpersonnel." "Bodies from the morgue have been brought in." "They'll be our so-called casualties." "Garland will send out a message from Sadiki hinting that a strike is prepared." "And when the strike is done he'll post another message taking responsibility for our little event." "You got that?" "Uh-huh." "After that hopefully a buzz of messages will then pass among jihadists' networks announcingtheBrothersofAwareness as a new player." "And our Sadiki as its leader." "You got that?" "Ferris." "Thank you." "you have a go." "We have a special report." "Turkey." "Officials have confirmed the target of the blast to be the U.S. Air Base" "Turkey." "The bomb ripped through the Bachelor Officers' Quarters quickly engulfing it in flames." "No one yet has claimed responsibility for the attack." "But terror experts are already speculating this is the work of a new muchmoresophisticatedand much better financed offshoot of al Qaeda thanthatwhichisresponsible for the bombings" "London and other European cities." "In contrast to these recent bombings thisisthefirstattack to occur on American property." "The Pentagon Honey." "willnotreleasethe namesofthedead until notification of next of kin." "We're also being told that there may never be a public announcement" "Honey." "ofthelistofcasualties since some of the men killed mayhavebeenstationedatIncirlik on classified missions." "has served since September the 11 th asa primaryhubinthewars in Afghanistan and Iraq." "now send out the message taking credit." "But make the responses go back to Sadiki's actual account." "You got that?" "Okay." "but you know what I mean." "Yeah." "AL-SALEEM" "SADIKI:" "little buddy." "Well done." "You did it." "NSA 's picking up all kinds of chatter." "Haven't heard for years." "One voice on a world phone out of Vienna sounds a lot like Al-Saleem himself." ""Who the damn heck is Omar Sadiki?"" "Ed." "I'm bringing him in." "that's who." "no." "they are gonna torture him and they are gonna kill him." "not hangers." "Ed." "I'm bringing him in." "Ferris." "Okay?" "Ferris." "all right?" "You got me?" "Omar." "It's Brad Scanlon." "We need to have a conversation." "Come on." "What are you doing here?" "open the door!" "Let's go!" "listen to me!" "Omar!" "Omar!" "go!" "Fuck!" "This is Roger Ferris." "I need an ambulance." "LIEUTENANT:" "Yeah." "Sadiki is dead." "You there?" "I'm here." "buddy." "Ed." "I did." "that's just not constructive." "Okay?" "Then what is?" "Doing exactly what you're doing." "And how are you measuring that?" "By how much closer you've gotten to Al-Saleem?" "didn't it?" "That's right." "then where is Al-Saleem?" "Hm?" "Ferris." "You know what?" "I've had it." "I've had it." "I can't do this anymore." "you can." "you just get yourself a couple of hours' sleep." "And call me when you're thinking straight." "all right?" "because you're a million fucking miles away." "every day." "And I see the unnecessary travesties of this war thattherestofyoubackstabbing political fucking bureaucrats onlylookat picturesof." "So don't you dare tell me I am not fucking thinking straight!" "all right?" "It's not working." "I'm out." "Ferris?" "Ferris?" "I should pack." "Fuck." "Fuck!" "Shit!" "Move the fucking car!" "Where's Marwan?" "Marwan?" "Mr. Ferris." "Please." "all right?" "Okay." "Please?" "Please excuse me." "What is it?" "I invented Omar Sadiki." "all right?" "and then I lost him." "That is impossible." "Why?" "Because it will mean that you sat in my office and you lied to my face." "all right?" "But they have kidnapped a friend of mine in order to get to me." "Hani." "all right?" "her for me." "You lied to me." "I will not help you." "Hani." "Hani." "Hani!" "Ed." "You should've told me about the girl." "We could've watched her." "They left the phone." "I know how this goes." "They've got Aisha and they want someone." "right?" "they want you to think so." "That's the good part." "And what's the bad part?" "They know about you." "They know you work for the agency." "That tells me two things." "the people that have Aisha are running the show so they're close to Al-Saleem." "they have learned enough from Aisha to know she's your pal." "She's been interrogated." "Goddamn it." "right?" "Right." "Right." "I have." "Why would you do that?" "I have to trust everyone I can right now." "All you gotta do is trust me." "Ma'alesh."" "he's not gonna help." "we're gonna do it right." "It's not just about you and your girlfriend." "All right." "This is Roger Ferris." "Will you put Aisha on the phone?" "mister." "Thanks God you are calling." "I have a question to make sure you are you." "Please." "Fine." "Where do you meet Miss Aisha first time?" "At a medical clinic in Amman." "She's a nurse." "Where do you take Miss Aisha for dinner first time?" "go." "Uh" "I didn't." "She invited me to her apartment for dinner." "Did you bring anything?" "I did." "A dessert pastry." "you must go where I say." "Trade you for her." "No trick or Miss Aisha will die." "Tell me where I'm to go." "I'll tell you where to go." "It is near the border." "Highway 15." "Between Al-Saidi and Mahbrouk." "That's where you go." "Bye." "Passport." "Bring up Pacman feed." "Increase magnification eight time." "Eight-time mag." "Enhance resolution." "500" "Still holding for vector angle." "Still holding for vector angle." "Switching over to SAR." "Which one do you want us to follow?" "sir?" "Sir?" "buddy." "CIA." "I am not the sheik." "is the sheik who always was." "I am his servant." "Where is the girl?" "Either you're trying to be clever or someone has done to you what you so often do to them." "Lie." "So you paid for me?" "Hm?" "Not as much as I would have." "Such a bargain for such a catch as you." "because no one's gonna negotiate with you for me." "right?" "but not because you say so." "I have an agent of the CIA." "And that's what I came to see." "And that's what matters." "In this world there's enough poverty and frustration and anger and passion." "There will never be a shortage of martyrs." "huh?" "These men who are dispensable to you." "These men who blow themselves up in the name of Allah huh?" "There is no place in the Koran for the murder of innocent people and suicide." "You know that." "It's a good try." "no?" "hm?" "But are you pure or are you just as corrupt as the capitalist Westerners that you despise?" "you are fucking slaves." "You're slaves to the Saudi oil sheiks and the Wahabi oil money that funds you." "my friends you will all fucking disappear into the ashes of history." "Mr. Ferris." "I see you're not going to read what is prepared for you on paper." "It's all right." "I already have." "You know what that camera is for?" "It's not for this." "This This is intermission." "It's for what comes after this." "For what comes now." "Kareem." "But you paid who for me?" "An intermediary who works for who?" "You don't know who and that should concern you." "that's what surprises me." "I thought you were a lot smarter than that." "Someone has betrayed you." "He works for the head of Jordanian Intelligence which means he works for us which means Which means you work for us." "I work for you." "Are you comfortable?" "Can I make you more comfortable?" "Kareem." "I'm not lying to you." "We know We know where you are!" "Where am I?" "You You You are in the light." "The light is on you." "Look at it." "no." "motherfucker." "Mr. Ferris?" "Do you think the cavalry is coming for you?" "Let's wait." "Nobody's coming for you." "Welcome to Guantanamo." "God!" "Fuck!" "MAN" "MEN:" "MARWAN:" "You can tell who cares about you the most by who comes first to visit you in the hospital." "And I believe I am the first." "because nobody knows where you are." "Yeah." "Hani?" "in Amman." "So it was your man I spoke to on the phone your men who took Aisha your men who dropped me off in the desert." "I admit." "But it was not me that picked you up in the desert." "Edward could not find you." "all his money and joie de vivre." "did I do it?" "Karami." "Very good." "You remember him?" "Hani." "He was in the fucking room with me." "He was in the room because I put him there." "I'm just sorry I wasn't there a few minutes sooner." "Hani?" "I shudder to think." "huh?" "not at all." "The room we messed up after we took her." "bullshit!" "All right." "We tested that blood!" "All right?" "It was hers!" "She is a nurse." "She gives blood every month." "let go of the jacket." "Thank you." "Hani?" "which I admit was not very much because these are matters of state security." "So she doesn't know anything about what happened?" "She knows what everybody who knows me knows." "That I am an exceedingly polite gentleman and a very good conversationalist." "Huh." "Hani" "I almost died in that goddamn room." "I would have told her what you did for her." "And she She would have loved you forever." "Whereas now you are going to have to earn that right." "That's great news." "Hani." "Really." "Excellent." "right?" "my dear." "And I presume he's not giving you any information." "Not yet." "buddy." "You're gonna come back." "I got you a corner office just down the hall from mine." "it's all yours." "a fancy title." "unless you really want it." "Ed?" "Right down the hall from me." "I think we both know you'd be more comfortable without me there." "because I'll take that as a slight." "Hm." "what else are you gonna do?" "Stay here?" "why wouldn't I?" "Why would you?" "What if I like the Middle East?" "buddy." "There's nothing here to like." "Hmm." "Ed?" "Hm." "buddy." "you're the best I got." "And you know it hurts me to say that." "Ed." "huh?" "You're not safe here." "I'm not safe anywhere." "you know what that means." "What does that mean?" "That means you're giving up on America." "Ed?" "you have a safe flight home." "Say hey to the wife and kids." "Ferris." "What's he doing?" "Nothing." "Buying vegetables." "sir?" "What do you want us to do?" "Are we staying with him?" "No." "Buddy's done." "He's all by himself." "Copy that." "Cleared off target." "Subtitles ßy MühàmmáÐ Ü§mâñ"