boss is extremely angry! Just after I got this cable about an hour ago and just before you came into my office with that dancer, I got a call from Fazzi and he is not at all pleased. He demanded that we report to him tomorrow afternoon, at his home. He was, however, kind enough to tell me to be ready to explain why we felt it necessary to run another check on his future son-in-law. I tried to explain, but he was livid on the subject. No one but no one is to investigate or interfere with Sgt. Benson or the Worthington family ever again without his written permission. Joseph, in particular is to be treated as his adopted son, which he intends to do as soon as he converts to Islam.”

“I'll bet he even knows about Dina.” Hassan said.

“We must assume that he knows everything and if we don't want our families to be sent to martyr training school - we had better have some good answers for him.”

“Why didn't you let me get the rest of the tape Dina had? If the pervert and Joseph are lovers, we could have used it to perhaps bribe or black mail Joseph.” Hassan inquired. “I bet it is a real hot tape.”

“It most likely is extremely hot. But using it to blackmail Joseph? I don't think so! Not as a single young male in the army! He would most likely want to order copies to sell or give to all his Army buddies. It might serve as proof that he was not gay, if the army ever were to charge him as such. He would make sure that everyone saw it. It would add another notch to his pistol. Even more likely he would find a way of using it in one those damn classes of his on Arab culture and/or Arab sexual practices!” Alli jested. “Forget that fucking tape. There is a more important thing that I have to do first. A bad blunder that I made must be corrected as soon as possible. I have to debug his damn car. All that bastard Fazzi needs to find out is that I've been bugging his son and I'll be back in that small village where I was born digging vegetables out of the ground with my bare hands, if I'm lucky.”

“You bugged him???”

“Yes damn it. I thought it would be useful to be able to find out where and with whom he met in the next few days.” Alli said. “I know where he will be parking his car tonight and I will remove it myself tonight. I realize now that it was not a good idea to place a bug on the car in the first place.”

“Why is that?”

“Monday morning, or whenever he returns to base, he might have had to pass through their security and they would have discovered it anyway.” Alli said. “That would have been a disaster. They would start asking too many questions and who knows what they would have come up with. This might have brought in the FBI and then Fazzi-might have been compromised. Anyway I will remove it tonight.”

“Why not have a technician do it?”

“Because I want to make sure it has been done and I don't trust them to do it right.” Allie said. “Now let's figure out what we are going to tell Fazzi tomorrow.”
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