Skinner's Rules
“‘Hello, Bob. About that supplementary question you asked me. It was a cracker.
‘I threw that name at all the Arab watchers, and one of them all but shit himself. It seems that your man Ali Tarfaz is very heavy duty indeed; only you’re right, he is dead.
‘The way the story goes, Ali Tarfaz was an intelligence operative. He was planted in the UK as a student around 1980 and did well for himself. He was moved on to West Germany, and then to Brussels. Then, the story goes, in 1987 a few middle-rank...ing soldiers hatched a plot to overthrow the government. It failed. Saddam, as you might expect, was not best pleased. Not a nice man when annoyed. The plotters were all strung up on poles and left to rot. The intelligence community, which was said to have been in on it, was heavily purged. And among those shot was one Ali Tarfaz.
‘Now this is where the story becomes legend. After the blood had been mopped up, Saddam appointed a sort of supremo, with powers of command over the military, and over all intelligence operations, everywhere.MoreLess
‘I threw that name at all the Arab watchers, and one of them all but shit himself. It seems that your man Ali Tarfaz is very heavy duty indeed; only you’re right, he is dead.
‘The way the story goes, Ali Tarfaz was an intelligence operative. He was planted in the UK as a student around 1980 and did well for himself. He was moved on to West Germany, and then to Brussels. Then, the story goes, in 1987 a few middle-rank...ing soldiers hatched a plot to overthrow the government. It failed. Saddam, as you might expect, was not best pleased. Not a nice man when annoyed. The plotters were all strung up on poles and left to rot. The intelligence community, which was said to have been in on it, was heavily purged. And among those shot was one Ali Tarfaz.
‘Now this is where the story becomes legend. After the blood had been mopped up, Saddam appointed a sort of supremo, with powers of command over the military, and over all intelligence operations, everywhere.MoreLess
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