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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 8heart out to her about how unhappy she was, how her husbandhad no drive to succeed, how she had come from an affluentfamily and was tired <strong>of</strong> having to use her own money to live on,and — bingo — how she was going home to Iraq in two weeksbecause her mother was having major surgery. This would leaveher husband alone and even more vulnerable."Jacqueline," posing as a student from a good family in southernFrance and selling perfume to earn extra spending money, wasextremely sympathetic to Samira's plight. Although her initial taskwas simply to identify the woman, this particular success wasindisputable. In surveillance, each minute detail is reported aftereach stage back to the safe house, where the team digests theinformation and plans the next step. This usually means hours <strong>of</strong>interrogation, <strong>of</strong> going over and over each detail, tempers <strong>of</strong>tenrising as various people debate the significance <strong>of</strong> a particularaction or phrase. Team members chain-smoke and main-linec<strong>of</strong>fee, and the atmosphere inside a safe house grows more tenseas each hour passes.And so it was decided that since Dina (Jacqueline) had struck achord with Samira, this happy turn <strong>of</strong> events could be used toexpedite matters. Her next task would be to get the woman out <strong>of</strong>the apartment twice — once so that the team could determine thebest place for a listening device, the second time to install it. Thatmeant coming in and taking photos, measurements, paint chips,everything needed to guarantee that an exact replica <strong>of</strong> an itemcould be produced, but with a bug implanted in it. Like all thingsthe Mossad does, the criterion is always to minimize risk.During the original visit, Samira had complained about herproblems with finding a good local hairdresser to do somethingabout the color <strong>of</strong> her hair. When Jacqueline returned with themerchandise two days later (this time shortly before Halim wasdue home, so that she could see what he looked like) she toldSamira about her own fashionable Left Bank hairdresser."I told Andrê about you, and he said he'd love to work on

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