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Therefore worthy of passing on up the chain, Griezman decided. Two could play the cover-your-a*s game. But passing on to where? The American consulate, of course. Partly as a tweak about the bullying behavior. Why would an American invite an Arab to a bar like that? The invitation certainly couldn’t have been the other way around. It couldn’t have been the Middle Easterner’s first choice of venue. What had been the purpose?
But mostly he passed it on because an American was talking to an Arab. All of a sudden they were very interested in things like that. There were brownie points to be earned. There were careers to be built.
He tossed the paragraph into the space labeled U.S. Consulate Hamburg, where it was also the only entry of the day.
Theaella and Neagley set up in the control c
