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ABDULLAH AMAR and Bashir Sharif were Syrian born veterans of several terrorist operations throughout the Middle East and Europe by the time they were in their mid-twenties. Minimally educated in Damascus Madrassas, where they were thoroughly indoctrinated in Wahhabi dogma by a series of zealous mullahs, both men were ideal al-Sahaba foot soldiers. They would eagerly give their lives in support of the Pan-Islamic movement, were they asked to do so. In their minds, there could be no higher calling than to be shahid, or martyred in the service of Allah.
When there was dirty work to be done, Amar and Sharif were the operatives to whom Ahmed Khalid turned most often. It was these two who had taken care of the snooping old bank regulator, Paul Trotter, who was dead within
