Sari Abu Amineh How mind boggling. Mrs Muntaha said that her son Walid, or al-Walid as she calls him, might come here. Then she warned me to watch out for him. And her warning was directed at me and the Basha. She actually threatened us with her son. I went to her to deliver a strong message from the Basha, and she ended up giving me a stronger one to deliver to him. Could Uroub’s prophecy come true at the hands of this sixty-year-old woman, Muntaha al-Rayyeh, who I’d searched for for such a long time? What was there to stop her from seeking her son’s help? Most likely she called him from time to time. I was almost certain she was in contact with him in some way or another. She was his mother after all, and he was her son, and a mother cannot be completely cut off from her son for ten

