The older agent chuckled when he began to flick through the
book.
“I tell you sweetheart, people underline things in books
that reinforce their world view.”
“Is that so?” she said, holding her tongue.
“Give me a day and I’ll have him on a platter.” he
continued, nodding at the young, rather bewildered looking man sitting in the interview
room. He glanced at the book in his hand.
“See? Look at these words he’s underlined. Globalisation. Discrimination.
Blasphemy. Colonialism. This guy is clearly a terrorist, here to attack America.”
“Or…” she said, holding up a dog-eared, heavily bookmarked
translation dictionary.
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