Maybe he didn't speak English? Or maybe he just didn't
speak it well.
Mandi stood in front of the camera long enough to introduce herself as Mary
Winston of WNN and introduce Hamad Marjeel according to what he'd written on a
sheet of hotel stationery, then she stepped aside and let him have center stage.
Marjeel began reading from a prepared speech that dragged on for a good
twenty minutes. It was full of catchwords and phrases dear to the hearts of
America-bashers everywhere, but it also contained quite a bit of Islamic
religious rhetoric.
He started the speech conversationally enough in firm tones, but soon he
began to sound a bit strident, and by the time he hit the third or fourth page,
he sounded a helluva lot like Adolf Hitler, almost ranting at the camera.
The speech ended rather abruptly and Marjeel seemed to compose himself in
silence for some moments before saying, "Now it is time to prove yet again to
the Great Satan America that we are not only willing to kill, we are willing to
die."
He'd barely begun to turn toward the bed when Cade let up on the camera's
trigger, again whacked the side of the camera, and said, "Hey, wait one.
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