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                                                              *     *     *     *     *     Henriett Hamaty at the al-Qa’ida training camp, Tarnak Farms, Afghanistan.      Fred rummaged through his thick file, and subsequently pulled out a dossier bearing a photo of Danielle.  After scanning it for a couple of minutes, Fred cleared his throat, and started his narrative.  ”Right...first of all her name wasn’t Danielle.  She was born Henriette Hamaty , in 1977, at the West Bank to a radical French father and Palestinian mother...both Mom and Dad being heavily involved with Hamas.   But before they could marry, Dad was killed conducting a Hamas seaborne night-raid of Tel Aviv, in 1992, when their daughter was fifteen; prompting h...
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             *     *     *     *     * Flag of New Spain 1776 .       The Presidio of San Francisco (originally,  El Presidio Real de San Francisco  or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former  U.S. Army  military fort on the northern tip of the  San Francisco Peninsula .    F rom 17th September 1776, it had been a fortified location, when  New Spain  established the  presidio  to gain a foothold in  Alta California  and the  San Francisco Bay .        Then it passed to Mexico, and in turn passed to the United States in 1848.  On 1 st October 1994, it was transferred to the  National Park Service , ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed commercial and public use.     ...