* * * * * 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 her to take her mother’s family name: Hamaty. In her late teens she was sent to live with an uncle in Amman, Jordan. Then in 1998, when she was twenty-one, since she was fluent in both Arabic and French, al-Qa’ida recruited her, getting her a Jordanian passport
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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. And so, dear reader, why the history lesson? That’s a good question and here’s the answer. On Halloween, 31 st October 2001, 14 days after my gunfight at the Parc 55 Hotel, I found myself in a hospital bed, cranked up to a sitting position, as I read the San F