Hunt The Wind

                                                              *     *     *     *     *     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

             *     *     *     *     * 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