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Mossad Poisoned a Terror Chief With the Inhaler That Let Him Breathe at Altitude

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Mossad Poisoned a Terror Chief With the Inhaler That Let Him Breathe at Altitude

Dubai, the 14th of October, 1986.

In the first class cabin of a wide body, climbing west into the night over the Gulf, a man in a white th lifted one hand and waved the tray away.

He waved away the glass, the hot towel, the small dish of dates.

Everything a stranger’s hand had touched on its way to his seat.

He had eaten nothing on an aircraft in 11 years, and he had stayed alive that long by trusting no hand but his own.

Then the cabin climbed to its cruising height.

The air in his chest thinned the way it always did above the clouds, and he reached into his own jacket for the one small thing he never let out of his sight.

Above the lake of Tunis in the blue and white hill village of Sidi Boo Sed, there was a house behind a high wall that its owner had not left except on business he could not delegate in more than 3 years.

The village was a postcard.

Cobbled lanes climbing between whitewashed walls.

Cobalt shutters.

Bouan villia spilling over the whitewash.

Tourists standing in the narrow streets to photograph the blue doors and white walls.

The house at the top of the lane had a studded blue gate.

Two men who were always somewhere near it and a courtyard with a lemon tree.

The owner watered himself at dusk.

His name was Nabil Farage.

To the men who worked for him, he was Abu Ysef and he was the operations chief of a small disciplined faction that called itself Jabat Alufuk, the Horizon Front.

The Horizon Front was one of the rejectionist splinters that had drifted to North Africa after 1982 when the fighting in Lebanon sent the political leadership of the Palestinian factions to Tunis and scattered the smaller groups behind it.

It was not large, and it did not need to be.

It raised money in the Gulf, moved it quietly through a charitable trust that existed mostly on paper, and spent it on operations abroad that were meant to be felt out of all proportion to the size of the hand behind them.

The political men gave speeches.

Faraj did not.

He ran the operation side, and he ran it the way a bookkeeper runs a ledger, in silence.

and in detail.

He was 53 years old, spare, unsmiling, a man who prayed on time, read at night, and raised his voice at no one.

What set him apart from the other names on a dozen watch lists was not what he did.

It was what he refused.

Farage had built his survival out of subtraction.

He ate nothing he had not seen prepared.

He drank nothing poured by a hand he did not know.

On the rare evenings he sat in a restaurant, he ordered whole fruit and bottled water with a seal unbroken, and he watched the seal break under his own thumb.

He accepted no gift and opened no unexpected parcel.

He filled no new prescription at a pharmacy he had not used for years.

And when he did, he sent the same trusted man to collect it.

He kept the same driver, the same cook, the same two guards for so long that a stranger in his orbit stood out like a lamp.

A man who wanted to reach Nabil Faraj through his mouth would find every door already shut, bolted, and watched from the inside.

The service that would eventually reach him spent the better part of a year staring at those shut doors.

Every approach, an intelligence officer is trained to reach for runs through a hand that touches the target’s food, his drink, his person, or his room.

And Fares had spent a decade closing each of those hands, one after another, until there were none left open.

He was on paper a masterclass in how to stay alive.

He had made himself, by patient subtraction, very nearly impossible to poison.

almost.

There was one thing Nabil Farage could not subtract because his own body would not permit it.

His chest was bad and it had been bad for years and above a certain height in the sky, it betrayed him on a schedule as fixed as the sunrise.

That single fact sat quietly at the bottom of his file.

One line among hundreds, and for a long time, no one saw what it was.

It was the one door in the whole fortress that the owner himself had never been able to close.

North of Tel Aviv on the coast road above the beaches stood the lowwalled complex the service called the Midrasha.

Inside it through the autumn of 1985 and into the spring of 1986.

The Horizon Front had become a problem that would not resolve itself.

Two operations traced to Faraj’s directorate had reached European soil inside a year and both had been meant to reach it.

The men who planned them sat in Tunis alongside the wider Palestinian leadership that had relocated there after the Lebanon war.

And the political leaders for the moment were untouchable for reasons that had nothing to do with tradecraftraft and everything to do with diplomacy.

Faraj was not a political leader.

He was an operational one and operational men were the services to reach.

The difficulty was doctrine and everyone in the room understood it.

The unit that handled this kind of work, Cesaria, read a closed target the way it read any closed target.

You cannot watch the man.

So you watch the things around the man.

You watch the guards, the deliveries, the cars, the single gate.

And what the things around Nabil Farage said month after month was always the same sentence.

The man does not come out.

He held his meetings inside the wall.

He sent others to travel in his place.

He had turned himself into a target with no exposed surface at all.

And a target with no surface is in the plain language of the trade a target you cannot service.

The file that would become Operation Thin Air was opened in the spring of 1986 under a Cesaria officer named Shy Barv, codeen named Shamal.

Barlev was a deliberate man in his late 40s, unhurried to the point of irritating the people above him who had run three foreign operations to a conclusion and killed two others himself on paper by refusing to let them go forward when the ground was wrong.

He had a reputation for saying no, and he understood that the reputation was the most useful thing he owned.

He gave the new file its internal case designator, a single word for the target’s own dossier, sealing.

Then he did the one thing the doctrine told him to do with a man he could not reach.

He went to the research division and asked them to tell him the single thing the target could not stop doing.

The answer came back in the form of an intercept readout across the 8:00 morning circuit on a day in May.

A courier line inside the Horizon Front’s finance arm had confirmed a date.

Faraj would make the one journey he made for no one else.

the annual round through the Gulf where the network’s money was actually raised in person, handtohand from men who would put their envelopes into the palm of the operations chief himself and into no deputies.

He had not set foot on an aircraft in more than a year.

He would be on one in October.

Barlev read the intercept twice, set it down on the desk, and understood that the problem had just grown a single moving part.

The man who never came out was going to come out exactly once for money and fly home across a continent in the dark.

The whole of the year’s patients now hung on 7 hours in the air.

The insight that made the operation did not come from a field officer with a pistol.

It came from a desk from a woman reading paper under a fluorescent light.

Her name was Leette Zohar.

She was 34 and she had spent 3 years inside the research division building target studies out of the fragments other people brought home.

Her code name on the ceiling file was Kamzin.

She had been handed the Farage dossier with a single narrow instruction.

Find the surface.

Everyone before her had read the same file and written the same verdict at the bottom of it.

There was no surface.

The man refused everything.

Zohar did something with that verdict that no one before her had done.

She took it literally.

She sat with a blank sheet and wrote out every refusal in the file, one line under the next until the page was full.

He refuses cooked food from a kitchen he has not seen.

He refuses an opened bottle.

He refuses a poured drink.

He refuses a gift, a parcel, a pill from a strange pharmacy.

She looked at the column for a long time, the way you look at a word until it stops meaning anything.

And then she saw the thing every entry had in common.

The thing that had been hiding in plain sight beneath 10 years of caution.

Every item on the page was something another person offered him.

Every refusal in the man’s life was the refusal of a hand.

He was not unpoisonable.

He was only unpoisonable through other people.

There was exactly one substance in the world that Nabil Farage could not refuse because no hand offered it and his own lungs demanded it and that substance was air.

Zohar pulled the medical thread out of the dossier and followed it to the end.

Farage carried a chronic respiratory disease, the kind that narrows the airways and never improves.

And the file held the marker of it going back years.

An inhaler always on his person noted by a dozen watchers who had thought it meant nothing.

On the ground in Tunis at the altitude of the sea, he could manage the disease, husband the device, use it rarely.

But Zohar knew what a pressurized cabin actually was, and most people do not.

A wide body at cruising height does not carry its passengers at the altitude of the sea.

The regulations of the day let the cabin climb to a pressure of 8,000 ft.

And the older wide bodies flying the long sectors held their cabins at around 7,000 ft at height.

At 7,000 ft, the air holds meaningfully less oxygen than it does on a coast road.

A healthy passenger feels nothing at all.

A man whose lungs are already failing has no margin left to spend.

put Nabil Farage in a sealed cabin for seven hours, and his chest would tighten as certainly as the night would end, and he would reach of his own free will with his own hand, entirely unwatched, for the one object no bodyguard in the world had ever thought to guard.

She wrote the conclusion in a single sentence at the top of her assessment.

The target’s discipline is total on the ground and worthless in the air because the air itself is the one thing he is forced to accept.

She sent it up to Barlev on a Thursday.

By the following week, Operation Thin Air had a shape, and a man who could not be poisoned had on paper become a man who would poison himself.

Before anyone touched the man, they had to be certain of the journey.

and being certain of the journey meant a whole season spent watching a wall through the summer of 1986.

The things around Nabil Farage were read the way Cesaria read any closed compound.

No one stood in the lane at cityboo sed with a camera.

A stranger loitering below that blue gate would have been marked within the hour.

Instead, the operation read the pattern from further out and from the edges.

The grosser’s van that climbed to the top of the lane twice a week and went no further.

The two guards whose shift changed at the same two hours every single day.

The single car that carried Faraj down the hill to the mosque each Friday and brought him back inside 40 minutes.

The fact that no light in the upper windows of the house moved after 10 at night.

What the watching confirmed was the exact shape of the man’s life, and the shape had precisely one hole in it.

He left the wall for prayer and for nothing else in the whole country.

He did not shop.

He did not visit.

He did not travel inside Tunisia.

Everything he needed came to him.

And everything that came to him was checked at the gate by men who had been checking it for years.

The only force on earth that ever drew Nabil Farage out of the closed world he had built for himself was the money.

And the money could not be raised by proxy.

The men in the Gulf who funded the Horizon Front funded it because they trusted the operations chief personally face to face and they pressed their envelopes into his hand and no other.

Once a year and only once, the man who refused every hand held his own out.

That annual journey became the operation’s clock, and it had to be reconstructed before it could be used.

Zohar’s people rebuilt the previous years of the circuit out of travel fragments, hotel traces, and the memories of a source who had seen one leg of it, and the reconstruction held together.

A circuit of Gulf cities across eight or nine days, a set of private meetings behind closed doors, and a single long flight home at the end of it.

always westbound, always at night, always on a wide body because the sector across the desert and the Mediterranean was far too long for anything smaller.

It was a world of paper tickets and split flap departure boards, of TX confirmations and coins for the telephone, and every piece of it left a trace if you knew where the trace would fall.

The intercept in May had fixed this year’s return to the day.

Farage would fly out of the Gulf on the night of the 14th of October on the 7-hour sector home and land at Tunis Carthage in the dark before dawn on the 15th.

There was a quiet symmetry in it that the analysts noted without any pleasure.

The trip that proved how important Nabil Farage was.

The journey no lieutenant could ever make in his place was the one act in his entire year that took him out of the fortress and sealed him for 7 hours inside a metal tube at 7,000 ft.

His indispensability was his exposure.

The very fact that only he could do it was the fact that would kill him.

And there was nothing his caution could do about it because his caution was not the thing at risk.

Operation Thin Air was built to be small and it was built so that no single part of it could ever see the whole.

The people who carried it never gathered as a group, never sat together in one room, and in most cases never learned one another’s real names.

Barlev ran it from the midrasha through a short chain of cutouts.

On the ground, it came down to two people who mattered in two different countries doing two things that only made sense when you set them side by side.

The first was a watcher on the Gulf circuit and inside the operation she was Gibli.

in the world she moved through.

She was Clare Fontaine, a freelance photographer out of Marseilles who shot for the travel trade, the glossy brochures that sold golf hotels and beach resorts to European tour operators.

It was a legend chosen with great care because it explained every single thing a watcher needs explained and never has to invent on the spot.

It explained a camera in a marble hotel lobby.

It explained a European woman asking a concierge about flight times, airport transfers, and which airline flew the long night sectors home.

It explained late hours, a rented car, a notebook, and a professional curiosity about exactly the kinds of places a traveling man passes through on a circuit.

Sivan Katz, the officer living inside the legend, carried a portfolio of genuinely published work, a real French photographic credential, and a real letter of commission from a real trade publisher who had been quietly in the services debt for years.

Clare Fontaine would survive a telephone call to Marseilles because Clare Fontaine had actually filed the photographs the caller would be told about.

The second person who mattered had no glamour to him whatsoever.

And that was precisely the point.

His name was Karim Nasar.

He was a bonded clerk in the ground handling and catering supply chain at the Gulf station the last flight would leave from.

A man in his 40s with a wife, two daughters, a mortgage he had fallen behind on, and a job that gave the operation something no case officer could ever manufacture.

legitimate, unremarkable, unarched contact with the forward cabin of an aircraft during the ground turn.

Nasar’s hands were on that cabin every working day.

He checked and loaded the small comforts of the first class section, and no one watched his hands because in 1986, no one at that station watched anyone’s hands at all.

Cabin baggage and the forward galley were checked unevenly and mostly by eye.

The handling staff were trusted for the oldest of reasons, which is that they had always been trusted and no one had ever been caught.

Karim Nasar was recruited slowly across four months for money at the start and then for the harder debt of a man who has already agreed once and cannot easily take it back.

He was run at arms length by a case officer he believed to be a Lebanese businessman with an interest in air freight.

And he was told almost nothing.

He never learned the target’s name.

He did not need it to do the single thing he would be asked to do.

His asset code name was Tramantine and he never knew he had one.

Knowing that Nabil Farage carried an inhaler was nowhere near enough.

The operation needed the exact object, the make, the model, the precise thing his hand would close around at 7,000 ft in the dark.

A plan built around the wrong device was no plan at all.

And Barv said so plainly.

Bring me the object, he told them, not the category.

The answer came out of the Gulf Circuit in pieces over weeks through Gibli.

A man on his annual fundraising round stays in good hotels, and good hotels have housekeeping.

And housekeeping sees what sits on a nightstand.

It took two of the circuit cities and a great deal of patience.

A word here from a chambermaid Clare Fontaine had photographed and tipped a glimpse there of a supply reordered through a hotel doctor.

But the picture slowly assembled itself.

On the nightstand of the man who trusted nothing, there was an inhaler and it was the most ordinary one imaginable.

It was a ventilin, the salutimal reliever that had been the standard treatment for exactly his condition since 1969.

The metered dose inhaler itself was older still.

A design first sold in 1956 and long since one of the most ordinary objects a traveler could carry.

It was a small aluminium canister seated in a plastic actuator.

The canister fitted to a metering valve that released one measured dose each time it was pressed down.

Roughly 200 doses to a canister.

The medicine suspended in a liqufied chlorofluorocarbon propellant that flashed into a fine mist the instant it left the valve.

It was one of the most familiar medical objects on Earth.

That was exactly what made it perfect.

No customs officer, no bodyguard, no chamber mate, and no target ever looks twice at a Venolan.

Then came the complication that very nearly ended the operation before it had truly begun.

Gibli’s reporting cross-cheed against a pharmacy reordered the operation quietly traced showed that Farage did not carry one inhaler.

He carried two.

A man whose life depended on the device was not fool enough to trust a single canister that might empty itself somewhere over the Gulf.

So he kept a spare.

And worst for the planners, he used them in no fixed order at all.

He reached into whichever jacket pocket his hand happened to find first.

A plan that depended on one identified canister being the one he raised to his mouth was a plan with a coin flip buried in the very center of it.

And Barlive would not authorize a coin flip.

He sent the design back twice.

The problem was no longer whether the team knew the brand.

They knew it exactly.

The problem was that knowing the brand told them nothing whatever about which of two identical objects a half asleep man would breathe from somewhere above the desert in the middle of the night with no one near enough to see which pocket his hand chose.

The solution took the coin flip out of the operation and it did so by moving the whole problem out of the hotel room and into the one place on earth where Nabil Farage briefly stopped controlling his own belongings, the aircraft itself.

The hotel room had been the obvious idea and it had been discarded early.

Faraj’s rooms on the circuit were his own ground, swept by his own people before he entered them, and his person was never more than a few steps from a bodyguard.

But there was a gap in the fortress that even Nabil Faraj could not close because it did not belong to him.

During the ground turn before a long flight, a first class passenger’s cabin baggage and stowed personal effects sit for a stretch of minutes inside a system he does not own and cannot watch.

That system is the handling chain.

And in that chain on that specific flight, the operation had tremantine whose entire job was to be there with legitimate hands and a reason to use them.

The design Barle Lev finally approved solved the two canister problem in the simplest way there was.

And the file recorded it in a single dry sentence that gave nothing away about method.

Both of the targets canisters and not merely one would be reached in the chain so that whichever pocket his hand found in the dark, the outcome was identical.

The dossier that supported the operation described the device honestly and at a distance, the way a briefing describes a thing without ever teaching it.

The metering valve dispensed a fixed measured dose.

The propellant carried that dose outward as an aerosol of particles fine enough to travel deep into the lung and be taken up there.

The one fact that mattered above all the others for the purposes of operation thin air was simply that the user fired the device himself and drew the mist in himself.

At a moment his own body would choose without prompting.

What had been done to the canisters was engineered to declare nothing at the moment of use and nothing in the air.

the onset was time to arrive many hours later on the ground long after the man had walked off the aircraft on his own two feet.

That a delayed and deniable effect was even possible was not a new discovery.

The service knew the long history of it.

The way everyone in the trade knew the case of the Bulgarian writer killed in London in 1978 by a dose that took the better part of a day to declare itself.

In every such story, the whole art lay in the gap between the act and the effect.

And here that gap had been designed to swallow an entire aircraft and a national border whole.

Boaz Netzer, code name Haboo, was the officer who carried the placement to Traantine and confirmed it done.

Netzer had been in the field for 9 years, and he sat awake in a Gulf hotel room the night before the flight, with a feeling he did not put into any report, and would not have known how to file if he had tried.

Every operation he had run before this one had a moment in it he could point to afterwards in his own mind.

A moment when a thing was done that looked like the thing it was.

This one would have no such moment anywhere.

If it worked, a 53-year-old man with failing lungs would grow short of breath after a long night flight and die of the disease he had visibly carried for years.

And a doctor in Tunis would write that down.

And every word of it would be true.

And all of it together would be the most complete lie Netzer had ever helped to build.

He had joined the service to protect ordinary people from men like Nabil Faraj.

and he still believed sitting in the dark that this was that he also understood with a clarity that did not comfort him that the cleanest thing he had ever done in his life was the one act that would leave no mark anywhere in the world to say that it had been done at all in the morning he confirmed the placement cleared his room and left the Gulf on a flight of his own a full 12 hours ahead of the target.

On the evening of the 14th of October 1986, Nabil Farage arrived at the Gulf airport for the last flight of his annual round.

Gibli watched him come through the terminal from 30 m back, a camera bag on her shoulder to NEi, a European woman photographing a modern departure hall for a hotel brochure.

He moved exactly as the file said he moved.

unhurried, incurious, a spare man in a white th with a leather grip in one hand, and two men from the local network walking him as far as the gate and no further.

The great glass hall of the terminal was bright with the decad’s idea of luxury, and the duty-free wall ran the entire length of it.

Gold and spirits and cigarettes and perfume stacked to the ceiling, one of the most abundant rooms in the Gulf.

Farage walked the length of it and bought nothing.

He had never once in his life taken anything from a hand in an airport.

And he did not begin on his last night.

The single thing he would take on this journey he was already carrying in his own jacket.

And he did not know that it had been waiting for him for 4 months.

The aircraft was a wide body, a Lockheed Tristar on the long westbound sector, and the first class cabin at the nose held only a handful of passengers in the wide recliners of the period.

Farage took his seat, stowed the grip in the bin above his own head himself, and refused the cabin before it was fully offered to him.

The welcome tray went past with a small movement of his hand.

The hot towel the same.

When the crew came through with the meal in the first hour, he asked in careful English for bottled water with a seal intact, broke the seal himself under his thumb, and ate a single piece of fruit he had watched come sealed from the galley.

Then he reclined his seat.

The cabin lights dimmed to a low amber, and the aircraft settled into the long, dark middle of a 7-hour flight.

5,800 km of desert and sea unrolling beneath it in the black.

There is a detail from Gibli’s file on the man that the operation kept in its records, though it changed nothing and was meant to change nothing because it was the kind of detail that makes a thing heavier to carry afterwards.

In the last hotel of the circuit, housekeeping had reported that the guest kept a photograph propped against the base of the nightstand lamp, a small creased print of two girls in school uniforms.

and that he stood it up carefully each night and packed it away each morning before he left the room.

Nabil Faraj was a grandfather.

Somewhere over the desert, the picture was folded into the leather grip in the overhead bin, packed away for travel, a hands reach above his sleeping head.

The cabin climbed and held at its cruising height, and the air inside it thinned to the pressure of a mountain town.

And somewhere in the small hours, the thing that Leat Zohar had predicted from a desk in Tel Aviv happened exactly as she had written that it would.

Faraj’s chest tightened.

It was an old and familiar tightening, the same one that came to him every time he flew above the clouds, and he answered it the way he had answered it on a hundred flights before this one.

He reached into his jacket, unhurried, half asleep, and his hand closed on the first of the two canisters it found.

He fitted it to his mouth.

He pressed it.

He drew the fine mist deep into his lungs, the way the device was built to be used by his own hand, of his own free will.

In the one act of trust, he still permitted himself in all the world.

He felt the small familiar loosening in his chest.

He slid the canister back into his pocket and he slept.

The aircraft crossed the North African coast and began its long descent into Tunis in the gray hour before dawn on the 15th of October.

The cabin came slowly back down toward the pressure of the sea, and Nabil Farage woke, folded his blanket into a neat square, and was among the first passengers through the forward door and onto the airbridge at Tunis Carthage.

He cleared the airport on his own two feet.

He carried the grip himself, the photograph inside it, the two canisters in his jacket.

A car from the network was waiting at the curb and it took him up the familiar road along the edge of the lake of Tunis up the hill through the streets of Sidibu Sed just beginning to lighten through the blue gate and into the courtyard with the lemon tree.

He was home by every measure available to him and to the men who guarded him.

Nothing at all had happened.

He had made the one journey no one else could make and he had come back from it as he always came back untouched by any hand but his own.

The operation was in effect already finished.

It had carried no weapon across a border in the night.

It had left no team standing on Tunisian soil to be caught, no safe house to be raided, nothing at Carthage for anyone to find.

its last active element, Traantine, had worked an ordinary shift at a Gulf airport far to the east and gone home to his wife and his daughters.

Yaon Gil, who had waited on the North African end in case an exfiltration was ever required, was never required and quietly stood down and went home.

Everyone who had ever touched Operation Thin Air was already clear of it before the target reached his own front gate.

The onset came later that same day inside the house behind the wall and it came as the disease itself would have come.

Nabil Farage grew short of breath.

His chest tightened and this time it did not ease.

His own people when it became clear that something was seriously wrong did the very thing that made the operation perfect.

They treated it as an attack of the illness they had watched him manage for years because that is exactly what it looked like from the outside.

And they reached again and again for the very inhaler that was the cause of it and held it to his mouth to help him breathe.

By the time a doctor was brought quietly inside the wall, the way everything reached that house, there was nothing left to be done and no reason on the doctor’s mind to go looking for one.

A man of 53 with a long and documented history of severe respiratory disease had died of respiratory failure after a long overnight flight, which is a thing that happens in the world and which no one present had the smallest cause to question.

There was no investigation because there was no crime that anyone could see to investigate.

There was no aircraft incident because nothing had happened on the aircraft.

There was no poisoning inquiry because there was no poisoning for anyone to inquire into.

Only an old and worsening illness reaching its natural end at an unremarkable hour of an ordinary day.

The Horizon Front lost the one man it could not raise its money without.

And it never once suspected it had lost him to anything but his own failing lungs.

Far to the east in Tel Aviv, someone drew a line under a case designator on the ceiling file and closed it.

The cleanest operations of all are the ones that are never afterwards called operations at all.

weigh the two sides of it honestly because the operation itself was built with enormous care so that the world would never once get the chance to.

On the one side, there was Nabil Faraj who for a decade had directed operations abroad designed to kill people whose only offense was to be standing in a particular place at a particular time and who had made himself untouchable by a discipline so complete that no ordinary hand could ever reach him.

He was reached in the end without a shot fired, without a bystander harmed, without a single border crossed under arms.

Through the one door his own lifelong caution had left standing open.

On the other side there is the shape of the thing that was actually done to reach him.

A state reached into the medicine a man carried in his own pocket to stay alive and turned it against him so completely that no court ever heard of it.

No inquiry was ever opened and his own family holding the inhaler to his lips at the very end believed to the last breath that they were helping him live.

A killing dressed so perfectly as a natural death that history itself cannot see that it happened.

That is the uncomfortable center of an operation like thin air.

And it does not resolve itself no matter which way you turn it.

The same qualities that make it a masterpiece of the craft, the cleanness, the deniability, the total absence of any mark, are the exact qualities that place it forever beyond the reach of any judgment at all.

A killing that no one can prove is a killing that no one can ever be made to answer for.

When a service can reach a man through the one act of trust his own body forces upon him and can do it so well that the deed quietly erases itself.

Is that the highest form the craft can reach or the single most dangerous thing a state can ever teach itself to do? So we leave that question with you where it belongs.

Tell us in the comments where in the world you are watching from and where you yourself would draw that line.

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