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was my own fault. I was careless," he explained, then told me
this story. He had been delegated to do away with an Egyptian
official in Cairo. Planning the attack carefully, Ali had made
a sketch of the official's itinerary and marked with an X the
spot from which he was to fire his revolver. In his excitement
Ali had lost the diagram.
"I didn't need the paper. I remembered everything," he
said. "I was BF