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Spying on the Terrorists

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As is often the case with informers, Nasiri eventually fell out with his handlers. He moved to Germany, where he now lives in anonymity with his wife. Nasiri concludes his book by observing that his jihad -- his holy struggle -- today is to explain that the terrorists he spied on have hijacked Islam itself. "Killing soldiers is war; killing civilians is murder," he writes. "This is not merely my opinion. It is an article of my faith."

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