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[The Ghost is at Heathrow Airport]
Sky News Newscaster: Islam has issued a statement claiming responsibility. We hope to bring you more on that later in the bulletin. Meanwhile, former British Prime Minister Adam Lang is back in the news tonight. According to leaked documents, Mr. Lang authorized the illegal use of British special forces to seize four suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan and then hand them over for interrogation by the CIA. The men, Nasir Ashraf, Marwat Sayed, Salim Khan and Faruk Ahmed, all British citizens, were seized in the Pakistani city of Peshawar five years ago. All four were allegedly transferred out of the country to a secret location and tortured. Mr. Ashraf is reported to have died under interrogation. Such an operation would have been illegal under...
Rick Ricardelli: [The Ghost calls him] Yeah?
The Ghost: Where are you?
Rick Ricardelli: Heathrow, like you. Waiting for my flight to New York.
The Ghost: Can you see the news?
Rick Ricardelli: The Lang story? Yeah, I'm watching it now.
The Ghost: What have you gotten me into?
Rick Ricardelli: I got you into a quarter of a million bucks, pal, that's what I got you into. They're calling my flight. I gotta go.
The Ghost: Listen, I just realized Sidney Kroll could have given me that manuscript deliberately so it would look like I was carrying Lang's book.
Rick Ricardelli: Why the hell would he do that?
The Ghost: I don't know. To use me as a tethered goat?
Rick Ricardelli: Get some sleep on the plane. You're sounding weird. "A tethered goat." I'll call you next week.
Sky News Newscaster: ...and long-term psychological trauma. In other words, torture.
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