A scene from Zero Dark Thirty 2012
[to Ammar, referencing the 2004 Khboar massacre]

After we kept you awake for 96 hours, you gave us names of some of your brothers and saved the lives of a lot of innocent people.

Dan

Which is the smart thing to do, you're starting to think for yourself. Eat up! You earned it!

Dan

So you flew via Amman to Kabul to hang out with your uncle? Mukhtar.

Amar

How did you know that?

Dan

I told you man, I know you. Alright, you got me - flight manifests. It must've been pretty **** up for you guys after 9/11. What did you do after the invasion and before you went back to Pesh?

Ammar

After 9/11 we had to choose: fight, to protect our turf - or run.

Dan

You chose to fight.

Ammar

I wanted to kill Americans. We tried to get into Tora Bora, but the bombing was too high. We couldn't cross.

Sorry, who is the "we" in that sentence?

Ammar

Me and some guys who were hanging around at that time.

Dan
[casually, but annoyed]

I can go eat with some other dude and hang you back up to the ceiling.

Ammar

Hamza Rabia, Khabab al-Masri, and Abu Ahmed.

Who's Abu Ahmed? I've heard of the other guys.

Ammar

He was a computer guy with us at the time. After Tora Bora, I went back to Pesh - as you know - and he went North, I think, to Kunar.

What's his family name?

Ammar

Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti

Abu Ahmed means 'father of Ahmed," it's a kunya. Ammar, I know the difference between a war name and an Arabic name.

Dan

She got you there, dude.

Ammar

I swear to you both: I don't know his family name. I would have never asked him something like that. It's not how my uncle worked. My uncle told me he worked for bin Laden. I did see him, once, about a year ago, in Karachi. He read us all a letter from the Sheikh.

A letter?

Dan

What did it say?

Ammar

It said: "Continue the jihad. The work will go on for a hundred years."

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