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What can one man do?

#28: July - Sept. 2006 (Non-Fiction)
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What can one man do?

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The person to ask, it would seem, is al-Faruqi. Chapter 24 (particularly section i.) shows this lone man, wandering out of the desert and buying passage into Allied trust with a series of unsubstantiated claims -- and in turn, influencing both Allied and Turkish plans and policies. It's a kind of con job, but it's startling how much this man managed to achieve with basically nothing to back him but his wits.
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