Body of Lies
[IN ARABIC]
AL-SALEEM [ON TV]:
[DOG BARKING]
[TRAIN HORN BLARES]
All clear.
[TRAIN RUMBLING]
[DOGS BARKING]
[BOTTLES CLINKING]
[DRIVER WHISTLING]
ON TV]
[WHISTLING]
[BOTTLES CLINKING]
Shh.
Ali.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY
AND SIRENS WAILING]
OVER LOUDSPEAKER]
MAN:
Do we belong there?Do we not?
It doesn't matter
... because we are there.
We're tired, and we can't see the end.
We can't even console ourselves
that our enemy is just as tired as we are.
Because they're not.
[MUFFLED YELLING]
It is a fallacy that prolonged war
will weaken an occupied enemy.
SOLDIER:
He's dead.
It most likely
will make your enemy stronger.
They get used to the deprivation,
and they adapt and respond accordingly.
While here at home...
The explosion occurred in one of
Manchester's heavily Asian neighborhoods.
...with every death reported...
...we have to deal with a public-opinion
trajectory that slides rapidly...
...from supportive to negative
to downright hostile.
People just get sick and tired
of a moment's silence at a ball game.
They just wanna be told that it's over.
REPORTER [ON TV]: Police and emergency
workers in Manchester...
... are still combing through what is left
of this block of flats.
They say this was not the target.
Had the bombs being constructed here
found their eventual intended target...
... the devastation could...
HOFFMAN:
Despite the fact...
...we have markedly increased
our operational intensity...
...we're not seeing any progress.
What we're dealing with here...
...is potentially a global conflagration...
...that requires constant diligence
in order to suppress.
Now, you see...
...because our enemy...
...has realized that they are fighting guys
from the future.
Now, ahem, it is brilliant
as it is infuriating.
If you live like it's the past,
and you behave like it's the past...
...then guys from the future
find it very hard to see you.
If you throw away your cell phone,
shut down your e-mail...
... pass all your instructions face-to-face,
hand-to-hand...
... turn your back on technology
and just disappear into the crowd...
No flags. No uniforms.
You got your basic grunts
on the ground there.
They're looking going,
"Who is it we're fighting?"
In a situation like this,
your friends dress just like your enemies...
... and your enemies dress
like your friends.
What I need you to fully understand is that
these people, they do not wanna negotiate.
Not at all.
They want the universal caliphate
established across the face of the Earth...
... and they want every infidel converted
or dead.
So, what's changed...
...is that our
allegedly unsophisticated enemy...
...has cottoned on
to the factually unsophisticated truth...
...we're an easy target.
We are an easy target...
... and our world as we know it
is a lot simpler...
...to put to an end than you might think.
We take our foot off the throat
of this enemy for one minute...
...and our world changes completely.
MAN:
Thank you, Mr. Hoffman.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[HORN HONKS]
BASSAM [IN ARABIC]:
FERRIS:
I'm coming.
You're early.
Big boss man, what's happening?
[GROANS]
What's the story?
Rules of the day.
If the car gets immobilized,
start shooting.
Nobody gets traded. Everybody dies.
So same as every day?
- You got it. Want some breakfast?
- Hell, yes.
Thanks.
[HONKS HORN]
All right. Tell me something real.
BASSAM:
Oh, all I got is real, man. You know me.
All right, let's hear it.
All right, a guy named Nizar.
He's from Aquiz up near Tikrit, right?
So he gets all f***ed in his head
after the invasion, you know?
He starts working with the Baathists,
then the jihadists.
But he is scared shitless now, man.
He's supposed
to do a martyrdom operation...
...but he doesn't wanna f***ing die.
So he's coming to us.
- He's coming to us?
- Mm-hm.
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
FERRIS:
For chrissakes, move the donkey.
[SHOUTS IN ARABIC]
SOLDIER:
Move it, let's go.Get these guys moving. Let's go.
Come on, come on.
BASSAM:
Oh, my God. Just get the...Buy the f***ing flowers.
[SPEAKS IN ARABIC]
Come on, come on.
FERRIS:
So, what are the chancesyour man's playing both sides?
BASSAM:
I don't know. What are they with me?
FERRIS:
Three to one.
All right. Let's slow down.
Is this it?
BASSAM:
Yeah. This is it.
WOMAN:
Nitrate 37 slewing to target ports now.
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
On target, 15:
31 Zulu.MAN 1:
Cell phone linked to moving vehicle.
FERRIS [OVER RADIO]:
Stop right up here.
Right up here. Let me take a look.
- I don't see anything.
BASSAM:
I'm gonna call him.FERRIS:
All right, call him.
[LINE RINGING]
MAN [OVER PHONE]:
Bassam.
Yeah, Nizar.
[IN ARABIC]
NIZAR:
Huh?
NIZAR:
WOMAN:
IR 3.9.
- He says he wants one of us to come in.
FERRIS:
He is to meet inside the car.Inside the car.
If he wants to talk, it's in the car.
You have to come to us, Nizar.
- I'm coming to you.
- Do the f*** what I said. Go.
Hey, hey. Listen to me.
I am not getting my head cut off
on the Internet.
If something happens, shoot me.
- Will you shoot me?
- F*** that sh*t. I will shoot you right now.
- I'm not kidding.
- Quit being a p*ssy.
BASSAM:
Nizar.
WOMAN:
Zooming in.
Visual confirmed.
Long wave 10.7.
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
Sh*t.
- I can't talk right now, Larry.
- She wants the house.
FERRIS:
Give her the house.It's a piece of sh*t, all right?
- We're getting this, sir.
- We're getting it.
She can ask for whatever she wants,
but I'm not listening.
What the hell are you calling for?
Hang up the phone.
Hang up the phone.
Are you on the line?
I can see you now, all right?
You are attracting attention.
Get the f*** out of here right now.
I will handle this on my own.
Roger that. Off target.
WOMAN:
Copy. Off target, 3-10.
FERRIS [IN ARABIC]:
Yes.
FERRIS:
Good, good, good.
FERRIS:
You want an orange? You hungry?
No.
So, Nizar...
...why'd you come to me, huh?
I know too many things.
They prepared me to go outside Iraq.
What do you mean by "outside Iraq"?
They said they need me
to become shahid...
...for martyrdom.
When a man knows too much,
they say martyrdom.
Who do you mean by "they," Nizar? Hm?
[SNIFFLES]
I don't want to die.
I want to go to America.
I have a Ph.D., you know?
And they want me...
They want me to blow myself up.
- Ph.D. in what, chemistry?
- No.
What do you know
about radiological materials?
Linguistic. I speak five languages.
Five, you know?
Nobody should say "martyr" to me.
Nobody.
- You are a rare and a delicate flower.
- Yes, I am.
- Yes.
- Yes.
So you don't wanna kill the Jews
and the Crusaders, huh?
What do you know about our pain?
Cut the bullshit, all right?
Give me some information.
What do you know?
[NIZAR SIGHS]
You know,
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