Soon after Nasser’s interrogation began, his duffel bag created a stir. A female officer was removing stacks of American money from the bag. “This isn’t from here,” she said. Nasser argued with her, but this discovery only got the building more excited. “That ain’t from here,” she said, now more certain. The money was laid out on a nearby table and soon there was a crowd around it. Someone counted it. Ten thousand dollars. This was the first Zeitoun knew of the contents of Nasser’s bag. When Nasser had brought it into the canoe, Zeitoun had assumed it contained clothes, a few valuables. He
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