Showing The Mirage by Matt Ruff
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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-24 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher: Harper Perennial 1192001: Christian fundamentalists hijackfour jetliners. They fly two into theTigris & Euphrates World Trade Towersin Baghdad. and a third into the ArabDefense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourthplane. believed to be bound for Mecca. isbrought down by its passengers. The UnitedArab States declares a War on Terror. Arabianand Persian troops invade the EasternSeaboard and establish a Green Zone inWashington. DC ... Summer. 2009: Arab Homeland Securityagent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogatesa captured suicide bomber. The prisonerclaims that the world they are living in isa mirage-in the real world. America is asuperpower. and the Arab states are just acollection of backward third-world countries. Other captured terrorists have beentelling the same story.The gangster Saddam Hussein is conductinghis...
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