[piasa]

It's weird alright. He was working for british american Tobacco which hired a security firm in an investigation of cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting; they say his investigation was of South American smuggling, not Middle East. Of course, S American smuggling involves both North Africa and the Middle East.

He met with Dawud Salahuddin a/k/a Hassan Abdulrahman on Kish; he's an American convert to Islam who had been involved in an assassination plot back in the US before running off to Iran.

[PLMerite]

I’m sure they hired him to exploid his FBI contacts, and I hope they were paying him a whole bunch of money.