This is an outstanding piece of research and writing: Breezy, engaging, and deeply evocative. Well done!
It is well researched and related. Thank you for commenting on it so that I would read it.
The bottom line is that it sounds like this “Ziz” is still on the loose. I guess more carnage is yet to come.
The one thing missing from the story is when and where Ziz picked up his CIA handler. My guess would be Berkeley or just before he fell off the boat.
I don’t think that people realize what the Deep State can do. For a fraction of the missing USAID money, agents just as crazy as Ziz can be out grooming and instructing these wackos for potential use by the DS.