It is my view that he did almost everything right. According to other sources, he did not have anything to do with his girlfriend’s transfer or pay raise. The World Bank had concluded that she was due a pay raise before she was transferred. The only thing I can think that he did wrong was get involved with a Muslim in the first place.
Believe it or not, I agree with you on your very last point.
This portrayal of her, pieced together from World Bank staffers on their dissident site, really shows that she was an incompetent but manipulative and controlling sort of Arab woman, and does not make me think highly of her at all. Why Paul got involved with this sort of person is pretty sad.