This guy goes all the way back to the assassination of Sadat. I’ve suspected for years that the only reason he’s been consuming oxygen (if he has) is because we turned him. Possibly not, possibly his usefulness was at an end, and possibly the whole thing is fake. At this point I believe nothing I read in the U.S. media anyway.
It’s an election year.
If that's the case, 0baᵐa The Transformer probably wanted the guys protection revoked.