It would have been impossible to even interview Aboud al-Zomor a few months ago. After the interview, Zomor left the apartment. I watched him walk down the street. He was stopped repeatedly. People came up to shake his hand. They wanted to meet him. A poor man pushing a cart bought him a glass of sugarcane juice. Zomor was treated more like a celebrity -- more like a fellow revolutionary -- than an organizer of Egypt's most notorious assassination in modern history.
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