"At the time of the meeting, the boy didn't know that the
United States had decided to kill a man named Adnan al-Qadhi, and had turned to
its allies in Yemen for assistance. Now the Yemeni government needed the child’s
help. The Republican Guard officers told him what they wanted him to do: plant
tiny electronic chips on the man he had come to think of as a surrogate father.
The boy knew and trusted the officers; they were his biological father's
friends. He told them he would try. He would be their spy."