(the scene: a bombed out building in fallujah. two heavily armed foreign fighters sit on a rug on the floor. in the corner is an old television set with a crooked antenna)
ahmed: hey khalid, what do you want to do today?
khalid: uh, i dunno. i wanna see spiderman 3, is that out yet?
ahmed: i have no idea, but we bombed the cinema last month, remember?
khalid: oh right. (pause) hey, is mahmoud around? he's got a ping-pong table.
ahmed: i hate ping-pong.
khalid: well, we can go to a cafe, hang out, play some backgammon, you know, the usual.
ahmed: we did that yesterday. fallujah sucks. there's nothing to do here! i never realized being a member of al-qaeda would be so boring.
khalid: maybe something's on tv. i can get C-Span.
(khalid turns on the tv. it shows congress debating whether to include a timetable to withdraw u.s. forces in iraq in the war spending bill. khalid and ahmed watch the screen for a few minutes)
ahmed: i had no idea americans wanted to attach a non-binding timetable for withdrawal to the funding bill for u.s. troops in iraq.
khalid: yeah, me neither. hey, this show gives me an idea, let's kill some americans!
ahmed: great idea! why didn't i think of that?
khalid: it never would have occurred to me either if i didn't see those wimpy democrats on TV.
(khalid walks over to the window, picks up a rocket propelled grenade launched and fires out the window. sounds of an explosion and screams can be heard through the window)
(the end)
