The Siege (1998)

Sami Bouajila: Samir Nazhde

Quotes 

• Sharon Bridger : Samir! The Koran preaches...

  Samir Nazhde : Do not lecture me on the Qur'an, woman! First you left me in Iraq... LIKE A PIECE OF SHIT... Then you took our leader... A HOLY MAN FOR PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD.

• [the agents observe and capture Samir] 

  Agent Frank Haddad : His name's Samir Nazhde. Teaches Arab Studies at Brooklyn College. He sponsored Ail Waziri's student visa. And dig this - his brother blew up a movie theatre in Tel Aviv.

  Elise Kraft : You might consider leaving him alone.

  Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard : Why would I consider doing that?

  Elise Kraft : Play him like a cop and haul him in now and get your arrest, or tag him and let him lead you to the really big fish.

  Agent Frank Haddad : [curses in Arabic]  You're fishing and he's getting visas for bombers.

  Elise Kraft : You ever heard of catch and release?

  Agent Frank Haddad : Yes, and he's on the next plane for Tunis.

  [Samir is now leaving a cafe] 

  Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard : Take him down.

  Agent Frank Haddad : [keys his radio]  Go.

  [Three agents take Samir, and lead them to Hub's car] 

  Agent Frank Haddad : Samir Nazhde, my name is Frank Haddad, I'm a Federal Agent. We have reason to believe you are an accessory to the bombing of Bus 87.

  Samir Nazhde : Are you crazy?

  Agent Frank Haddad : You are an associate of Ali Waziri.

  Samir Nazhde : Who? I know no one by that name.

  Agent Frank Haddad : You got him a student visa.

  Samir Nazhde : I sign these applications as a matter of course, hundreds of them. Everyone wants to come to the land of opportunity and Baywatch.

  Agent Frank Haddad : You spent two years in Israeli jails during the Intifada.

  Samir Nazhde : The only ones who didn't were women like you.

  [Frank backhands Samir across the mouth] 

  Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard : Frank...

  Agent Frank Haddad : Sorry, personal matter.

  [to Samir] 

  Agent Frank Haddad : You're going downtown, my friend.

  Samir Nazhde : You cannot hold me. I know my rights! I watch American television!

  Agent Frank Haddad : Defrauding the INS is a federal offense.

  [hands him off to the agents] 

  Agent Frank Haddad : Reservation for one, please.

• Samir Nazhde : Belief is power!

  Samir Nazhde : There will never be a final cell!