State Security Investigations Service

He was there to illustrate, again, such a beautiful friendship, but he meant so much to me.

But he was the one who allowed me to retain intellectual sharpness and curiosity because I encountered Adel at a prison that was run by Amn al-Dawla, the state security, the National Security Agency, as we call it, NSA for short.

Which is like, you know, I guess they're responsible for physically torturing people, but also mentally breaking them and extracting confessions.

And that prison, which is the scorpion, is kind of the nickname that we give it.