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The occupation of DR. Said
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“What do you do from day to day? ” asked the Young Man.
“My actual job, according to the law, and the procedure, and the charter, comes to enforcement. This alliance consists of thirteen different committees. Each committee does its own job. For instance, Secretariat. What do they do? They do their own job. Political Committee does perform its own job. Research and Inspection Committee performs its own job. And I am the president of the Research and Inspection Committee. Because I studied law, I was a judge in Afghanistan in the Supreme Court. In various cases, I do investigation. There is interrogation of the people, clashes, offenses — minor offense, major offense — felony, misdemeanor …”
“So what do you do in the course of an interrogation? ”
“Ah, interrogation is, as far as we are concerned, a very great major crime. To do the research, this is a police function — to find the criminal, to bring him in for interrogation, and when they are brought for interrogation, then as a prosecution I determine my own vote on these people, and I send the vote and interrogate these people, in a very human way. After the completion of the case according to the realm of international law, we send the case to the Commissary. Whatever they like, they may perform in conjunction with the case. — I personally from the very beginning up to the last find this interesting, but if you have specific questions as far as you are concerned, please come up to my office and ask this question and I will show you the type of work: how we interrogate the people, how the accusation is delivered to the people and how their denial is accepted.”
“When can I come? ”
“Anytime. Do come, and do ask for Dr. Judge Najib Said, the President of Investigation and Research.”
SEMANTICS (1987)
At the time I thought Dr. Said to be a very cruel man. Nowadays, I am happy or sad to say, if I were to meet Dr. Said I would scarcely give the possible cruelty of his occupation a thought. If there are Soviet informants among the Mujahideen, then they must be identified and killed. (But what if the Communists are not Communists at all? — Well, everyone makes mistakes.)
EPITAPH FOR THE YOUNG MAN
“Here it is difficult as it were to keep our heads up, ” says Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations, I.106), “—to see that we must stick to the objects of our every-day thinking and not go astray and imagine that we have to describe extreme subtleties, which in turn we are quite unable to describe with the means at our disposal. We feel as if we had to repair a torn spider’s web with our fingers.”