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Mr Woltinsky said he realized straight away that something was not quite right.
"When he got into my car, I had a bad feeling because he did not behave normally -- his eyes, his nerves -- and the fact he was wearing a big red jacket even though it was hot.
"I asked him where he wanted to go but he didn't say anything, just waved his hand.
"When I asked him again, he said only one word, "Haifa", in an Arab accent. Haifa is hundreds of kilometres away, so now I was almost 100% sure he was a suicide bomber."
In other words, his passenger was acting hinky.
* Ressam was approached by U.S. customs agent Diana Dean, who asked some routine questions and then decided that he looked suspicious. He was fidgeting, sweaty, and jittery. He avoided eye contact. In Dean's own words, he was acting "hinky."
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"I don't know every start-up he was involved with, but I know he had plenty of options, and there's no way he'd touch anything that looked hinky."
Hinky. Now there was a word Dagmar had never before heard in conversation.
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"Yeah. Something about your situation doesn't sit right with me. This whole thing is hinky.
Genosa blinked. "It is what?"
"Hinky," I said. "Uh, it's sort of a Chicago word."
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