Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spurns them -particularly those with wanton Western ways. He is a gentle man, except when provoked. "There is a time for diplomacy and there is a time for fighting," he says. "The time for diplomacy is long past. Violence must be answered with violence." He is Lieut. Mourad Saber, 32, Agent SM-15 of Algerian counterespionage, and he is at least twice the man that 007 ever...
...Algerian State Publishing House. No Phantoms for Tel Aviv, Halt Plan Terror!, Rescue the Fedayeen Girl, Vengeance at Gaza and Hangmen Also Die are tailored for Arab readers. The fact that they are printed only in French, however, has restricted their audience in the Arab world. Even so, Saber has won himself a following of camp-conscious European devotees who affectionately refer to him as Achmed Bond...
Indeed, there are numerous similarities between SM-15 and the indefatigable James Bond. Both are equally skillful at planting explosives and pulverizing adversaries. Of course Saber, while he is shooting two South Africans in the head, heroically confesses that he feels "a certain repugnance" toward such necessary bloodshed. Where Bond's nemesis is the satanic spy network SMERSH, Saber's is Shin-Bet, the Israeli counterespionage agency, and especially dark-haired, black-eyed Lieut. Colonel Isaiah Shader. ("A true Semite, that...
...Saber and Bond also share a masochistic taste for cold showers. But where 007 likes his champagne chilled and his women hot, Saber is a devout Moslem who takes his lemonade without sugar and says "no" in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. "Cover yourself," he admonishes one toothsome hussy, "you look like a French prostitute." In No Phantoms for Tel Aviv, the delectable Amalia coos, "I have everything you could want," as she attempts to steal a tape recording from him. Snaps Saber: "I have other things to do." He has not been nicknamed "Son of God" for nothing...
...Saber series is the work not of an Arab but of a French writer who goes under the pen name Yousef Khader. Explaining his anonymity in a letter to the Algerian newspaper El Moujhaid, the author said: "These days it is extremely dangerous to denounce the criminal aims of imperialists and Zionists. I cannot reveal my true identity for security reasons...