Sally Hayden
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Jun
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And so Bassam, his father needed medical care.
His father had Alzheimer's and was very fragile and needed, you know, he fell and broke bones and he needed medical care.
And Bassam needed money.
And so he decided that he was going to raid the bank.
And he went, he took a gun and a gallon of gasoline and went into a bank in Beirut and basically carried out a hostage situation where he said, I'm not going.
I'm not letting these bank employees go until I get my money.
And the strange thing that happened was that the bank became surrounded by supporters who were like, you know, wanted they were like, this is what we all want to do.
You know, they were cheering him on.
And when he got out or when he left.
He was facing legal ramifications, but he became hailed as a national hero.
And there was this big question of like, who's the real bank raider?
Is it Bassam or is it the bankers and the politicians?
Yeah.
And, you know, after this, there was a previous raid that had happened and then there were more raids after this.
And what I document in the book is that many of those raids were being carried out by people who had family members who needed medical care.
And so for me, yeah.
not to quote the title too, obviously, but this is also a love story.
It's about what people do for the people they love in a time of crisis.
And Bassam, he actually, his family come from a border village.
And so his story has kind of continued in terms of being affected and his family being affected by, again, the multiple crises in Lebanon.
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