Curiously, many of the phone calls appeared to come from a young child, dubbed "L'Fant," or" l'enfant" (French for "the child"). Some of the voices were of a young girl, others were Middle Eastern men. The calls brought back memories of Bashir's abduction; the screams sounded identical to those coming from other prisoners. In May 1986, the harassment turned violent when Bashir's car caught fire. His mechanic inspected the car and believed that someone had tampered with its wires.
Bashir asked the FBI to investigate the threats to his life. A tap was placed on his telephone, which recorded more than 3000 threatening calls over an eighteen-month period. However, there was no distinct pattern in where the calls originated. No arrests were ever made. Journalist Lewis Beale was told by the FBI that the calls were coming from various payphones in the metropolitan area, which included Maryland and Virginia along with D.C. Some of the calls were coming in two times a minute, which suggested that multiple people were involved.
Details: These days, many people take the convenience of the telephone for granted. But for Bashir Kouchacji of Washington, D.C., it has become a frightful source of terror. For nine years, he has received between fifteen and twenty threatening phone calls per day. The calls come from unseen terrorists who conceal their identities by calling from pay phones. They have also come after his friends and their families. What makes this horror that much more disturbing is that no one knows why he has been targeted or who is responsible.
In 1974, Bashir and his wife, Gail, moved to Beirut, Lebanon. She was a professional singer who entertained at the Phoenicia Hotel, a well-known gathering place for Middle East diplomats and arms dealers. Shortly after midnight on July 1, Bashir was on his way to pick her up from a party hosted by a Saudi princess when a van drove him off the road. Several unknown armed men came out of it and abducted him. He feared that they were going to rob him. However, he figured that he would not be hurt because he was a U.S. citizen. He figured that he would be able to explain his way out of the situation.
Bashir was taken to a basement in an unknown location and held hostage there. The
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