The author reports an incident happened ten years ago about an American Jew who was caught in one of the mosques of Assiut. He was recording the preaching of the sheikh and taking some notes because he was preparing an important study on the effect of the Friday Sermon on worshipers. The author comments that the US is still intervening in Muslims´ religious affairs. He gives excerpts of a recent American study by a group of American experts concerning what they call drying up sources of terrorism.