With the onset of WWI, the French and the British sent armies and agents into the Middle East, to foment revolts in the Arabian Peninsula and to seize Iraq, Syria and Palestine.
The FBI also has come under fire for not passing along information gathered from field agents in Phoenix and Minneapolis that men of Middle Eastern descent were training in U.S. flight schools.
In the middle are the specialist search websites that do not sell anything directly, but put consumers in touch with both online agents and travel firms.