1.   Beirut rug merchants are flogging Star-of-David doormats.

2.   Chagra was one of three brothers, children of a Lebanese rug merchant who emigrated from Mexico to El Paso.

3.   Practically every street corner contains a rug merchant claiming to offer quality products.

4.   The boarding announcements override one another, like competing rug merchants shouting out bargains in a bazaar.

5.   In small Pakistani towns, the local hawala broker might run a general store, or be a rug merchant.

6.   Rug merchants, camel drivers and ticket-sellers count the days since they last saw an American tourist.

7.   Yuri, who once worked in a Russian bioweapons factory as a technician, manufactures inhalational anthrax in his basement laboratory and tests it on an unsuspecting rug merchant.