Today’s
excerpt is from Back to Iraq, Book #2 of the nine-book Janitors Series. Soon after the 9/11 attack on America, the
Islamists plan another blow. Enjoy and
have a wonderful day.
m.j.
The
Janitors were not the only ones making plans.
Saddam Alwash, an al-Qaida-trained Iraqi, was in charge of the targeted
facility. With him were a mixed
nationality group of 72 al-Qaida members.
The underground man-made cavern was huge. The main corridor was thirty feet wide and
over two hundred feet long. It was used
for vehicle parking and had two sandbagged two-man machine gun defensive
positions in the unlikely (they thought) event that they were ever attacked. Four different areas off the main corridor
had from 3,000 to 5,000 square feet of space.
One of them was for berthing, one was for eating and recreation, one
housed weapons, and the largest contained a vast array of computer equipment.
The
entire encampment had poured concrete floors.
They had running water, a sewer system, and a self-contained power
system. The two entrances were manned
twenty-four hours a day, normally by two guards each at both ends of the
edifice. One of these led out into the
surrounding desert; the other led to an underground boat dock off the Euphrates
River, about ten miles north of the Iraqi town of Hit.
Immediately
after the glorious attack on the infidels, Saddam Alwash ordered that the
entrance guard be increased to four men during night-time hours and three during
daylight. He also ordered that the two
machine gun pods be manned at all times.
While
Alwash really didn’t expect any trouble, it didn’t hurt to be prepared. What he did not realize was that a man he
hated (without knowing who he was) would be the very man to bring trouble to
his doorstep. Aras Alwash, his cousin,
was in Federal Prison in the United States, where he would remain for the rest
of his life. Jim Scott had been the
person responsible for that, though neither Alwash cousin was aware of that
fact. Jim had busted up an Iraqi drug
ring led by Aras, and had been responsible for his arrest and subsequent
conviction. Now Saddam Alwash was about
to come face-to-face with the very same man, though neither Jim nor Alwash
would ever be aware of the unusual facts of fate involved.
Even
if he would have known that he would soon be in contact with Jim, Alwash would
have proceeded just as he did. He had,
to him, more important things on his mind.
One of his men was about to leave the facility with a small nuclear
device. He was to take it to America,
deliver it to al-Qaida members there, and help them deal the United States
another blow. The bomb, in a
suitcase-sized container, was one of four that would be used on America within
the next eight weeks…one every two weeks.
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