ASSASSINS by Mike Bond

Author:Mike Bond [Bond, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mandevilla Press
Published: 2016-12-15T07:00:00+00:00

Need to Know

“IHAVE SURPRISING NEWS,” Suley said.

Wahid grunted. “You often think you do.”

“Last week in Kabul I went by the orphanage where that spineless fool Ahmad kept me. He hasn’t obeyed the edict. Hasn’t sent all the boys to the madrasah. Even worse.”

Suley liked to stretch out his stories, make himself important, the little popinjay. Wahid motioned for him to leave. “I’m thinking of more important things. Battles, changes in the law. People must be controlled to create a perfect Islamic republic.”

“I saw a woman there... Your brother’s living with a whore.”

Wahid said nothing. Then, “You should not have told me.”

“The truth should always be told. Whatever filthy secrets, perversions, the Devil’s dealings people do –”

“How did you learn this?”

“Long ago I killed three Pashtùn in a cellar. I told you this when I first came to you. They were holding a woman and doing it to her. One left his rifle on the stairs. I killed them. And now, when I was checking the orphanage... it’s the same woman.”

“It can’t be. That Ahmad would take...”

Suley leaned back, his eyes narrow under deep lids. “Suppose it were known that the Eagle of the Hindu Kush has a whoremonger for a brother? What would that make you?”

After Suley left Wahid sat thinking. The desert people long ago told how Kâbil and Hâbil, Cain and Abel, each had a twin sister, and God told Adam to order each to marry the other’s twin sister. This Kâbil would not do, wanting his own sister because she was more beautiful. “So you each make an offering to God,” Adam said, “let Him decide.”

Kâbil offered God a sheaf of his worst corn, while Hâbil the little ass-kisser gave up his fattest lamb. God’s fire came down in a tornado from Heaven and consumed the fat lamb, but didn’t touch the corn of Kâbil. Kâbil turned with righteous anger on his brother saying, “You have shamed me. I will slay you.”

Hâbil the spineless fool taunted Kâbil, “God only accepts the offerings of the pious. Even if you raise your hand to slay me I won’t raise mine at you, for I fear only God.”

So the Devil showed Kâbil how to kill Hâbil, by crushing the head of a lapwing between two stones. But once Hâbil was dead Kâbil stupidly felt guilty, for a long time carried the stinking corpse of his brother on his back. Till God sent down a raven to kill another raven and scratch with his claws a hole in the earth to bury it, showing Kâbil how to bury Hâbil. And the children of Kâbil inherited the earth.

If God hadn’t wanted this, how could it have happened?

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