Desert Storm by Sandscribe

Author:Sandscribe [Sandscribe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22:

The Mission.

“Hey, Mo – in Alex’s room. What’s up?” she replied, having switched her radio to the secret channel they had pre-arranged when code ‘wenek’ was used.

The room phone rang, and Trisha answered immediately, knowing it was Mohammed. She knew this meant whatever he had to say to her, he didn’t want anybody else to hear on their comms system, not even on their private frequency.

“Sorry to ring you, habibti, but I’ve got some news…,” he was nearly hyperventilating with excitement.

“Go ahead, Mo – is it good or bad?” she asked lightly.

“Ha! Bit of both probably – who knows! But here’s the deal – that guy Alex and I interviewed the other da…,”

“You mean, the masked insurgent?”

“Yeah… him. He got in touch with me again today. They’re offering to take me with them on one of their missions – just me, and a small camera. No radio. No sat phone. No bodyguards. They won’t tell me exactly where – and they won’t tell me anything more about this ‘mission’. He just said they’d meet me along Sadoun Street, and keep me with them, blindfolded, till … well, till they strike. What do you say, Nur? I can do this. This will give us a huge exclusive. Alex can do the package with the footage I get… it will be astounding,” he pleaded.

He was right. This would be a huge exclusive. And if it went without a hitch, they might even have a prize-winning story. That’s if it went without a hitch. But letting him go with an insurgent group was also quite – controversial, never mind dangerous. It had never been done before. No other media group had had such an opportunity. Trisha knew it might be perceived as playing to the insurgents’ purposes, and allowing H.N.I. to unwittingly spread their propaganda. The coalition would definitely not be happy. She had to think. She had to think…

“Mo, could you come up here, please? I think we need to talk more about this… in person.”

When they put the phone down, she turned to Alex and told her what Mohammed had just proposed doing.

“Oh my God, T – that’s insane! To be blindfolded? By an armed insurgent group? How does he know he won’t be kidnapped? Or worse –,”

“I know… I know…,” Why am I even entertaining this idea, Trisha asked herself. If there was anything she learned fairly quickly working in Baghdad – it was that it was difficult to trust the stories you were told, and nothing was ever as it seemed. In the desert, each man had a different version of the truth, and when you dug through the surface, what was beneath had shifted with the digging. So how could they know Mo’s sources would hold to their word? How could she know there wasn’t more going on here than just – another news item? We’ve spent too much time tracking empty smoke trails…

“But then again,” Alex broke into her thoughts – “then again, they seem to trust him.

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