Other Americas by Norman Spinrad

Author:Norman Spinrad [Spinrad, Norman]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780575117365
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2012-12-20T22:00:00+00:00

“This is Radio K-RAB, the Rockin’ Voice of the A-rabs, beamin’ a hundred thousand watts of Good Vibrations right at ya, all you crazy Shiite and Sunni mamas and papas you, from our Ship of Rock and Roll Fools out here in the Gulf, and here’s the Big Number Twelve on Radio K-RAB today, Jihad Jump by Abou Abou and the Hashishins, right after this word from Kalashnikov, the state of the art in automatic rifles, and at a price you don’t have to be an oil sheik to afford!”

Armand Deutcher turned off the air feed before the commercial could come on and returned his attention to the world news monitors he had had jury-rigged in the control room of the seaborn pirate radio station.

Even as Zvi Bar David had predicted, Hassan al Korami had not waited for the full shipment of Sword of Hassan cruise missiles to arrive before he did his dingo act. So far, so good.

Now NBC was reporting that the Israelis had issued their own ultimatum. Hassan had four days to surrender his nuclear cruise missiles to Israel or they would take them out with their mighty high-tech air force without the need to resort to nuclear preemption. Since Koram had threatened Israel with nuclear annihilation, they could hardly be blamed by world opinion if they launched an all-out air attack against the miscreant as long as they righteously kept their own nukes hidden under the rug.

And now Radio Msocow was reporting that Hassan al Korami was falling right into the trap. He had just declared that the moment an Israeli aircraft crossed his borders, he would annihilate Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheba, Eilat, and the Jordan River irrigation system.

They were goading Hassan into it. The Israelis would probably wait till the deadline just to keep him getting hotter. Then they would hit the Sheikdom of Koram with about a thousand or so drone fighter-bombers firing Pitchfork metal-seeking missiles, which would destroy Korami's forces utterly while the world stood on and cheered.

Deutcher only hoped that the Israelis wouldn’t be too efficient. He had several billion francs riding on Hassan getting at least one of his cruise missiles off the ground before they were taken out by the Israeli luftblitz, and he would be a lot happier if the Israelis made sure he fired first.

After all, what difference did it make to them? Even if the Lion of the Desert managed to launch all five, the Israelis would just dump them all into the sea anyway, or so at least they should think.

Now there was danger of a major financial setback. Deutcher had counted on the Israelis wanting to let Hassan get at least one missile in the air so they could make him hit Mecca, indeed he had given Zvi Bar David the idea free of charge.

Then, with the mighty hundred-thousand-watt transmitter of K-RAB, the Rockin’ Voice of the A-rabs, he could take control of the missile that the Israelis took away from Hassan’s controllers and use it where it would do the most good.

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