Damascus Countdown by Joel C. Rosenberg

Author:Joel C. Rosenberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Suspense, Suspense, FICTION / Suspense
ISBN: 9781414319704
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

LANGLEY, VIRGINIA

“What else?” Murray asked Eva, not sure he really wanted to know but having no other choice.

“A few more things,” she replied. “First, Mohsen Jazini is now the acting defense minister and commander in chief of all Caliphate armed forces.”

“Says who?”

“The Mahdi personally, in a phone call to Jazini,” Eva said. “I’m forwarding you the transcript.”

“What about Faridzadeh?” Murray asked.

“He’s out.”

“Why?”

“The Mahdi didn’t say. Just told Jazini he was, quote, ‘impressed by your memo and want you to start executing the first section immediately.’”

“That’s odd.”

“It is, but there’s more.”

“What?”

“Okay, second, I’ve got a strange set of intercepts here that I don’t quite know what to make of, but they’re . . . I don’t know exactly. They’re giving me the willies.”

“What do they say?”

“One is of the Twelfth Imam talking to President Mustafa in Syria,” Eva said. “He tells Mustafa to start killing all the Jews and Christians in the country.”

“Why?” Murray asked. “The man has already slaughtered more than thirty-two thousand people over the past eighteen months.”

“I know, but that’s what he said,” Eva replied. “And when Mustafa said Syria wanted to join the Caliphate, the Mahdi told him Syria could join the Islamic empire but couldn’t yet join the war against Israel.”

“Why not?”

“He didn’t say exactly, but he did say he was sending Mustafa some special guests and that they should be well cared for.”

“Who?”

“Again, he didn’t say. Not on that call. But there were several other calls that didn’t seem so important at first but might be. It seems the Mahdi is in touch—indirectly, mind you, but in touch nonetheless—with the IRGC hit team that took out President Ramzy in New York. He told Darazi to order the hit team to travel from Venezuela through Cyprus and Beirut to Damascus and await instructions there.”

“You think the Mahdi is planning to assassinate Mustafa?” Murray asked.

“No.”

“But you think this hit team are the ones the Mahdi told Mustafa to prepare for?”

“Mmm, no, I don’t think so,” Eva replied.

“Then what?”

“I don’t know,” Eva admitted. “I really don’t. The ‘special friends’ the Mahdi referred to seemed like people at a higher level, at least to me, but I can’t tell you why. It’s just . . . it was the adjective he used in Farsi for the word special. It means, you know, very special, like a VIP or a high-ranking official or someone very close to you, someone in the family. I’m not sure. I’m going on instinct here, Tom, but something’s going on in Syria. I wish I could tell you what, but I can’t. But I think we should start putting more attention on trying to figure it out.”

Murray shook his head. “Look, Eva, we’ll do what we can, but we can only do so much at this point. Our top priority is finding those two warheads. Right now I’d say our second-highest priority is trying to thwart this deal between the Mahdi and the Pakistanis. I need to brief the director on that ASAP and make sure he briefs the president and the National Security Council.

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