Gravedigger by Mark Terry

Author:Mark Terry [Terry, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Spies & Politics, Espionage, Thriller, Thrillers, FIC002000, FIC031000, FIC02000, FIC006000
Amazon: B00BLQTELI
Publisher: OROX Books
Published: 2013-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

11

Derek pondered this a moment. He wasn’t surprised that Noa was here as an assassin. “Does this leader have a name?”

“Yes. He’s a Saudi named Osama bin Laden.”

“A Saudi?”

Johnston said, “During the Russian-Afghan war a lot of Muslims viewed it as an attack on Islam. So a lot of Muslims from various countries came to Afghanistan to become freedom fighters.”

Derek finished off his beans and goat and sipped at his mug of tea. “Which we were covertly funding and providing with weapons.”

“Yes,” Noa said.

“Good guys?”

She shook her head.

“Of course not. Okay. So is there any chance that Osama bin Laden and Mohammad Anwari and Sayed Hussein Rabbani are all camping out together?”

With a shrug, Johnston said, “Maybe.”

“I doubt it,” Noa said. “Sheikh bin Laden is not considered moderate. He seems to be affiliated, at least somewhat, with a group called Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.”

Derek put his hands up in a T-formation. “Time out. You expect me to keep these names straight?”

“HUM,” Noa said. “That easier?”

“Much. And bin Laden?”

“Call him OBL.”

“HUM and OBL. What about your two warlords, Jim? Any nicknames for them?”

The general shrugged again. “Not really. We’ve sort of dubbed them the potential northern alliance, but there’s no alliance. That’s sort of what I’m trying to encourage here.”

Derek stood up. His back and butt protested. He dreaded the idea of climbing back on that horse and the hideous saddle from hell. “So, HUM?”

“Muslim extremists from Pakistan, mostly in Kashmir.”

Derek paced. He really needed a couple hours of sleep. It was still raining as hard as ever. “What do they want?”

“They would like the entire world to become Muslim and live under extremely strict Sharia law.”

“I don’t know what the hell that is.”

An annoyed expression crossed Noa’s face. “The CIA sent you undercover in a Muslim country without any education on Islam?”

Derek grinned. “But I do know the chemical structure of VX nerve gas.”

“Charming.”

“And I’ve read the Bible numerous times, even the Old Testament.”

“That won’t help you much in Afghanistan.”

Turning to Johnston, Derek said, “What’s Sharia law?”

“The legal and moral teachings of the Koran.”

“And HUM wants everyone in the world to live by this?”

“Yes. And not as it’s practiced in the twentieth century, but how it was practiced in the first and second centuries.”

“For instance?”

“Think Iran under Khomeini,” Johnston said. “Think stonings and hangings and women not being allowed to go out in public without covering their hair and faces, or without the permission of their husbands, brothers, or fathers. Think females not being allowed to be educated – no school at all. Think Salman Rushdie going into hiding because the Ayatollah declared a fatwa on him because he wrote a novel nobody read called ‘The Satanic Verses.’”

“I read it,” Noa said.

“I understand,” Derek said. “So how do we find all these people, turn your northern alliance into a northern alliance, and assassinate this guy who wants Muslim nutballs to run the world?”

“I think we found HUM,” Noa said. “And you killed a bunch of them.”

Derek nodded. “Just doing my part.”

“We find people who can point us toward Mohammad Anwari and Sayed Hussein Rabbani,” Johnston said.

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