Righteous Fear by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2020-02-25T18:57:26+00:00

Chapter Eight

Krahiat Majnuna listened to the police scanner. The garage at his gas station was a hive of nervous activity as the rest of the cell wondered what the response to Ghamdi’s shooting would be. Right now, he did hear an all-points bulletin that sought Dr. Annis Hassan, but there were no orders for officers to shoot to kill.

Maybe they wouldn’t put such an announcement over even the relatively secure airwaves of police radio, but Majnuna’s scanner wasn’t something bought at a department store. It was the latest technology, and had the best encryption-cracking hardware and software that the Jihad could pay for. If the Mobile police had technology better than the Central Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency, then the Islamist State had underestimated the Deep South.

Hadib Asada looked up from where he was cleaning a field-stripped Beretta, and noticed Majnuna across the desk from him, earpiece held to his head by two fingers.

“Anything?” Asada asked.

Majnuna shook his head. “And there’s nothing that says they are searching for anyone matching our appearance. They are looking at an abandoned parking lot full of dead Southerners with assault rifles.”

“Someone stole our thunder?” Asada questioned. “Full of dead Southerners...”

“We’re talking the whole package. Fifteen and counting,” Majnuna reported. “It was in a secluded area, but the corpses were fresh after someone called them all in.”

Asada frowned. “A bunch of armed men, all of them killed. It is the Soldier.”

“Don’t mention him.”

“It’s too late. If he’s protecting Hassan, he knows about us,” Asada explained. “We’re on his hit list.”

“You think those dead men were also against the doctor?” Majnuna asked.

“You saw him at her apartment. You watched him destroy those others. He probably had a prisoner whom he dangled as bait to bring more of them,” Asada said. “She was in the news because of an attack on the women’s health center. So, those dimwits probably thought that she was an abortion doctor.”

“She’s an abortion doctor?”

Asada shook his head. “No. From what I’ve overheard, the women’s health center doesn’t get money for that. They apparently have ties to planned parenthood organizations, but they spend more effort on other things. If anything, they do more to protect pregnancies and mothers than to end them.”

“You mean to tell me that American religious thugs don’t get the facts on who they’re trying to kill?” Majnuna asked.

Asada chuckled. “We know who our enemy is. They don’t care. We have the righteous will of God behind us, while they succumb to the ideals of false prophets.”

Majnuna grumbled. “Sounds like the shit that they say about us.”

“That’s why I laughed,” Asada returned.

“You don’t believe in the Jihad anymore?” Majnuna asked.

“I believe. As a means to an end,” Asada said. “The Jihad’s ultimate goals mean we profit. We get a world that conforms to our needs. Where women are put in their proper place and we only have to acknowledge them when they fulfill our needs.”

“Yes. I’m not a young man anymore. My religious zeal has been tamed by age and experience.

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