Bin Laden’s son fatal liking (на английском)
Barack Obama, the
President of the United States, increased the sound in his player. He was
listening to the famous jazzman Miles Davis. Then he took a cigarette and lit it. You couldn’t see him doing that often, especially lately.
In a minute he
called the CIA director again: "George, get to me at around four, will you?”
"I will, Mr.
President”.
From force of
habit the CIA director arrived at the President’s office thirty minutes
earlier. As soon as he entered the reception-room, Susan, the President’s
secretary, greeted him courteously and suggested that he should go in. Seeing
Tenet’s confusion and how he looked at his watch, she said: "Mr. President
asked you to come in as soon as you arrive”, and she added smiling "He knows you
always come earlier”.
The President was
writing something, but when he saw George Tenet, he put his writing aside and
asked him to take a sit. "Can you tell me in brief about that catch you’ve
got?” he asked.
"I see, this could
really be the catch”, the President agreed.
"And we already
have a plan, we’re working on details now”.
"By the way, I
also collect magnetic stickers. Perhaps I should ask Khalid to trade with me?” the
President’s face lit up and he asked Tenet with interest "Are you a collector,
George, by chance?”
"And do you still
believe he’s hiding in Abbottabad?” the President returned to the main theme of
their conversation.
"Yes, Mr.
President. Everything supports this. Even though we still can’t understand how
he was able to get away. In six days during the anti-terrorist operation over
sixty targets have been eliminated in the Zavar Kili region, where he was
supposed to be. The Brits fired over three hundred Tomahawks from their ships,
and our B-52 bombed the place heavily. Two weeks of constant bombardment razed the Tora Bora
mountains to the ground. Half, if not more of his thugs were cut down by our
pursuit planes during escape. Only a handful survived that fire. And he happened
to be one of them”, George Tenet, who could usually control himself, made a
helpless gesture with vexation.
"Well, we’ll get
him this year for sure”, the President reassured him. "They are no doubts you would use
the information to your advantage”.
***
The next day,
April 6th, 2011, the CIA headquarters gathered the heads of the
agency: George Tenet, the director, Stephen Kappes, the deputy director, deputy Michael Morell, Max Bolter, the head of the special operations forces
and his deputy – tall, dark-haired Rebecca Thompson.
Rebecca Thompson
closed her case and said "So did both Clinton and Bush”.
"Retail stale
news”, exclaimed Michael Morell. "You should also add Reagan and Carter to this
list”.
"In a word”, said
George Tenet, "if you want to be a president, you have to collect magnetic stickers”.
Everybody laughed and stood up.
***
Abu Ahmed
al-Kuwaiti, one of the many unremarkable citizens of Abbottabad, was leaving
the market, driving on his heavy-loaded donkey, when he saw the store. He took
the lead, stopped his animal, and began reviewing the contents of the store
window from afar More closely he examined the
part where the magnetic stickers were stored then he suddenly recollected something and hurried along.
The next day Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti drove to the store and, not bothering to barter, bought a dozen magnets. He carefully put them into his camel-skin bag and went along the fruit and vegetable counters. Then he dropped the lead and the donkey slowly made his way to a plain three-storied building, without landline telephone or Internet service, some 30 feet from the Kakul military academy.
It seemed that
nobody lives in this house, even though every day above-mentioned Abu Ahmed
delivered there a considerable amount of products.
***
The very next day the
American military base in Jalalabad was all in commotion: the long expected
information on the location of Geronimo has finally arrived. In a week, on
April 30th, 2011, Barack Obama, the President of the US, under
pressure from military departments and, especially, Hillary Clinton, the
Secretary of the State, approved the operation.
The same
day's night he owner of the store, whose name none ever found out (though it was known
to the selected few), loaded all his souvenirs into a small car and drove somewhere none
knew where. ( Later, to misinform the Pakistan government, a piece of information was spread that
the location of the Terrorist #1 had been determined with the help of doctors
conducting vaccination in the town. Unfortunately for him, vaccination in bin
Laden’s house was conducted by a Pakistani physician Shakil Afridi, who didn’t
suspect anything. Later he was sentenced by the Pakistan authorities to 33
years imprisonment.)
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