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"Well, to begin with, the good news is it seems all of the terrorists
who invaded the United States have either been killed or captured. Other
than a few stragglers who shouldn't be any problem to round up, the
threat of any overthrow of Claire Osterman's government is over," Mike said.

"What of the leader, Abdullah El Farrar?" Ben asked. "Any news of him?"

Mike's lips curled in a sardonic grin. "The last intel I have says he
returned to the Middle East, either Iran or Iraq, in disgrace for his
failure. I'm also told his family is none too happy with his aborted
attempt to destabilize

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the U.S. since it resulted in all of the family's assets being frozen."

"Oh, darn," Coop interjected sarcastically, "now they'll have to live
like all the other poor people they've been robbing for the past twenty
years."

Mike laughed. "Well, not really. They still have relatively substantial
funds available from bank accounts the U.N. wasn't able to find, but
their standard of living has definitely gone down."

"How about the governments that supported him in his takeover bid?" Ben
asked. "Are they still behind him?"

Mike shook his head. "Don't know, since our intel is limited over there,
but I would think not. They're not exactly fond of failure in that culture."

"So you think we can forget about El Farrar as a threat?" Buddy asked,
leaning forward, his head cocked to the side in a characteristic mannerism.

"I wouldn't go that far," Mike answered. "But I doubt we'll be hearing
anything from him for quite a while. After all, he lost almost
twenty-five thousand of their best troops. It should take him some time
to reestablish a force we'd need to be concerned with."

"I wouldn't be too sure of that," Harley Reno said.

"Oh?" Buddy asked.

Harley nodded. "Yeah. As you know, I spent some time over there a few
years back. There's no shortage of crazy young Muslims who are willing
to take a short ride to meet Allah by blowing themselves and any
followers of the Great Satan in the West up with them. If El Farrar
survives his return and isn't killed or disavowed by the leaders over