New York Office Story A novel

Chapter Two-Shut Down-(Part two)

Ray scanned the New York UN Building.

He watched for Arabs.

"Ok, we're looking for Farhan Dubroh".

"Is he a Afghan insurgent?", Mark Denning enquired.

"Yes. He was born in LA. He is a convert to Islam".

"Jesus! It's time to kick them out of America".

"You can't do that. There's rules of engagement to process".

"Hey, this is 2013. ROE doesn't apply in 2013. Let's kick the sucker out of America". And he grabbed his assault rifle...and opened the black colored limousine's passenger-side window...and fired into the building.

***

The screams of the New York crowd caused mayhem.

"OK! ENOUGH! WE NEED TO GET OUR TARGET...NOT DO A BRUCE WILLIS ACT". Ray stared at Mark.

"He's in there".

"We know he...", and then Farhan opened the front door.

And he pressed the button on the bombs that was strapped to his chest. The timer was set at 3:00. And, as the beeping noise begun, Mark fired into his chest.

"Wahab Allah!", he shouted.

"What is he saying?".

"The Gift of Allah!", Ray translated.

And then the timer ran down to 0.

And the insurgent exploded...and died.

***

Salah Cassel, the UN Diplomat to the US, screamed. She ran into the back door. Everyone was scrambling to get out.

"Why? Are we punished for attacking America?".

She knew what her Mother did.

You must die...to serve the Prophet Muhammad; you must die to serve Islam, she told her daughter. She didn't want to be a suicide bomber; she didn't want to explode in front of innocent people. It was bloody.

I'm going to America, and live there, she informed her.

And her Mother hit her.

And then she knew she was betraying her religion. But, in the end, living in Afghanistan was a hellhole; living in New York, was freedom from the enemy within.

She ran outside.

Ray saw her.

And then she saw the body...and fainted.

***

"Who are you?", Ray saw her.

"Salah Cassel. I am a the US Ambassador to the UN. I work for them for 5 years. I am dual US/Afghan passports".

"Well, please come with us. The UN is shut down...immediately". He grabbed her right hand. Mark was being too arrogant to think straight.

"You ruined us".

"We got our man".

"He is a patsy...He is old school terrorist. The Debt Ceiling is more important than 9/11". She stared at the blood on the ground.

"Are you dishonouring the dead?".

"No. 3,000 people is less than the six million of Jews who died in the gas chambers of the SS; or the thousands of Palestine soldiers who died between 1948 and 1967. Isreal can have their territory; Palestine can have their territory.

"Besides, 9/11 was a 'false flag event'".

"That is outrageous!".

"Listen, my soldiers died liberating The Middle East...".

"There was no liberation; there was only death".

"President Bush...".

"President Bush read a children's book backwards. I saw Michael Moore's movie. I know the rising cost of terrorism; I know that America is...insolvent".

"We're not insolvent".

"The Treasury owes: US16,963,794,390,038...And rising every second".

"That's rubbish".

"President Obama can't pay that money back by February, 2014".

"He can".

"No. You'll be out of a job by Christmas, 2013".

"I don't...".

And then the President's Secret Service Agents arrived. They aimed their own guns at them. And aimed it at Ray's head.

***

New York FBI HQ,

Interrogation Room 3

3:00 AM

Fifty Washington, DC Secret Service Agents stared at Ray. He sat on a brown colored chair. He was cracking his knuckles.

"Look, I didn't shoot the windows out...".

FBI Agent Danielle Harrison, 35, fired a stare at him.

"Agent Mark Denning is now charged as a urban terrorist. He shot 45 windows out of the Federal UN Building. He'll die from lethal injection".

"You-".

"Since the World Trade bombings in 1993, we had kept a "Dossier of Terror". The Waco, Texas attacks the same year; the 1995 Oklahoma bombings; the 1998 Anthrax attacks; and 9/11. Post 9/11 we've had the LA sniper attacks; the Trayvon Martin racist attacks of 2012; and the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013.

"And then there's the traitors of America in the 1990's. Those who gave US TOP SECRET material to the Russians".

"Well, that was a long time ago...".

"Ok, pretty boy. Since WWII, America hasn't won any war for the past 70 years. We are beholden to China, Australia, and the UK. And other countries. Since 2002, 6, 600 US troops have died in The Middle East. It is time to get them out.

"The new threat is the Debt Ceiling. Because you left school at 14, you have no knowledge of higher education...hence, you're too stupid to see the Big Picture".

"I don't need you tell me...Hey, how did you get my school report?".

"I have all the US Military's records".

"I'll get my Lawyer...".

"Too bad. You didn't scream 'Lawyer' at the beginning".

"This is a stitch up".

"There is one choice out of this mess, Ray. You state you wanted to arrest Farhan legally...And I won't ask for the lethal injection".

"I didn't do it. I wanted to him to come out of the Building".

"Good. Now, go to bed. It's late!".

And, with that, the interview was over.

It was 4:00 AM.

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