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stored safely on the island.  A rolling, adjustable height scaffold was welded from steel tubing .  They planned to use the scaffold and a small generator powered pump to refuel the aircraft.  They expected the process to be excruciatingly slow compared to the high pressure/high volume single point method used at airports but it only had to be done once.  In late September, Dawoud called Haatim with the news that the Emirates pilot from Manila was chosen to fly as co-pilot on the inaugural flight of the Emirates Boeing 797 out of Kuala Lumpur where by Allah’s grace true believers were employed in the Emirates maintenance section.
    Only days a fter the euphoria induced by the thought of capturing the latest aircraft with the range to reach the great Satan and the load carrying capability to create a bomb of history making destruction, Dawoud told Haatim the Emirates Boeing 797 is unlikely to have overwing fueling capability.  This information came from one of Dawoud’s men, Samir, who worked at Manila International Airport as a fueler.  Samir said the earlier 787 did not have the capability as a result of the option being used so rarely on other Boeing aircraft that it was eliminated on the 787 as a cost and weight saving measure.  He was not sure but believed it would also be missing from the 797.  Immediately upon hearing this, Dawoud contacted the Emirates aircraft maintenance technician at KUL who was sympathetic to the cause.  Ikrimah, the technician, had recently returned from a training course provided by Boeing specifically on the 797 and he confirmed Samir’s bad news.  They would need a fuel truck with the high pressure pump and special valves and nozzles for single point fueling.  It was less than three weeks to the inaugural flight.  If they had a year they could not get one of the massive trucks to the island.
    Haatim was sick.  When he came to understand that Allah was testing him, he prayed and meditated.  He called Dawoud.  Was it possible to use only the pump, hoses, valves and nozzles from one of the trucks?  Dawoud, Labeeb, Dawoud’s second in command, and Samir and a second man in maintenance at MNL, met outside Manila.  Yes they could refuel using only the pump, hoses, valves and nozzles but removing the necessary parts from a fuel truck at the airport was not possible.  The three hour time window when the trucks were not required was simply too short.  It was risky but they formed a plan that would give them the time to strip the necessary parts from a truck and these they could transport to the island.  The man with Samir had access to the fuel trucks after his shift.  The next night the man drained the engine oil from one of the trucks.  He ran the engine until it seized and then replaced the oil.  The next morning when a fueler came for the truck, it did not start.  The trucks are in high demand so in a short time it was towed to a repair shop away from the airport.
    At the repair shop the next evening they had twelve hours to remove the parts.  That was accomplished without stress.  The risk lay in the authorities hearing of the theft of the specific parts which implied someone planned to refuel a modern airliner away from a commercial airport.  Haatim wanted no speculation among Satan’s intelligence agencies about where or when that might occur.  He proposed burning down the repair shop to cover the theft but Dawoud said the owner of the shop was a true believer and should not be asked to bare such a burden when there were others ways available.  Dawoud arranged with the owner to notify him of completion of the engine repairs a day before notifying the fuel vendor at the airport.   One of Dawoud’s men would steal the truck, drive to a remote location and drop a grenade into the fuel tank filled with jet-A fumes.  The conflagration would destroy all evidence of theft.
    Four days after their meeting , Dawoud called Haatim and told him a crate was to arrive for him