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moment over that line before I spoke again. “When would you like to hit them Nick?”
    “Friday is the Muslim congregation day. They’ll be reeling over their spoiled Saturday murder rampage. John believes Gilani will call his cohorts into a backroom or cellar meeting today. He and Cala will go in to pray at noon during the Dhuhr break for prayer. The chauvinistic pigs make the women pray behind the lines of men, but we’re thinking the crowd will be small. Cala will be able to get close behind John, ready for action. Chances are the hypocrite Gilani will join the people in the main hall for prayer. When prayer ends John will let us know how to proceed from there. If it goes as planned, he may be able to call Gilani aside to be controlled while we attack.”
    “It sounds like a lot of collateral damage,” Denny said. “Are you going to allow the mosque prayer visitors a chance to leave before we hit it?”
    Nick looked at me in confusion. “Whose idea was it to bring Snow White to the meeting?”
    Even Denny cracked up at Nick’s retort. “Sorry, Nick. We’ll play this out according to whatever John and Cala find inside the mosque. We’ll have six thousand lives and an international propaganda nightmare if we don’t discover every detail we can about the Starlight of the Seas assault.”
    “I figured Paul had explained he wants this masjid made into a lesson the cannibals in Isis and their enablers will understand. This will eventually hit the media as a hate crime. Since everything done by law against these bastards is considered a hate crime, what do we have to lose? We’ll show them what a real hate crime looks like. Paul plans to explain any fallout like the government does now when the religion of peace followers blow up or gun down innocent American civilians – they issue a statement that it was an unfortunate incident. We’ll be chalking up an unfortunate incident with proof of an armory and dead Islamist criminals, many John believes are here on false passports, imported to do Gilani’s bidding.”
    “Many regular worshipers have stayed away from the masjid since Gilani’s arrival, suspecting it has become a hideout and armory which will eventually become an FBI target,” John explained. “There will possibly be innocent people there. We will all be masked. If they dive to the floor and do not interfere maybe they will survive. If not, they will also become a lesson to other masjid members. It needs to become dangerous for Muslims to attend false masjids acting as hideouts and armories.”
    Nick clapped his hands together. “If we’re all through discussing the innocents about to give their lives for bad decisions, shall we lock and load? John will leave to get ready from his place. I saw you drove down in the big action van. I like it. I’ll show the masjid layout a few more times and go over the operation once inside. Then I brief Lucas on the sniper’s nest location and layout before we get him in position. Anyone need a grenade? You know… in case something goes wrong we need a more destructive force for.”
    Nick noticed our smiling silence. “Okay… okay… no grenades. Let’s get busy. Hey Clint, where the hell do you come from?”
    “None of your business. I don’t answer questions from cartoons.”
    Nick frowned. “That’s very hurtful, Nowhere Man.”
    “You cartoons are a bit too sensitive for my liking.”
    I liked this guy. The fact Lucas and Clint thought of him as family was only part of it. I could tell he thought of Denny as a means to an end. I cared a bit more for Denny but I thought of him in much the same way when we worked together.

Chapter Three
    Radicalized Solution
    “What do you think, Lucas?” I watched John and Cala enter the mosque with only a small episode with two men clearly discouraging the noontime prayer arrivals.
    “I have outstanding sight on all but the rear door, Cheese. If someone exits there, Gus will keep them in sight until I can get a