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Tuesday, September 11th 2001 8:46 am-10:28 am.
         Flashbacks of smoke and ash filling his lungs began to haunt him. The smell of steel, concrete, flesh and blood gagged him, even in memory.
         He continued to click.
         2,976 victims and nineteen hijackers.
         Forty victims on United 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
         Fifty-nine  victims on American 77, which landed on the Pentagon killing another 125 people.
         Sixty  deaths on United 175 and eighty-seven deaths on American 11, which were the two that hit the Twin Towers killing 2,605.
          The only thing Jason saw in that 2,605 was one. He selfishly imagined that number being 2,604.
         He looked at the pictures of the towers and the people diving out of the top floors. She was gone—so young -- to such a heinous, ignorant, uninformed act. I should have stopped her from going.
         Jason began to wonder who dropped the ball on that day to have let such a horrific thing happen. He was angry that they didn’t track such an elaborate plan in advance. Is this on me? Jason wondered.
         He pulled up ‘the number of deaths’ breakdown. Airliners. Who was the Administrator of Transportation Security? He thought.
         He searched to find the name of a man who currently held the position of executive, Christopher Yeager.
         As he probed deeper through their files, despite their apparent foreknowledge of the situation, no drastic action was taken. None of this came across my desk ?
         One of the officers in that department was Tameka Washington. He searched Tameka in the databases to find that she was a Behavior Detection Officer in the TSA department. Their job was to observe the behavior of passengers going through security checkpoints.  
          He pulled up her death certificate.
         "Cause of death: ‘Homicide.’" It said.
         Jason decided to research the details of her death. He logged into the central system. Entering his removable drive into the USB port, he began to skim through the details of the report. “Two emotionless men visited her days before her death. They posed as different entities.”
         Jason also downloaded the files, and saved them as “Tameka Files” onto his phone.
         Closing down the Tameka Files, he clicked the next tab to find another letter from bin Laden to Americans, dated October 2002.
         "You are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind: You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitutions and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate Religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator."
         The next tab was labelled "Response". “N/A” was the official conclusion. At the top of the page the very unpopular President's approval rating soared into the ninety percentile. That was the first time he had seen that statistic.
         On that same page in bold red letters read the sentence, "Commence with Operation FAITH".
         What is that?
        The next tab in the report was labeled, “SUMMIT".
         As he clicked the tab the first thing he saw labelled at the top was Operation FAITH, before he could click further, the computer screamed out, and the screen flashed a red message:
         ::ERROR: ACCESS NOT PERMITTED.::
         His phone began to beep violently, as did his computer screen. Red letters flashed: "Devices being tracked, abort activity immediately."
         Jason dropped to his knees and barrelled under his desk pulling every plug out of the surge protector. Numerous computers in the immediate vicinity shut down. He pulled his cell phone, which displayed the same urgent messages, out of his desk, and popped the battery out of the back of it.
         With his heart now  racing, he listened outside of the door of