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HALO
Top of Tower Fall
A helicopter gunship swung into the mouth of the Devil’s Den gorge, and an FBI sniper leaned out the open door. Jana was seated upright against the base of a pine tree and watched the chopper hover at eye-level to her. The thumping rotor sounds reverberating out of the canyon were so loud they drowned out the roar of the waterfall. The sniper was focused on something at the bottom of the falls and his hand closed into a fist, signaling the pilot to stop and hover.
He raised the rifle and aimed through the scope, but upon seeing the lifeless, blood-soaked body of Waseem Jarrah, torn and contorted across the rocks, he saw no need to fire. The man was dead. He and the other three operators in the gunship raised binoculars to scan the rim of the canyon.
When one
