Chapter Nine: DjiboutiThe pulsating beat of reggae music cannoned through the sparse vegetation closely followed by the thundering roar of approaching motor vehicles; however, no music or diesel engine noise could eclipse the rhythmical rat-tat-tat of machine guns as they were fired into the air by the columns of mercenaries announcing their arrival at the settlement at Sagi, deep into the desert of Ethiopia. By the time the guns were put away and the band of some thirty or so heavily armed individuals had satisfied their individual carnal requirements, seven men and three women were loaded into two of the open trunks and driven to the port city of Djibouti, the capital of the strategically important country of the same name on the tip of the Horn of Africa, at the entrance to the Suez Can
