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hey finished their prayers at a roadside turn-out off I-20 and then got back in the car hoping God would send them some better news. The news continued to be bad. Every station they could find on the radio dial carried reports about what happened in Fort Worth, and it was not what the two ISIS operatives expected. The mission failed.
Most of the radio reports featured comments from some cursed Infidel who apparently interfered and wrecked their plan. Perhaps it was the will of Allah, Hasim speculated as he snapped off the radio chatter. Or perhaps it was poor planning and shoddy preparation, Wafic responded, lighting another of the cigarettes he’d been chain-smoking since they left Fort Worth.
Wafic cursed long and loud in florid Arabic about the damage to his professio
