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Byaitaka Wakinona woke instantly, confusion clouding his sleep-befuddled brain. He was in charge of the four men tasked with guarding the American. Technically, two of them were to remain awake while the other two slept. However, with forty men between them and the only entrance, they totally ignored the standing order.
Next to him the other three guards were stirring, and he realized with horror that the gunfire he’d heard wasn’t just in his dreams. He jumped up, grabbed his AK-47 and rushed over to the cage on his right. In the gloom he could just make out the shape of the sleeping American. If he had been clear-headed, he would have wondered why the prisoner hadn’t reacted to the sounds of gunfire. He aimed his automatic rifle at the sleeping man in the corner, but hesitated before
