Darque had to smile at the audacity of the plan he was listening to, and hoped it would be able to be carried out the way it was being explained. “How will our troops be extracted?” Darque asked. Josh once again took over the briefing. “Once they reach the pumping station in the desert, they’ll re-enter the modified oil tanker and be transported to a pick-up point deeper in the desert where they’ll be dropped off for the final leg of their return trip to Israel, and the tanker will return to its place of origin for removal of the modifications.” “And what’s the ‘final leg’?” Darque asked. “When they reach the pick-up point, they’ll be met by a Russian MI-17 helicopter and flown to the air strip from which they departed on the mission,” said Josh. At the announcement of the airc

