Chapter 45
Say: the Angel of Death, put in charge of you,
Will (duly) take your souls,
Then shall you be brought back to your Lord.
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Quran 32:11
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Earth - March 30, 2003
Al-Najaf Airstrip, Iraq
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Elisabeth held onto her seat for dear life. Eyes scrunched shut; she swallowed the bile which had regurgitated into one sinus cavity, burning as it went. The ear-splitting whump whump whump of blades on the Sikorsky MH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter was not loud enough to drown out the sound of small-arms fire peppering their ride with bullets.
“I thought they weren’t supposed to shoot at vehicles with the Red Cross on it?” Mary shouted into the mouthpiece of her headphones. “This is a hospital evac chopper!”
“Last I heard,” Lucy answered, “Saddam Hussein and his cronies weren’t exactly cho
