31 In the confines of the corridor, the battle was intense. Team Two was being held at the breach point by stiff opposition from the terrorists who had assumed defensive positions by the doorways lining the corridor. Their firepower was augmented by fighters retreating from the vehicle bay. A few blasts from his pilfered AK47 — intentionally directed at the pickups, rather than the crouch-running SAS troop — was enough to earn Terzi a place in the scrum around Hussein.
A terrorist near Terzi fell. Terzi pivoted, was about to fire to slow the SAS approach, when he heard the kid shouting, “We need him alive!” He was referring to Terzi because a hand grabbed Terzi’s collar and yanked him into the midst of the scrum, sending his gunfire wild at the ceiling. Another Islamist was sacrificed in
