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By Gary Ritter
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“Excuse me. I see you have Bible. I always curious. Perhaps you tell me about it?”
Surprised, the man responded first by introducing himself as Derek. He proceeded to ask Reza some questions and began telling him about the Christian faith.
Reza appeared interested and maintained the conversation for some time. Eventually he pleaded the need to sleep. Derek obviously didn’t want to let the opportunity die, so Reza asked him for information about his church in the U.S. so that perhaps he could visit and learn more. That satisfied Derek and Reza mentally pulled away.
At Customs in New York Reza reassured Derek of his interest. “I see you soon in your church.” They parted with a smile lingering on Derek’s lips.
Upon collecting his bags Reza retrieved the prescription bottle from among his possessions and climbed into the limo specially earmarked for him. Inside the swarthy man beside him said, “You have the pills?”
Reza pulled the bottle from his jacket. Swarthy said to him, “Take one.”
This was Reza’s moment of reckoning. He had signed up for this assignment and had anticipated the reward. In fact, his mother had raised him to aspire to this. Taking this step would bring everlasting pride to his mother, his family, and eternal glory to him. Yet the act itself was so hard!
The other man said, “You hesitate. Are you a coward?”
Reza couldn’t allow himself to be thought of that way. He shook his head, swallowed the capsule, and handed the full container with the remainder of them to his companion.
Swarthy said, “Did you make contact on the plane as commanded?”
“Yes, I going to large Christian church.”
The limo delivered Reza to his hotel and the men parted with Swarthy exhorting Reza, “May Allah be with you.”
Over the next couple weeks Reza made contact with Derek by attending his church, in fact going to every possible service and meeting connected with it that he could. Derek was pleased and amazed that his witnessing had brought such a fruitful response in Reza.
As the fateful day approached Reza spent many hours of his free time reading the Qur’an and faithfully praying to Mecca. In his contemplation he deliberated on how clever his brothers were.
They had seen the opportunity to bring down the Great Satan through the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Through careful steps and severe isolation at every turn one of their own had collected virus-riddled body fluids from a dying man in Liberia and brought them to their labs in North Africa. With meticulous handling the remains had been inserted into capsules. A runner had brought them in the marked prescription bottle to Belgium where Reza had awaited his assignment.
He was to become Ebola-jihadist number one and infiltrate a Christian church, if at all possible eventually becoming sick in the very midst of the congregation. Swarthy’s job was to distribute the capsules to other committed men ready to die for the cause of worldwide caliphate. They would in turn begin outbreaks in different cities around the country. It was an undetectable plot and foolproof. Allah be praised.
It was Sunday morning. Reza began to sweat. The virus incubation period was over. He quickly dressed and left for church.
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