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"Yes," Mike agreed, "but he seems to be very appealing to an entire
continent of people who feel their heritage and lands have been stolen
from them by white, non-Muslim interlopers. My intel says he's developed
quite a following."

"You can't be too worried about a bunch of Arab types riding around in
the desert on horseback, can you?" Jersey asked.

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Mike shrugged. "We weren't, until we found out that El Farrar has
acquired huge stores of weapons and war materiel that the previous
leader, Saddam Hussein, had stockpiled. There's even some talk that he
may have some nuclear missiles in his arsenal."

"How large is his army?" Ben asked, leaning forward and putting his
elbows on his desk, interested now.

"Over a hundred thousand at last count," Mike said, "and still growing.
Intel has information that his forces are spreading out across the
entire area over there, absorbing more and more materiel as they overrun
the United Nations forces and confiscate their weapons and ammunition."

"What does Jean-Francois Chapelle think of all this?" Ben asked,
referring to the Secretary General of the U.N.

"He didn't seem too worried, until El Farrar began to widen his sphere
of influence. Now, he's biting his nails down to the quick. Word is,
he's tried to reason with El Farrar, to no avail."

"Any idea of just how big El Farrar's ambition is?" Ben asked.

Mike nodded. "He's telling his followers, which includes just about
every fundamentalist Muslim in the Middle East, that he plans to take
over the USA, then Europe, and eventually the entire world."

Harley Reno laughed out loud. "At least he doesn't think small."

"Surely he can't be that naive," Ben remarked.

Mike glanced at Ben. "No, he doesn't think he can storm the countries
involved. He knows his army is too small for mat, and must know the
other countries in the U.N. wouldn't allow that. However, he has a huge
terrorist network of fanatical members devoted to his ideals. My guess
is he plans to institute a pogrom against the USA by infiltrating
terrorists into the country a few at a time, and at some later date, set
them loose to use terrorist tactics to destabilize the government up there."

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