The Icarus Prediction: Betting It All Has Its Price - Plot & Excerpts
It filled the warehouse with a raucous, biting resonance as Shamil Basayev himself bent double and fell to the floor. He pointed to the satellite news image on the screen and stammered “D-d-did you see thaaaaat? Ha-ha-ha-ha!” He tried to speak through the paroxysms of laughter. Like so many times before, Elbruk Matsil was befuddled by the behavior of these sadistic lunatics. The more time he spent among them, the more he became convinced the Russian invasion of Chechnya wasn’t the reason they engaged in terrorist acts. It was just the excuse. But the laughter? What had triggered it? An al-Jazeera news report on the destruction of the Russian pipeline had aired, and everyone had watched intently. But when the screen cut to Turkish soldiers patrolling past a ragged station post along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Basayev and his cronies burst into convulsions of laughter. What was he missing? Why the laughter? When Basayev had finally caught some of his breath back, Elbruk gently helped the terrorist to his feet.
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