Weapons
Hellfire 9RX — Assassination Missile With No Warhead
It’s almost medieval: a soft target can be eliminated without an explosion or collateral damage
Imagine it
It’s 31st July 2022, your last morning before you meet Allah, but you don’t know it.
You have just completed morning prayers and you do what you have loved to do every day for the last few months. You open the windows of your room near the top of the house in the Sherpur neighbourhood of Kabul. You sit down on the balcony to watch the sun rise over the city.
The sky is clear, the sun is red as it rises, shining through the warming, dusty air. There is a mix of smells teasing your nostrils, a mix unique to Kabul, but for once the odour of death is not one of them.
Your family are downstairs, just starting their day.
Watching the sun rise from your balcony is one of your few indulgences but is a big mistake. For almost two decades you have been Moscow’s man inside Al Qaeda, but you have forgotten your FSB training.
You have been under surveillance for some weeks and your sunrise habit has been noted by the CIA — you are on the CIA’s hit list and have been for many years.
