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Chapter Six
Cade left his coat and gun with John, and for appearances' sake, both Mandi
and Cade were taken to the doorway of 831 to let the terrorists see them putting
on Kevlar vests as they received platitudinous encouragements.
When they were finally sent into the room, Hamad Marjeel stopped them at the
doorway and one of his men quickly frisked them for weapons and checked their
gear before allowing them to pass. The man then shoved ahead of them into the
room to take up a position at one side of the bed.
Marjeel and the other two men appeared to be in their twenties and thirties
and wore western clothing. All were clean-shaven and only their weapons and
attitudes made them look more like terrorists than a trio of off-duty yuppies.
As Mandi and Cade emerged from the room's short hallway past the bathroom,
they saw two women in their sixties lying stiffly on the bed. A man on each side
of the bed held a pistol aimed at each woman's head and Marjeel held a black
Beretta 9mm pistol aimed generally between Mandi and Cade.
In a tone dripping with disdain, Marjeel said, "Welcome, friends of the
media.
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