Desert Fire (2012)
“It was the middle of the night, and they’d been traveling since before nightfall, straight across the desert, keeping well away from population centers. Hussein was paranoid, and the security measures designed to protect him were extraordinary. Whenever he left his command bunker in the capital city, he traveled in mufti and in secret.
He got out of the third vehicle, five of his armed bodyguards surrounding him, and walked a few yards along the ridge, a smile creasing his jowly features.
Below..., nearly filling the valley, was a mammoth construction project. Even at this hour thousands of lights illuminated the spires and scaffolding and thousands of miles of pipes and gridwork. A continuous stream of trucks and earth-moving equipment went in and out. High-voltage transmission lines came across the desert from Baghdad in the east, from Turkey in the north, from Syria in the west and even from Saudi Arabia in the south.
Peace was upon his nation. And this place would become the jewel of Iraq.MoreLess
He got out of the third vehicle, five of his armed bodyguards surrounding him, and walked a few yards along the ridge, a smile creasing his jowly features.
Below..., nearly filling the valley, was a mammoth construction project. Even at this hour thousands of lights illuminated the spires and scaffolding and thousands of miles of pipes and gridwork. A continuous stream of trucks and earth-moving equipment went in and out. High-voltage transmission lines came across the desert from Baghdad in the east, from Turkey in the north, from Syria in the west and even from Saudi Arabia in the south.
Peace was upon his nation. And this place would become the jewel of Iraq.MoreLess
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