CROSSFIRE: Ex-CIA JON BRADLEY Thriller Series (TERROR BLOODLINE Book 1) Read Free Page B

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    Youssef Hariri was a double agent, and the Mossad operatives were able to obtain more information from him than what he passed on to the FBI agents. 
    Through personal threats and rewards, the local Mossad Katsa forced Youssef to compromise with his father and during this process he also interacted with the new tenants, although they were always on their guard.
    But, Youssef did learn that one of the Jihadists’ had family relatives living in Manhattan. That Lebanese Muslim-family
    had recommended them his father’s house as available for rent in the N.Y. City suburbs.
    One of the men from the Lebanese family in Manhattan had been coerced by the underground militants to act as the conduit for the cell’s armory, though he was himself not a Jihadist.
    The Mossad realized that they had to act before the destructive weapons were delivered.  So far, the terrorists were able to receive only one clandestine supply of small arms, since the conduit living in Manhattan was under the active surveillance of the Mossad Katsas.
    However, they could not discount the possibility that the Islamic-Jihadist cell had other sources of supply interacting in their suicide-mission.  After all, the extremists held the would-be sacrificial martyrs in high esteem.
    Acting independently of the FBI, NYPD and the other law enforcement agencies, Mossad Kats a had traced the cell of the suicide mission planners to their lair in Yonkers and put them under their own surveillance.   
    Abdullah, Youssef and the conduit in Manhattan had already compromised the existence of Jihadists’ terror-cell to the Mossad.
    Information had come to light that the Jihadists were awaiting the final consignment of the weapons and the signal to initiate the attacks on the two Synagogues from the Lebanese mastermind, the unidentified Hezbollah illegal arms trafficker.
    The Israelis were at first hoping to trace and trap the man, but realizing the volatility of the situation and the unpredictability of the Jihadist’s mind, they could not risk delaying the capture or destroying the Jihadists’ cell.
    A four-man Kidon (trained assassins) team was dispatched from Tel Aviv, Israel, travelling separately via Germany and Spain, under false names and passports, to be joined by the local Mossad Katsa field operatives.  The Mossad Kidon was the most feared of among the intelligence operatives.
    They took shelter in a safe house arranged by one of the New York Sayanim , the local non-Israeli Jews who volunteer to provide logistic support, including weapons, for any Israeli overseas operation.
    At about 1.15 AM, two black Peugeot sedans with false number plates and forged registration papers, containing seven men and one woman, headed towards the inner suburbs of the N.Y. City - the Yonkers locality where the Hezbollah-Jihadist operatives resided. 
    Eli Reznik, their commander was a short, muscular, non-descript middle-age man with thinning black hair, who sat beside the seemingly plain-looking (otherwise attractive), slim, pony-tailed woman driver, bat leveyha , a female agent, of the first car. The weather was cold and dark outside.
    The Mossad team, including the woman, was casually dressed – in a black T-shirt, black leather jacket and gray trousers. All the men carried between themselves an arsenal of weapons; Uzi short-barrel machine pistols equipped with silencers, two AK-47s, Beretta handguns, M26 combat grenades and M48 stun-grenades. All were stolen from various illegal weapons traffickers.
    Each wore a Kevlar bulletproof vest under their normal clothing.
    The 22-years old, something female Kidon was equipped with the only M24 sniper rifle. It was her first mission abroad upon graduating as a Kidon.
    Tensed, as the team members were with the thoughts of the oncoming mission, they understood it as a necessary task to do or die since they were dealing with hardened terrorists seeking the glory of martyrdom, being brainwashed with the after-death rewards of a