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Galkacyo was going to be far trickier. The pirates would be nervous. They had more than thirty hostages, all in a single location. They’d be keeping tight guards around them. So Bill and Michael had cooked up a different tactic, a variation on Mog.
Unlike that strike that had been in the most populous and most dangerous center of the country’s largest city, they’d now convinced Hassan Abdullah Abdi to gather the hostages at a single secure location—his compound. One night would be enough. He had thankfully built it on the southeast edge of the city, up on a bluff. It wasn’t for the view, as he’d built a large wall around it, too high to allow a view of the surrounding desert. It reflected old-style, colonial thinking, from when ground forces were your only threat.
What made it defens
