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He paged through the three photographs slowly in the privacy of his secure Washington, DC, office.
The largest remaining objects were the mangled remains of the two engines. There wasn’t a single thing left that looked like the plane he’d watched take off from Andrews Air Force Base last night.
Zooming in for details revealed a wide field of bodies.
He glanced at the report again.
No survivors.
Good.
It had been so easy, coaxing the three liberal-leaning senators from conservative states aboard. They needed to have a little junket to “properly understand” the Middle East situation. Now, the more conservative governors could choose who filled their seats until the next election. Ones who understood the threat of Russia’s presence in Syria, the Saudi’s kill squads, Iran’s Quds Forc
