Syl,

Part of the “fun” or “fear” depending on how one feels at a given moment, is pondering things like the capture of this Kahn character and wondering what the circumstances are.

Did we really capture their Dr. Kodesofdeath or did they send this guy out to be captured? What happened in the 2+ weeks we had him before acknowleding that we had him (gee, I sure hope nobody was putting panties on his head or making the doggies bark at him!).

I have these same sorts of questions about that woman that was captured down TX way or wherever. Was it a legitimate capture or did she conveniently stumble out from behind some tumbleweeds at an opportune moment?

What I look forward to reading about, should I live so long, is how cells respond to these sorts of events. When I stopped being a Septenthian (for me that was prior to 10AM EDT on 9/11) I developed a working assumption that whenever we rolled up some piece of the terror network it would sort of force smaller bits and pieces (the cells) to go operational. I expected more, but small attacks. It just seemed to me that if I were a part of a cell and I had some knowledge that something “larger” or higher up had been compromised, I’d probably react by canning whatever was planned and cooking up something else ad-hoc. Apparently that’s why nobody would want me in their cell. They seem to be more disciplined than I would have given them credit for a few short years ago.