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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 147dead on the sidewalk. H<strong>of</strong>i was already on his way across thestreet to the van, which had started to move slowly forward, andthe man on the phone down the street said, "It's done," signalinghis party that the Said phase <strong>of</strong> the operation was now on.For his part, Drory simply turned and walked back into the sideparking lot where he got into his car and drove <strong>of</strong>f. The man whohad been stationed in the lobby went back in through therevolving doors, crossed the lobby, and left by the back door,where he, too, had a car waiting. The whole thing took only about10 seconds; if anyone had been watching from the lobby, it wouldsimply have looked as if the man had gone out the revolving door,forgotten something, and come back into the hotel. It was almost10 minutes before Abdul's body was found in the parking lot.When Said pulled up to his parking stall at his apartment,Amikan was waiting in the bushes between the two apartmenthouses. The lamp across from the stalls was burned out, butthrough the back window and against the lights on the wall <strong>of</strong> thestalls, Amikan could see that Said had picked someone up on theway home. His problem, <strong>of</strong> course, was that he couldn't tell fromthere which <strong>of</strong> the two was Said, so he took the view that hisenemy's friend must be his enemy, too. He walked up to the back<strong>of</strong> the car and, using an extended magazine on his 9 mm pistol,fired 11 rounds through their heads, pumping quickly back andforth from one man to the other.Then he stepped around the driver's side <strong>of</strong> the car to make sureboth were dead. Because he had fired from behind, neither manhad a front to his head anymore.The shooting was quick, but fairly noisy. Though Amikan hadused a silencer, the crash <strong>of</strong> glass and thud <strong>of</strong> bullets hitting thewall attracted Said's bodyguards. They came out on the secondfloorbalcony, the light from the apartment at their backs, peeringdown into the darkness and shouting Said's name. Anothermember <strong>of</strong> Amikan's team, who had been staked out in front <strong>of</strong>the apartment building as a backup if needed, shouted to them inArabic, "Get down! Get down!" and they did. In the meantime,both he and Amikan

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