. fly well ahead but not so far that we cannot see them."The pilot looked ahead and picked a clearing, roughly a quarter mile ahead, swung the chopper...around to face the on-coming vehicle, and settled down into the two-track dirt road. As soon as it set down, Yavinsky and his two men jumped out and began running ahead and to the side. The two men uncased their weapons and took positions on each side of the road; Yavinsky pulled his handgun and waited on the road center."Awwww, shit!" the pilot. My guess is thatthere's a terrorist sleeper cell here preparing an attack involvingexplosives. They're pretty sophisticated, if my hunch is right. Thiswon't be any cheap and dirty thing like Timothy McVeigh's ammoniumnitrate and fuel oil." "The Denver area's a target-rich environment," Ed musedthoughtfully. "You're right again. The bottom line is that anyone could rent atruck, fill it full of high explosive, and drive it to any of a thousandbig buildings and really do a number on. The mine property covered six thousand acres, both mines, all mineral rights and what was left of the airport, the short runway close to the mine, and the town including the hotel where I killed the group of them.I wondered why they wanted to sell now. Then the thought hit me; the Saudi war in Yemen was not going good for them, much worse than the world knew. The factions they were supporting had stalled in their offense because their arch enemy Iran was aggressively supporting the other. For instance, have you ever noticed that there's always an Enemy? Somehow whenever one is defeated, another quickly pops up. Often it would appear that a pair of countries secretly agree to be each other's enemies because it benefits the leaders of both of them to have a safe Enemy. When this happens the voters must question why they elected such leaders in the first place, although historically they seldom have.And while it seems logical that among many forms of government that used to.