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Authors: Ira Tabankin

 

“Your Holiness, it’s started! Just as you predicted. You are truly a holy soul sent to us directly from Allah. The messenger kneels, bowing over to kiss Ali Muhammad Tanvir’s feet. The senior staff watches the messenger wondering what event has started as foretold by their Prime Minister, who places his hands under the messenger’s chin,

 

“Rise, my son, tell us what wondrous event has you filled with Allah’s holy spirit.”

 

“Your Holiness, The Minor Satan has launched against the Great Satan, who has launched their weapons against the Minor Satan. Your plan to pit them against each other is working! Surely Allah has guided their fingers to press their launching buttons. The two Satans are killing each other. Their missiles are passing each other in space.”

 

Ali Muhammad Tanvir smiles standing, “My friends, I told you they would kill each other. When the dust settles, we will land on their beaches offering aid for those willing to convert to Islam. Soon, the flag of Allah will fly over the entire world. We are Allah’s witnesses to the beginning of the end of times. Soon, there won’t be any infidels left alive on Allah’s planet. Let us give praise to Allah for his holy guidance and plan. The Quran teaches us Allah is the master planner. LAA-ILLAHA ILLALLAH MOHAMMAD-UR-RASOOL ALLAH!”

 

Everyone in the room stands repeating his words, “LAA-ILLAHA ILLALLAH

MOHAMMAD-UR-RASOOL ALLAH”

 

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When the bomb explodes in Moscow, the only Russian leader to survive is President Putin. He orders the General of Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces to place all of Russia’s strategic weapons on war alert, hundreds of land based long range ballistic missiles are made ready for launch. Missile armed submarines are rushed to sea so they aren't lost in a follow-up attack. The Russian military high command assumes the crazy American President tried to decapitate the Russian leadership, they assume she thought starting a war with Russia would save her career by changing the news cycle and world’s focus.

 

Russian experts check the crater via satellite and drone, they’re able to confirm the yield is the same an American W-80-1 cruise missile nuclear warhead.

 

The Russian President looks at his staff with anger in his eyes,

 

“Do we have any tracking information for the attacking cruise missile?”

 

“No, sir. However, we know their Tomahawks can fly under our radar coverage. Their Tomahawks have the range to reach Moscow.”

 

“We have no proof the Americans fired it?”

 

“Mr. President, if they didn’t fire it, who did? Only the Chinese, the Americans, and we have weapons in this yield.”

 

“What about the Jews?”

 

“No one, except, maybe the Americans know what’s in their arsenal.”

 

“We’re going to learn that very soon.” Says a radar tech, “Israel just launched a massive attack against the Caliphate.”

 

Putin looks at the tech, “Could the Caliphate have attacked us?”

 

“Sir, if we assume the only weapons they have are the Pakistan inventory, none of their weapons are this large. They don’t have a delivery system to reach Moscow.”

 

President Putin tells the General of the Strategic Forces, “We’re going to show the stupid whore she can cut our head off and we’ll grow another, launch a counterforce attack. We’ll take down their ability to strike us again.”

 

“Sir, we’ll be ready in minutes.”

 

“Get on it. I want one missile targeted on the White House. That bitch tried to kill me, I want to return the favor and vaporize her.”

 

“Yes, sir. We have a missile boat off their coast, the flight time of her missile will be less than four minutes. They won’t be able to respond that quickly.”

 

“Order her to fire!”

 

“Yes, sir.”

 

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America’s NORAD sensors flash a NUDENT (nuclear detention) in Moscow. The Commanding General is surprised and worried. He asks,

 

“Who launched against the Russians? Send them a message we didn’t fire it! What’s the yield?”

 

“Sir, prelim says the yield is between 300-400kt.”

 

“Shit, they’re going to think it was one of ours. Who the hell nuked Moscow? Could the Caliphate have hit them?”

 

“Sir, the weapons they got from Pakistan are all in the 10-30kt range.”

 

“Then who’s it? Hurry, our lives depend on finding out where it came from.”

 

While the staff is back checking satellite images, an alarm screams in the Moutain, “MISSILE LAUNCH DETECTION. MISSILE LAUNCH DETECTION.”

 

Everyone in the command and control room holds their breath. The general yells,

 

“Where was it launched from, where’s it going?”

 

“Sir, launch location the Atlantic. Sir, the track of incoming missile shows it will land in New York City.”

 

The commanding general of NORAD picks up the red phone, calling the President to alert her to the incoming attack. The red phone in the White House goes unanswered. The General shakes his head, he doesn’t intend to allow his country to die because her President is locked in the bathroom.  He stares at the red handset shaking his head when the alarm screams,

 

“MISSILE LAUNCH DETECTION. MISSILE LAUNCH DETECTION. Central Russia.”

 

A tech yells over the alarm, “Russian ICBM launch!”

 

“Shit! We didn’t hit Moscow; I guess the Russians believe it was us.”

 

“Sir, the secret service rates the President as mentally unstable, the Vice President was in New York City for the holiday.”

 

”If the President won’t return fire, I will. I’m declaring DEFCON 1, we’ve suffered a decapitation, understanding orders, I am issuing orders for a counterstrike mission. I think the first missile we saw was a stupid captain who screwed up the launch order. I’m glad we’re going to fire, their missiles land on empty silos and bases. May God forgive us for our sins.”

 

His aide rushes the Vice Commander into the room,

 

“As Vice Commander, I confirm the General’s order. I’m entering my release code. We are at DEFCON 1; release of nuclear weapons has been authorized.”

 

An alarm sounds in the bunker. The 150-ton doors close, sealing the base from the outside. Air intakes are sealed so radioactive fallout doesn’t enter the facility.

 

A second alarm sounds in the bunker,

 

“Sir, launch confirmation, Minuteman missiles are launching.”

 

“Sir, launch confirmation, Navy, TRIDENT missiles are launching.”

 

“May God forgive us.”

 

The Vice Commander looks at his friend and commanding officer,

 

“Sir, should we sound a national air raid alert?”

 

“In the ten to thirty minutes they have, the panic will kill more than save. What’s the Russian targets?”

 

“Counter strike, our Minuteman silos, SSBN bases, Air Force Bomber bases.”

 

Shaking his head and smiling, “Their missiles are going to land on empty real estate, tell the base commanders they can release their people! We might be able to save some of them.”

 

“Yes, sir.”

 

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The Catholic Cardinals agree that the current crisis requires them to quickly elect a new Pope, they issue an urgent press release announcing their choice saying the world needs a man who speaks peace, a man who represents God. A man who can bring the current craziness to an end. The Cardinals select Cardinal Koch from Switzerland. Cardinal Koch takes the name of Pope Francis II, honoring his dead friend. Pope Francis II announces he will make the new Holy See in Switzerland, who quickly issues a press release saying they are honored to have the new Holy See located within their border, they agree to set aside land which the Pope will govern as the new Vatican.

 

Watching Pope Francis II’s press conference, the Caliphate swears vengeance against the new Pope and the new Vatican. They issue a press release saying if Switzerland hosts the new Vatican, the Caliphate promises to attack Switzerland with weapons of mass destruction.

 

Switzerland surprises the world by stating if attacked with weapons of mass destruction, they will respond with similar weapons which for the first time, they confirm they have. The world wonders who else has been hiding WMDs.

 

Switzerland’s announcement is lost in the nuclear exchanges between America, Russia and Israel’s attack on the Caliphate. Hundreds of millions die in the exchanges. America’s President is vaporized when two Russian submarine-launched warheads strike the White House. Washington D.C. and New York City are the only two American cities struck. Historians correctly assume the D.C. attack was an attempt to kill the American President. The nuclear explosion over the White House also took out most of America’s government. Targeting the White House was a personal order directly from President Putin. The Chairman of the Joint Service Chiefs takes temporary management of the country until a legal successor can be located. He orders the American military to aid the wounded and homeless Americans. He opens the remaining warehouses of food to feed the people. He orders mobile MASH centers to move outside of the locations of the nuclear explosions.

 

The President doesn’t like being in small spaces, she tries to get out of the small bunker, telling the secret service agents she can’t stay in the small room. She kicks one of the agents in his balls, when he bends over in pain, she pushes past him to shove the shelter’s door open. A moment later the two Russian warheads explode over the White House. Super-heated plasma turns the White House and President into atoms. She opens her mouth to say something, the word never finishes forming on her lips, one moment she is pushing open the door, the next she, her secret service agents and most of the American Federal Government leaders are dust in the wind.

 

A month after the short nuclear war, while the world continues to cry and try to piece together what happened and why it happened, Pope Frances II looks into twenty broadcast cameras,

 

“My fellow God loving people of the planet Earth, I stand in front of you today in an attempt to right a major injustice. For the previous two thousand years, the God-loving people of the planet have been attacked, tortured and killed by the believers of Allah. Look at the damage they’ve recently inflicted on mankind in the name of their false God. I stand here today saying, I believe they don’t worship God, they worship Satan. I believe that Satan, not God spoke to Mohammad. Muslim’s have been following and doing Satan’s work on Earth for two fifteen hundred years. God, no matter what name you call him is based on love and forgiveness. All of the world’s religions but one believes their God is a loving God. Only one group tortures men, women and children in the name of their God. Only one religion kills in the name of their God.

 

The Holy Church has long known of the connection between Allah and Satan. The name Allah is derived from the Hebrew Chaldea word Halal which is the NAME OF SATAN in the scriptures in Isaiah 14.12, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer (P), son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"

 

The Quran itself says, “Allah is th
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greatest of all deceivers” Surah 3:54 “Anyone, who’s read the Bible knows the greatest deceiver is Satan, not God. God never lies, he always speaks the truth. He speaks of love and forgiveness; he never speaks of hate.

 

Look at the recent destruction and the death of hundreds of millions the Caliphate has caused. They killed and arranged to kill hundreds of millions. Only the followers of Satan could be happy at what they wrought. I believe the time has come to end these devil worshipers. I believe the time has come for the armies of the world to come together and erase the curse of Satan worship. I call on the militaries and people of the world to form a new combined Army of the Lord our God to go forth as the Last Crusade to end the scourge of Islam forever. I call upon the world to put aside any political differences and fight the real source of the world’s suffering. Let us free the land from the evil doers who caused the short nuclear exchange which killed hundreds of millions. While people died horrible deaths, the Satan worshipers danced for joy in their streets. They cheered the death of the infidel, they cheered the death of the ‘Great, minor and little Satans. In reality, Satan was cheering the death of hundreds of millions of the faithful. I have shoulder patches for the new faithful to wear into battle against Satan, they will be the avenging sword of God!”

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