Decisions: Spy to Surgeon General to a Threat of Impeachment

By Carl Douglass

Sybil Norcroft, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. has been nominated and confirmed to be the Surgeon General of the United States after a stellar career as a practicing and academic neurosurgeon and as a media darling for Wolf News. But...all is not what it seems to be. Dr. Norcroft is also a consummate spy whose secret life threatens her family and her very existence. The latest threat is to the world, and Sybil must use her role as the Surgeon General to gain access to the secret world of those who plan mass destruction. This turns out not to be an arms-length involvement. No, Sybil must fight.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publication Consultants
• Release date: Nov 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781594335280

Carl Douglass

Author Carl Douglass desires to live to the century mark and to be still writing; his wife not so much. No matter whose desire wins out, they plan an entire life together and not go quietly into the night. Other than writing, their careers are in the past. Their lives focus on their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

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Chapter One

Room 5926, Royal Clock Tower Hotel, Mecca, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, December 18, 2015, 1000 hrs.

It was fitting that the meeting was being held in the world’s third tallest building which stretches skyward above the Grand Mosque and the Ka’aba. That fit the soaring ambitions and prejudices of the men in the elaborately decorated room. The room fell silent as the old man entered—a gesture beyond respect and into reverence. Muhammad al Saud ibn Wahhab was generally regarded as the grandest of the grand old men of Islam; and whenever he spoke, it was as if the Prophet, himself—may his name be revered forever—was speaking. Throughout the Kingdom, ibn Wahhab was also a lightning rod of controversy. As a patriarch of the Wahhab family and an intimate of the ruling Saud family, he was considered by many of his countrymen—and more than a few in the government—to have undue influence and power for a man with no official government position. He was widely—but quietly—held to be overly stringent and severe I in his views on the practice of Islam in the Kingdom and throughout the world.

His most contentious view was that he was one of the architects of the new Mecca. His Mecca was no longer the humble and strict preserver of Islam’s most holy sites in Mecca, Medina, and Mina; he was the leader of a faction within the Wahhab family dedicated to the destruction and removal of such revered sites as Al Hajar Al Aswad [the Black Stone] in the Ka’aba which millions of Muslims have kissed for over a thousand years, the Muqaam Ibrahim [Place of Abraham] a site inside Al-Masjid Al-Haram [the Great Mosque of Mecca built around the Ka’aba], the Zamzam Well, Jabal Al Rahmah [The Hill of Forgiveness, Mount Arafat], Al-Masjid al-Nabawi [Mosque of the Prophet] in Medina, and of dozens of places of Saudi Arabia’s archeological heritage—even cemeteries—where many of the greatest-of-the-great Islamic heroes were laid to rest. He preached against the preservation of Islam’s heritage—of Saudi Arabia’s heritage—as being unIslamic.

Muhammad al Saud ibn Wahhab and his followers had what was, for them, a valid reason for their objection to all such traditions: in the minds of the Wahhabis, historical sites, and shrines encourage "shirq" the unforgivable sin and even capital crimes of idolatry or polytheism. Ibn Wahhab counted among his greatest achievements the construction of the building in which he was standing—the nearly 2,000 foot tall Royal Mecca Clock Tower which soared emblematically over the Grand Mosque and the holy shrine, reducing its historical significance. Over the past decade and a half, ibn Wahhab and the hard-line clerics of his family had worked systematically with the Saudi royal family to transform Mecca and Medina—the two holiest cities in the Islamic world—into a playground, business center for the rich, and the showcase of Saudi Arabian national pride.

The city had become a steel, concrete, and glass megalopolis of high rises, innovative and artistic architectural masterpieces where naked capitalism had trumped the humble dusty destination of the hajj [Sacred Pilgrimage]. There are only three sites the Saudis and the Wahhabis have allowed the U.N. to designate World Heritage Sites—and thereby preserve them—none are related to Islam.

The Saudi ruling family agreed with the Wahhabi vision of the Kingdom’s and the city’s future built from the enormous profits gushing from the seemingly inexhaustible treasure of oil reposing beneath the country’s desert sands. Instead of recoiling at the desecration of the places beloved by the humble believers since the advent of Islam, the royal family and their ultra-religious partners—the Wahhab family—reveled in their ability to upstage the decadent West in their own love of capitalism and grandeur. Five-star hotels had long since appeared where affordable rental rooms had served the humble pilgrims coming to the holy cities to celebrate their compliance with the once in a lifetime requirement to participate in the holy pilgrimage—to become a hajji. More moderate Muslims in places like Indonesia, Morocco, the UAE [United Arab Emirates], and even in inordinately strict Shi’ite Iran, were aghast at the audacity of the Wahhabs to trade the sacred for bling.

Muhammad al Saud ibn Wahhab took his place at the dais and began to speak. The quiet murmurs of respectful whispering became reverential silence when he began to talk in his quiet, masterly way.

"Brothers, thank you for your presence here. Many of you have come a long distance to the Holy City. I will be brief. When I am finished, you will separate into groups as indicated by the numbered cards you all received when you first entered the room. The numbered groups correspond to one or another aspect of the project as I describe it to you. Most of you are already familiar with the overall plan. Today you will begin to learn specifics. Let me once again exhort you to secrecy. It is a dangerous world what with the Great Satan—those jinns who serve Shaytan—Little Satan—the sons of Zion, whom our Allah described as the sons of apes and pigs—and those rafida among the Tawhid, those kaffirs and Hazaras, who have rejected the true way and seek to undermine Allah’s one way and the Sunnah. Be ever on your guard.

The Kingdom has nuclear armaments, a fact that appears to be unknown to the decadent West and puts them at peril. Allah has provided us with the means to deliver those weapons. Our purpose today is to devise a detailed set of logistics to deliver the Wrath of God", as our weapons are known, and to usher in Yawm al-Qiyamah, Yawm al-Din [The Day of Judgment]. Be mindful that our mission is sanctioned by our God, and He is with us. He is a just God, and will wreak awful justice out on the Zionist Entity and the land of the heretics. Eventually—with victories there—the rest of the Islamic world will unite to annihilate the Great Satan. Let’s get to work, my brothers."

Chapter Two

President’s Daily Briefing, Oval Office, The White House,

Washington D.C., December 18, 2015, 0800 hrs.

Present: POTUS (NI One), DCIA, DNI, DNSA

Re: Renewed unrest in the Middle-East

Mr. President, DCIA Martin Edelweiss began his presidential daily briefing, "we have worked for several days on the growing disturbances in a variety of places throughout the Muslim Middle-East. Some patterns are emerging, and our concerns are escalating accordingly. First: Tehran sent a shipload of high explosives to Jizan, a Saudi port town on the Red Sea. An Israeli Naval Intelligence Division Sa’ar 5-class corvette stopped the ship and boarded her in the Arabian Sea just off the coast near the Yemen and Oman border. They found several tons of Russian PVV-5A plastic explosive, Slovakian CHEMEX (C4), TVAREX 4A, manportable recoilless antitank rocket launcher weapons, rocket propelled grenade launchers, Spanish army M-65s, det-cord, and instantaneous impact fuses for high-explosive shells. The crew obligingly told the Israelis—in return for being able to be put off on Yemeni soil—that their cargo was bound for Jizan and was to be received by al Qaeda operatives. The IDF naval personnel took the Hezbollah militants back to Tel Aviv with them. With a bit of enhanced persuasion, the Hezbollah combatants revealed that al Qaeda intended to attack Saudi government institutions that supported attacks in Iran.

"Second: Iranian defense forces captured what they described as a squad of Saudi Arabian Naval special services NSSU commandos in the coastal city of Bushehr armed with—among other things—German surplus Mk-54 shoulder fired weapons and a truckload of M-388 rounds using an outmoded version of the American Davy Crocket W54 warhead. These weapons are very small and man portable sub-kiloton fission devices; they weigh about 50 pounds and have a yield equivalent to somewhere between 10 or 20 tons of TNT—very close to the minimum practical size and yield for a fission warhead. The Iran newspapers and TV have been full of pictures of the Saudi commandos and their weapons.

"Third: IDF personnel captured a squad of suicide bombers as they were putting on their vests in a seedy Tel Aviv hotel. Mossad told us that there was enough blast power in those suicide vests to level ten square blocks of the capital city. As near as they could determine, the source was Riyadh, not Tehran.

"Fourth: a team of Mossad agents was interdicted in the outskirts of Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province. That is Iran’s second largest city. The Israeli agents were found when a young shepherd boy saw them hiding in a canal near the city’s main electrical power plant. Six of the seven Israelis were killed by IRDF [Iran Refuse Derived Fuels] security forces, and the seventh held out for a week before revealing that he and his mates were from the Mossad. They had enough high explosives and equipment to flatten the power plant.

This has been the busiest couple of weeks in the area during the last two years. Something’s going on over there, Mr. President.

Yesterday, you gave me some preliminary data on the Saudis getting atomic collaboration from the Pakistanis and the Chinese. Anything new there? President Willets asked.

"We have