CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
7:55 p.m. West Africa Time (1:55 p.m. Eastern Standard Time)
Sambisa Forest
Borno State, Nigeria
Border with Chad
Red sparks flew in the night.
The great steel box sat in the middle of the field. Fifty yards to its west, the squad of Boko Haram lounged, waiting. Some squatted on the ground, smoking cigarettes and talking quietly. Some leaned against the old military truck.
Fifty yards to the east of the box, on the Chad side of the border, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb waited. As Yisrael looked at them, he felt maybe there were closer to two hundred. They had machine-gun-mounted trucks, troop transports, and helicopters. They made a convincing army. If Yisrael didn’t know better, he would almost think he was dealing with the Chadian military. Perhaps he was. P
