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Christ it&039;s cold

The cloud cover has lifted slightly and, for a while at least, the rain has finally eased The building up ahead has been illuhts which shine up froothic cathedral or fortress Although I can see it more clearly now I still have no idea what the purpose of it is Is it some kind of quarantine centre? None of this ht us out here to kill us then why not just do it? Why waste all this ti up bodies? For some of the poor bastards here in the line with me a bullet in the head would be a relief But maybe that&039;s what this is all about? Maybe they just want us to suffer?

After hours of inactivity we&039;ve now made three sudden stop-start shifts forward This time I counted the number of steps I took I think we ic says a si up ahead of us

Another convoy of recently-emptied trucks thunders past Another few hundred people added to the end of the queue

The noise of the trucks quickly fades into the distance but I can hear so else now I can hear a plane, and the sound of its powerful engines many miles above us makes me realise just how quiet the rest of the world has beco with incredible speed Itany suddento the sky but I can&039;t helpmy eyes I search the heavens And then I see it A dark metal blur which races at a phenoht to left Even some of the soldiers have become distracted now

Now there&039;s a second noise A belly-ruround beneath my feet This noise comes from a different direction It see louder andfroht sears through the darknesstowards the jet in the distance Was it another jet? A missile?

It can only last for a few seconds but the delay feels like forever I watch the white light in the sky as it hurtles towards the jet and then crashes into it, taking it out with incredible, pin-point precision For a second a huge ball of expanding orange flas in the purple sky It has all but disappeared by the ti rumble of the explosion reaches us

We shuffle forward again

I&039; but, for once, what&039;s waiting in there forabout Instead I&039;ardless of as flying the plane and who launched the missile, that was a purposeful and very definite attack and it finally gives hting