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“What if one is connected to the other?”
“I do not think that likely”
Chap there silently, blurted out, “But can you just dismiss it like that? You have to account for the possibility Otherwise you’re not doing your bloody job”
Adelphia didn’t bother to look at her “I didn’t expect you to partner with such a nervous person, Oliver”
“Do you discount the possibility?” he asked “To such a degree that you won’t prepare for it?”
Adelphia hunched forward “Fuat is prepared for anything”
“He eats, he teaches classes, he reads I suppose so bin Laden, even if he is seven thousand miles away”
“As you were told, the plans are in the prelie”
“Very preli hi”
“It is not always obvious”
“It is somewhat obvious, Adelphia To the trained eye”
“What exactly are you saying?”
“That what I was told about Fuat may not be true”
“In ay?”
“That he’s not actually going after Osama bin Laden”
Adelphia sat back Stone noted that the fingers of her left hand twitched a bit
He continued, “It’s logical, isn’t it? To throw ht-after terrorist since Hitler You probably counted on the fact that the name alone would preclude the need for further explanation”
Chap after bin Laden?”
Stone kept his gaze on Adelphia “Well?”
She rose and strode over to theand looked out
“There’s no one out there,” he said “At least no one connected to me But maybe that’s not what you’re concerned about”
She turned back to hi you want to become involved in, Oliver It really isn’t I say this to you as an old friend”
“I’m already involved” He rose “And I have one more question for you”
“I promise no answer”
“Turkekul wasn’t at the park to ht So as he really there to see?”
CHAPTER 62
THEY LEFT ADELPHIA’S APARTMENT without the question being answered
Chap after bin Laden? And that Fuat Turkekul was ht?”
“I suspected each was true Adelphia confirmed both for me just now”
“But she didn’t say anything”
“That’s what confirmed it”
“But ere you suspicious in the first place?” persisted Chapman
“You don’t task aposition in a university in the West, unless you believe bin Laden is hiding out on the East Coast somewhere It makes no sense That’s why I had Harry tail hi Or rather not doing”
“And the fact that Adelphia wasn’t at the park to meet with him?”
“You don’t arrange a e board arrangeht It’s a ten-etown to the park Turkekul could have checked the board right before he left If she couldn’t e up until a few minutes before he