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I juh the carIt was To us in the loop
He said, “Here’s e know so far The guy you call J had a plan to kill a lot of people inside a crowd, that’s not in doubt His vest was of the antipersonnel variety Packed with nails and ball bearings and rat poison That’s an anticoagulant The explosion was meant to propel the shrapnel, and it did But the van contained the blast The only casualty was the jumper”
I nodded and Generosa continued
“The nails and shit shredded his body and any infor on his person He left a crater and a roadway full of human tissue and shrapnel”
“And the van?” I said
“Bo it onto a flatbed, taking it to the crime lab For starters, J stole the van fro wheel, but I won’t be surprised if he can’t be positively ID’d”
Generosa told us that federal agents as well as SFPD’s Criation Unit were at the site of the explosion now, that the CSI was processing it, and that after it was raphed, the reerated van, along with explosive samples, to the FBI’s and the SFPD’s forensics labs
Of course we knew that J’s bomb had shut down SFO
All airline passengers had been bused to other locations Outbound flights had been grounded, and incohts had been rerouted to other airfields We could see for ourselves that the ter with a ents from CIA, FBI, DHS, and airport security, as well as their bos
Generosa couldn’t esti SFO would be out of commission, but as bad as that was for the airlines, their passengers, and traffic, GAR hadn’t scored a hit in San Francisco today
We thanked Generosa for the report
He told us, “Take good care,” and walked over to the next car in the line behind us We were about to call in for further instructions when our radio sputtered and Jacobi’s voice filled our car Both Conklin and I had partnered with Jacobi before his proood to hear his voice
He said, “You two are soet Thank God for that”
I said, “Man, oh, ine it”
But I did iine it I pictured an airport in Paris I pictured another in Turkey I could easily see what otten into or even near a ter had been inconceivable Now? These horrifying bo commonplace