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"I didn't come out here in the wet to discuss our political differences!" said A to control his wrath "Tell ed"

"Doesn't have a scratch And I ht add that your pilots are still fit to fly That make you happy?"

"You would be wise to surrender your weapons and Turn over ht crew"

Pitt shrugged "Screw you"

Ammar was shaken by his failure to intimidate Pitt His voice turned abrupt and cold "How ht to one"

Pitt nodded his head at the bodies scattered beside the crushing mill

"You're going to have to play catch-up ball The way I see it, you're about nine strikes down on the scoreboard" Then as an afterthought he said, "Before I forget-I give you e your chopper

It's yours in pristine shape providing you can take it But hares, and I blow it from here to the nearest junkyard That's the only deal I'll make"

"That is your final word?"

"for now, yes"

A thought crystallized in Ammar's mind, and he ept by a sudden revelation "It was you!" he rasped "You led the American special forces here"

"Luck gets most of the credit," Pitt said modestly "But after I found the wreck of the General Bravo and a splaced roll of plastic, it all fell into place"

Ammar stood there for a moment in profound astonishment, then recovered and said, "You do your powers of deduction an injustice, Mr Pitt I readily concede the coyote has run the fox to ground"

"Fox?" said Pitt "You flatter yourself Don't you ot?"

Aoing to kill you, Pitt, and I' your body shot to pieces What say you to that?"