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“What’s happening?” he asked, swinging his legs out of bed and running a hand across his crew cut

“There was a burst of chatter out of Bandar Abbas about five ”

Juan had expected this It would take soure out what had happened and finally have the courage to report the theft to his superiors in Tehran They in turn would have i radios and nonsecure telephones and to switch to dedicated landlines

During the first Gulf War, A her eavesdropping abilities Using its satellites and ground listening stations, the NSA could listen in on or read virtually every telephone call, radio broadcast, fax transmittal, and any other form of communication with iet Saddam Hussein’s co technological advantage, nations who saw the United States as a threat—namely, Iran, Syria, Libya, and North Korea—spent hundreds ofa network of landlines that couldn’t be hacked or listened in on without a direct tap

After those first frantic calls that the Oregon intercepted, the Iranians had switched to this systeence

“What did you get?” Juan asked

“They reported a break-in at the dry dock, a sed the control room, and the theft of thales”

“That’s their code name for the rocket torpedoes,” Juan said “I think the Farsi word is hoot”

“That’s what the computer said After that, there was an order out of the defensethey call ‘the voice of the Prophet’”

“That’ll be their military communications lines” Juan clamped the cordless phone between his head and shoulder to free up his hands so he could dress “Anything else?”

“Sorry, Chairman That was it”

Cabrillo put hih ould co to close Bandar Abbas and reinspect every ship in the harbor The Navy’s going to be put on high alert, and they may try to stop vessels within fifty or sothe Gulf of Oman”

“We’re still within that radius,” Hali told him

“Tell the helet us the hell out I’ll be in the Op Center in two h Juan’s top people had been on duty until just a couple of hours ago, he wanted the the ship until they ell beyond Iran’s ability to strike

When Juan had designed the Oregon, a tremendous amount of effort went into the ship’s Operations Center It was the brain of the vessel, the nerve center froines and weapons systems to the fire-suppression sprinklers and coh-tech as the exterior of the Oregon was decayed Do the front as a es at a time, from the battery of ship’s cameras as well as feeds from her submersibles, the unmanned aerial ROV, and from cameras es could also be flashed onto the screen