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the assassination

Seven Mossad Agents came to Norway a winter day when a snow drowns the needs of the homeless asleep in a shop's doorway absorbing the sarcastic smell of coffee and the aroma of a Napoleon cream cake. Their mission was to assassinate a man called a terrorist by them, but freedom fighters by others. The target had been located, a man of 47 bearded, with prematurely gray hair, Semitic features, and a nose somewhat bigger than what is the norm in a Nordic land He works as a waiter at a cafe, and take the bus home a quarter past ten in the evening, to his bed-sit, about ten minutes ride from the town. The group needed two taxis to take them to a hotel called, “Larsen's ski lodge” a pleasant little place with modern IKEA furniture, giving rooms an airy ambiance the group went to work at once, the leader carrying a heavy mobile phone, trying to make contact to base, one presumes an embassy, but failed. One of the women donned a blond wig, walked to the cafe to be sure their target was there a quarter past ten two men entered the bus, one of them who spoke a few word in Swedish, asked for two ticket to Husly which was the lat stop before the bur turned around and back to town when the “terrorist” alighted the bus the two assassins followed. No point going into details here, but they got their man and hid his body in a snow drift. Cooley, they stood by the stop to catch the bus on its return trip, smoking cigarettes of a foreign brand oblivious eyes saw them at the bus stop The assassins had overlooked one thing, the man had a girlfriend and when he didn't appeared as usual she went out looking for him with the help of neighbors Her boyfriend was found in the snowdrift the police quickly knew what they were dealing with but since they, the local police were not armed, they waited for reinforcement, when in the morning the assassin group came out to go to the railways station the group were arrested. Then the bomb dropped, they had murdered the wrong man, another Arab, they quickly insinuated was a terrorist too, what else was he doing in Norway The court case took a long time, one of the prosecutors fell in love with the woman with a fake wig, tried to say she was an innocent bystander, it didn't wash the case dragged on, in the end, and since the holocaust was invoked, the guilty only got a few years.

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