Chapter Thirty Two: Reporting back. Back in his hotel room Sol ordered some food and pulled out his laptop, logged on to the hotel WIFI and fired up the encrypted messenger software that would enable a safe conference call with his brothers. It was about 3.30pm and the meeting was not for another thirty minutes, so he finished eating. At one minute to the hour he entered his password and watched as the software recognised, and listed attendees on the conference call. They logged in one by one: firstly Brother David in Beirut, then Kish in the Gaza Strip and Saul in the West Bank. Master Mason David Gregg logged in and confirmed his ID; he was in London and calling from within a business unit of the United Grand Lodge of England. Each of us confirmed our codename and location. There was no mismanagement of the call, all attendees had a priority of communication and would wait their turn; they knew when to speak or when to wait until spoken too. Upon request Brother David of Beirut informed Grand Master David Gregg that he is established at the safe house of Mahmood; but is yet to meet with the leaders of the Hezbollah. He is ready to move and expects contact with their representative any time in the next twenty four hours. Grand Master David Gregg cuts in at this point and reminded them that all their contacts are established sleepers and have had extensive communication with the UK and US foreign affairs department for at least two years. The sleepers, all people of political or religious influence have spent many months planning the initial meetings with security commanders or government leaders that were sympathisers of the cause; whether it be an elected official, or more likely a senior military commander, governor or terrorist group leader. Once the meeting was initiated, the plan was to obtain their interest by method of an induction process; which will firstly inform them of the overall plan to select important members of state and tribal leaders to create a Government of Unity, but only upon the imminent assassination of Bashar Al-Assad; the idea of this being to gain their confidence that change was actually possible and at the same time apply immense pressure, that they had no choice but to comply. And once they realised their support structure had been removed; secondly: to offer them an agreed sum of five million euro’s upon their confirmed attendance at the Jerusalem conference to discuss the allocated seats that will be available within the new Government of Unity.
Solomon is desperate to discuss his problems in Damascus, but waits his turn to speak and when it’s his turn, he informs Master Mason David Gregg of the twenty four hour delay he has experienced in his attempts to contact the Rabbi, and of his frustration as to why no one knew the Rabbi was not in the country, and why an imposter attempted to deceive Solomon. Why would he disguise himself as the Rabbi, unless it was to find out what was going on or he knew of their plans to assassinate Bashar Al-Assad? The answer to this was not easy to resolve and the Master Mason could not see why their information would be incorrect. ‘Solomon’ ‘Yes Master’ ‘I believe this young man; his name we do not know. Must be loyal to the security forces of Al-assad, there can be no other reason why this problem has arisen. The Rabbi was the contact, not this imposter. He knew of the architect also; he asked me if I was a follower and I concurred. Solomon.’ ’Yes Master’ Rabbi Shraga Simmons must have leaked this information; maybe in an attempt to save his life, he gave away a little to save the greater cause. Be prepared for the kill, the young man must be silenced. You must ensure the success of our mission; you must do what is necessary. It is possible that the Rabbi has been incarcerated, which is a very big problem indeed. Let us hope he is not dead. You must find out quickly’. ‘Yes Master David’.
‘Solomon. You are the key to this mission; you must succeed, our brothers in arms cannot proceed unless you communicate the success of your mission. We must have Rabbi Shraga Simmons on our team, if you can find him, and the sympathetic Ayatollah. The Sunni Muslim’s and Shia’s will follow the Ayatollah to the ends of the earth and the Christians and Druze will cheer us onward; we just need to release them from the bonds of government control. Find the Rabbi, talk to the Ayatollah and setup the meeting with Governor Makhluf and the Minister of Defence: Lieutenant General Dawoud. They have been approached and are willing to talk; but our time is extremely short. Bashar Al-Assad has sacked several governors since the protests erupted in July 2011 and the replacement governors have killed 3000 civilians across the 14 districts during the crackdown that followed. The protests are well under way and gathering momentum, if Governor Makhluf doesn’t crack down on the protestors, he will be replaced. Saul cut in at this point and informed his brothers of his problems in the West Bank. You have only twelve hours to find the Rabbi, before angry activists begin the ‘day of change’; 500,000 protesters are set to rally the Qalandiya check point here in the west Bank. It will be a blood bath; Herek of the youth movement here in Qalandiya, will only give us twelve hours or the march from Syria will commence. In Damascus we want the protests to continue to fuel change, but here we must stop them. It is imperative our plans succeed, it must happen, Solomon must find the Rabbi and silence the imposter. But be careful, the young imposter will be one of, or supported by Bashar Al-Assad’s security forces; they must have the Rabbi; the most likely place of incarceration would be the synagogue.