![]() ![]() ![]() Several surviving leaders had swept up young dissidents around the globe, including significant numbers of zealots from Western populations who'd come of age after the digital revolution. They were equal-ethnicity bombers, hitting three holy places-a mosque, a cathedral, and a synagogue-as well as two universities and an airport, killing over nine hundred people of all ages and nationalities in six countries.Īs we understood it, GAR (Great Antiestablishment Reset) had sprung from the rubble of Middle Eastern terror groups. This task force had been formed to address a local threat by a global terrorist group known as GAR, which had claimed credit for six sequential acts of mass terrorism in the last five days. We had just been assigned to a counterterrorism task force reporting back to Warren Jacobi, chief of police, and also Dean Reardon, deputy director of Homeland Security, based in DC. It's been said that watching paint dry is high entertainment compared with being on stakeout, but this was the exception to the rule. We had parked our 1998 gray Chevy sedan where we had a good view of the six-story apartment building on the corner of Leavenworth and Turk. ![]() That muggy morning in July my partner, Rich Conklin, and I were on stakeout in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco's sketchiest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods. ![]()
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