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CHPT 2; THE RUTHLESS DESPOTS

  Chapter Two "A single bracelet does not jingle’‘If you show off your strength, you will start a fight’ General Twine was now impatiently and angrily pacing to and fro the room.  He turned to Ahmed and gave a command passed with anger, "get out of my sight, and get the men ready." Ahmed replied, "But general, the UN…" "Damn them! Iran has bitten off more than they can chew, go and do what you are told immediately." General Twine said, without letting Ahmed finish. General Twine, a macho person, stern, well known, and respected among the Iraqi people happened to be the commander in chief of the Iraqi armed force, and would go to any length and breadth to make sure whatever he says goes unchallenged. He had been very angry since the information came to him that one of Iraq's oil rigs has been destroyed by a shell suspected to be fired from the Iranian military base. He looked with vehemence as Ahmed walked slowly away from his presence, "faste...