Flight of the White Ghosts
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The Flight of the White Ghosts is the story of a second al-Qaeda attack on the United States on September 11, 2006, five years after the original, successful attack on 9/11. Four, white Gulfstream G150 private jets take off from Cuba, Canada, California and the Azores carrying aboard lethal weapons of mass destruction in a coordinated terrorist attack on the White House, the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol Building and the CIA. The White Ghost mastermind is a young devout Muslim, Difid bin Muhamad, whose entire family was accidentally killed by an American air attack on the City of Tikrit in 2003 and Difid, along with the leadership of al-Qaeda, seeks bloody revenge.
David F Eastman
I am an avid reader and passionate writer. I have written eight eBooks and thirteen short stories and my genres include science fiction, horror, murder, political intrigue, conspiracy theories, fables and parables of life and love. I am currently working on two new eBooks, one about World War 2 and a second about a terrorist attack on the U.S.I am a retired life science and high technology marketing executive and currently mentor and guide scientists, physicians, medical students and engineers in managing their start-ups, developing their inventions, commercializing their products and building their businesses into viable, successful and profitable ventures.I have a Jewish heritage from both German and Polish grandparents, on my mother's side and an English, Native-American heritage on my father's side.I have one wife, one son, and four cats.I love to travel and learn about new cultures and people and just returned from a month long pleasure trip to Venice, Italy, New York City, Athens, Greece, Split, Croatia, Montenegro and Zurich, Switzerland. Next year I plan to spend three weeks n Italy drinking good wine.I
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Flight of the White Ghosts - David F Eastman
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رحلة الأشباح البيضاء (Rihlat al'Ashbah Albayda') Flight of the White Ghosts
By David F Eastman
Chapter 1: Almawt min Alsama' (Death from the Sky)
It was early evening in the Zahor neighborhood on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Tikrit. The sky was clear with the sun setting to the West leaving a golden glow over the desert. Most of the residents were in their homes with their families, and after prayers, they began preparation of their evening meals. Difid bin Muhamad’s mother, Naila, was cooking a light dinner for her family including rosemary and garlic infused lamb kebabs, stewed vegetables, tomato stuffed eggplant and yellow Jasmine rice. Her father, Dr. Ibn Hamid Masih, the curator of the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage, was joining them for dinner. Her two daughters, Khadija and Aisha, sat close together on a blue Kashan-designed carpet in the living room playing with square-colored blocks emblazoned with Arabic numbers and symbols. Difid’s father, Samar, sat in an easy chair alongside grandfather Hamid and they discussed the previous weeks attack on Baghdad by American forces. They were both concerned about a pending invasion and what Saddam Hussein brazenly called the mother of all battles
to defend the homeland. Naila’s newly borne son, Qasim, dozed in his crib still sleepy from his dinner of honey and warm milk. Difid, the eldest son, was not at home this evening and instead was attending a rally at the University of Baghdad sponsored by Saddam’s Socialist Ba'ath Party to discuss the invasion and possible revolutionary resistance. The Ba’ath Party members made up most of the residents of the city of Tikrit and so it was a target of opportunity for American midnight raids on the hidden Iraqi Army Command and Control Centers and suspected Ba’ath leaders hiding out in the city.
At home in Zahor, Naila cleared the dishes from the evening meal, then tucked Khadija, Aisha and Qasim into their beds. In the living room, Naila joined her husband Samar and Hamid for an after dinner Arabian coffee while they sat and listened to the gentle sitar music played by the popular Arab musician, Hassan Erraji. Around 11:00 PM, they all retired to bed, with Difid’s grandfather, Hamid, too tired to travel home, taking Difid’s room. Hamid was quite proud of Difid because the fine young man, the first-born son of his beloved daughter, Naila, planned to follow in his footsteps and build a career as an archeologist and paleontologist. Thinking about Difid, Hamid fell off to sleep, as did Naila and Samar. It was now midnight and the whole house was quiet and peaceful.
There was no moon out this evening and so the dark sky over Tikrit was lit up by street lamps and patio cooking fires. There was a distant roar, like thunder, yet there were no rain clouds or thunder claps; it merely was the sound of approaching jet fighter bombers. A U.S. Air Force F-16, carrying several smart bombs intended to target Ba-ath Party leaders in their homes and offices in Tikrit, unleashed its bombs and one of the bombs, its guidance fin cracked when loaded aboard the plane, spun off target and crashed into the home of Difid bin Muhamad, killing his entire family in a fiery explosion.
The next day, fighting hordes of fearful people on the highways fleeing the Tikrit bombing, Difid found only a hollowed-out bomb crater where his home once stood. His home and entire family had been vaporized by the 500 lb. bomb. In tears and inconsolable, Difid dropped to his knees, raised his arms to Allah, and with clenched fists vowed bloody revenge on the infidels. Three years later he would have his revenge.
Chapter 2: Al'ashbah Albayda' (The White Ghosts)
In 1999, defense giant General Dynamics, makers of the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighter plane and, wanting to expand into the private business jet market, purchased Gulfstream Aerospace. Soon after acquiring Gulfstream, it purchased Galaxy Aerospace and renamed the mid-size Astra SPX, the Gulfstream G100 and the super mid-size Galaxy, the Gulfstream G200.
In 2003, beyond its four Gulfstream service and maintenance centers in the United States, including its largest complex in Savannah, Georgia, Gulfstream acquired a service center at the London-Luton Airport, the first Gulfstream-owned service center to be operated outside the United States. Gulfstream jets were now being purchased globally by wealthy private individuals and corporations and Gulfstream wanted customer support centers in close proximity to the various nations their customers lived in including the wealthy oil nations of the Middle East.
In 2004, Gulfstream was awarded the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Collier Trophy for the invention of the Enhanced Vision System© (EVS), the first civil aircraft to receive the coveted award. In addition, the Gulfstream was the first private jet to incorporate, into its cockpit, PlaneView®, an integrated avionics suite featuring four 14-inch (36 cm) liquid crystal displays in landscape format.
In 2005, Gulfstream designed and developed a means of reducing the sonic boom caused by an aircraft breaking
the sound barrier, which they dubbed, the Quiet Spike™. Quiet Spike was a telescopic nose device that softened the effect of the sonic boom by smoothing the pressure wave created by flying at the speed of sound.
Also, in 2005, the Gulfstream G100 was at the end of its operational life and the G150 was under development for launch in 2006. The Gulfstream G150 had two Honeywell TFE731-40AR engines each offering 4,420 pounds of thrust. The flight range was 2,988 nautical miles and its maximum cruising speed was 475 knots (547 MPH). The cabin volume was 521 cubic feet allowing the G150 to carry seven passengers and two crew members besides the two pilots. The seats were easily removed for cargo, and once removed it could carry up to 10,000 pounds of cargo.
On September 11, 2006, a bright, sunny Fall day on the East Coast of the United States, four stark white Gulfstream G150’s took off from four private airports at the four points of the compass; North in Mirabel, Canada, West in Modesto, California, South in Havana, Cuba and East in Portugal’s Azore Islands, and headed for Washington, DC at supersonic speed hugging the nap-of-the-earth
to avoid radar. Their targets dotted the Washington, DC metropolitan city area and the Virginia countryside, including the White House, the Capitol Building, the Pentagon and CIA headquarters at Langley.
Together, these four stark white Gulfstream aircraft were collectively known by the al-Qaeda terrorists flying them as, Al'ashbah Albayda', the White Ghosts.
Aboard Shbh Abyad Wahid (White Ghost One) flying North from Havana, Cuba were two al-Qaeda pilots and 30 sealed glass tubes containing deadly Guanarito (Ebola) Virus from Venezuela. White Ghost One’s target: The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia.
Aboard Shbh 'Abyad Athnyn (White Ghost Two) flying West from Terceira Island in the Azores were two al-Qaeda pilots and six stainless steel pressurized cylinders containing aerosolized anthrax botulinum spores with an automated, custom designed field dusting dispersal system from South Africa. White Ghost Two’s target: The White House, in Washington, DC.
Aboard Shbh 'Abyad Thlath (White Ghost