David told the peevish, but repentant, Kobi to meet him immediately at the offices of the Israeli delegation that were practically empty at this time in the evening, and bring his agent Michelle who seemed to be the most acquainted with Brussels. Within half an hour the three of them were closely studying a map of Brussels using Google Earth and Street View options. They were surprised to see that the embassies of Pakistan, North Korea and Iran were located along the same thoroughfare, Chaussee de Hulpe that merges into Franklin Rooseveltlaan, and that the former two were quite close to each other. Michelle commented that it looked as if these three members of the New Evil Empire, evil at least from Israel's viewpoint, stuck close together. Anyway, they started a survey of the area close to the Pakistani embassy and saw that off the thoroughfare there were a few apartment buildings. Considering that it was quite late they expected that there would be very little regular traffic in the area and David decided that it would be a waste of time to post an agent near the Pakistani embassy at night, but told Kobi to have two of his agents in position to follow whichever employees that left the embassy in the morning.
Herb Harden assembled his agents at the American embassy where the CIA had half of the basement and a small conference room that was built like a Faraday cage preventing the transmission and reception of electronic signals other than those that were not fed into the room through optical fibers. Harden asked one of the technicians on his team to present the latest photos from the ground based cameras and satellite images of the Pakistani embassy in Brussels. He was disappointed that there was not full around-the-clock video coverage but only snapshots taken at different intervals. The CIA had a list of the Pakistani staff members and knew which diplomats were actually agents of Pakistani intelligence, and had photographs of the "scientific attaché" Rahman Chenna and his assistant Junaid. Face matching software was applied to the snapshots but the two "diplomats" were not identified in any of them. As an afterthought Harden called for the photos of Nagib and Alia and the software program came up with a hit. The two of them were seen exiting the embassy just before 4 pm on the 25th of June. Although they could not tell from the photos what the couple was doing in the embassy it confirmed their suspicion that they had contacted the Pakistanis. Harden asked the technician to enlarge and process the part of the photo in which the face of Nagib could be clearly seen although Alia's features were partly obscured by her scarf. A close look at Nagib's expression showed that he was concerned about something and deep in thought. The excited CIA station chief called Eugene on a secure line and told him that one of their biggest fears was substantiated.
Eugene asked for a copy of the snapshot that was sent to him immediately. Eugene studied Nagib's worried facial expression and said that his impression was that no deal had been finalized or else Nagib would look more relieved and less concerned. Harden agreed with the interpretation and asked Eugene for further instructions. Eugene said that he would make arrangements to fly to Brussels as soon as possible and suggested that Harden should call the Israeli team and update David about the identification of Nagib and Alia at the Pakistani embassy. Harden said that he would need a direct order from his CIA boss in Langley and Eugene said that he would arrange for the necessary confirmation and asked Harden to call his boss after 30 minutes.
Harden called his boss in Langley and then called David in Brussels. Although this call was made on an open line he conveyed the information. David told him that his team had arrived at the same conclusion, even without photographic evidence, and had already surveyed the vicinity of the Pakistani embassy and searched for possible safe houses in which the couple could be hiding. David said that he would have agents posted near the Pakistani embassy in order to track embassy personnel that participated in suspect activities, and Harden said that the CIA had two leading suspects — Rahman and Junaid. David asked for their photographs and when he received them he thanked Harden and said that his agents would keep a close watch on those two "diplomats". Harden then said that he had informed Eugene of these developments and that he would be arriving in Brussels the following afternoon.
While these events were taking place at the Pakistani safe house, the Israeli delegation and US embassy and the odd couple — Kim the North Korean and Mahmoud the Iranian — were also in session trying to determine where Nagib and Alia could be. Their thought processes were quite similar to those of the Israelis and Americans leading to the same logical conclusion that the culprits must have contacted, or intended to contact, the Pakistanis. Kim had disqualified the notion they had earlier that the Islamic State may be a viable alternative reasoning that the IS was not in a position to pursue nuclear weapons in view of the setbacks of their forces in northern Syria, close to the Turkish border, and in the quagmire in what used to be Iraq where the US and its allies kept unleashing aerial strikes from unmanned drones and fighter jets flown by Jordanians, Saudis and even Iranians. Mahmoud agreed as the last thing the Shiite regime in Iran wanted was an atomic bomb in the hands of the most radical Sunni movement that executed fellow Shiites on a daily basis. So, at Kim's suggestion they posted two teams of agents, a North Korean team and an Iranian team across the road from the Pakistani embassy.