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June 27th, morning, Brussels

Rahman and Junaid arrived together at the Pakistani embassy and entered the building's parking lot from the side of Dreve de Duc. They noticed that there appeared to be a few vans parked on the quiet side street, something that was quite unusual in this residential area. Although the official address of the embassy that was on Avenue Delleur the staff generally used the Dreve de Duc to access the parking lot entrance. Rahman told Junaid to behave normally and not stare at the vans and that they should pretend to go about their business as if everything was in order. Once inside the embassy they summoned the security guards and told them that the embassy was being watched by unknown entities and they should be exceptionally alert. Rahman then entered the ambassador's office and informed him that General Masood was in town and that they were all involved in a special operation that concerned national security. The ambassador was a political appointee and totally loyal to the government so was not pleased to learn that the Head of Intelligence, General Masood Azzam was on his turf without even giving him a courtesy call. He knew of course that Rahman really worked for the General and guessed that they were carrying out a clandestine operation. When Rahman asked him to call the local police and get them to chase away the watchers in the vans on Dreve de Duc he became very unhappy but had to cooperate with the powerful intelligence chief's request. As he finished talking to the ambassador Rahman's cell phone rang and when he answered it he recognized General Masood's voice. The General simply said that the deal was on and that Nagib and Alia must be brought to safety in Pakistan as quickly as possible, or at least to a secure place that was under Pakistani control.

The Israeli agents in the van across the street from the embassy saw the Belgian police patrol car drive down the street and pull up right behind them. They knew what was coming and before the policeman could get out of the patrol car the driver of the van started it and drove away in order to avoid being questioned. The policeman noted the van's license plate and quickly learned that it was rented by a local businessman. He didn't see that the passenger got out of the van as soon as it turned the corner onto Avenue Emile Van Becelaere and returned on foot to take a position outside the embassy. The driver of the black van with the CIA agents didn't wait for the patrol car to approach and drove away in a hurry. Further down the small narrow street the economy size car with the Iranians and the motorcycle with a North Korean agent noticed the commotion and they too preferred to avoid confrontation with the police so they took off in a hurry.

Rahman had watched the scene play out from the window of his office and laughed to himself how one patrol car got agents from several countries fleeing in a hurry. However, he now realized that there were at least four forces with a great interest in the Pakistani embassy and that it would not be easy to get to the safe house and move Nagib and Alia to a safer place without being followed. He didn't want to scare Nagib and Alia so he just called Nagib and informed him that the General gave his approval and deal was on. He added that they should be prepared to leave the apartment in a hurry, although he couldn't say exactly when they would have to move.

Rahman summoned Junaid to his office and told her that the situation was becoming more and more complicated and that they were ordered by General Masood to transport the couple to a safe place without being followed. Junaid asked what he had in mind and he answered that the safest place would be in Pakistan, but not in a large population center where people loyal to the government may suspect them and inform the officials about a strange couple of tourists. Junaid said that she had relatives in Gandaf that was about 120 km north of Islamabad the capital of Pakistani. These relatives were in the opposition to the government and its pro-American policy and lived near the Tarbele Dam. She said she thought that they owned a couple of houseboats that were moored on one of the beautiful lakes in the area. Rahman liked the idea but they still had to solve the problem of getting Alia and Nagib there without being detected by opposing intelligence services and by their own government's bureaucrats. Rahman looked at the Google Earth map to see where this lake was and suddenly realized that it was not too far from Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden had sought refuge until he was eliminated by a team of US Navy SEALs. He pointed this out to Junaid and said that he wasn't sure that the Americans wouldn't try to do the same thing in Gandaf, but she said that lightning doesn't strike twice and laughed.

Junaid checked the flights of PIA, the Pakistani airline, to Islamabad. She knew there were no PIA flights or from Brussels but she saw that there was an afternoon flight from Paris, via Milan to Islamabad. By car it would take a little over three hours to get to the center of Paris from Brussels if there was no heavy traffic and she reckoned that with Rahman driving they could probably make the trip to the Charles De Gaulle airport that was much closer than Paris center in two and a half hours or less. This meant that in order to catch the PIA afternoon flight they would have to leave Brussels before noon. She told Rahman that they would have to really hurry if they were to get out of Europe that day. Alternately, they could also catch a flight to London or any other European city serviced by PIA and then get to Pakistan with a different PIA flight. Rahman said that he preferred the Paris option as he was sure that Brussels airport was under surveillance. He realized that they had to shake off the agents that would be following them before going to the apartment and then hustle Nagib and Alia to Paris. Alia said she had a plan: they should dress up as Pakistani women and leave the embassy with a crowd of similarly dressed women — either as employees of the embassy or as Pakistani women who had business there. The foreign agents would not know who to follow as all the women will be with veils. Rahman liked the plan and asked her to book four tickets on the PIA flight from Paris to Islamabad and also warn Nagib and Alia to be ready for departure in 15 minutes while he made arrangements that a Pakistani intelligence agent from the Paris embassy will wait for them at the airport to pick up the car they would use to get from Brussles to the Paris Charles De Gaulle airport.

The Mossad agent that was waiting on Dreve De Duc road opposite the back entrance to the embassy pretending to be reading a newspaper saw a drove of some 20 women all dressed in Pakistani garments and veiled faces leave the building, get into the dozen or so cars that were parked there and drive out and turn onto Chaussee de la Hulpe. He phoned his partner in the van that was parked around the corner but they didn't know which car to follow. The CIA team, the North Koreans and the Iranians were in an identical conundrum and had to make a choice which car to follow based on instincts alone. Two of the cars from the Pakistani embassy turned off the throughway at the first junction, three more at the second junction and then split into three smaller streets, and the rest also turned off at different intersections. The agents in the two vans, the economy size car and the motorcycle guessed which car to follow. Rahman and Junaid saw the commotion and were pleased that no one had followed them. They reached the apartment building and Junaid ran up the stairs to get the American couple while Rahman removed the Pakistani female garb and veil and turned the car around. Junaid directed Alia to sit in the front passenger seat while she and Nagib got in the back and Rahman took off slowly to avoid drawing attention to the car.