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As Dubaku and his team prepared to leave Dubaku got a call from his associate, Bob Warner.
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Dubaku: What is it Bobby?
Bob: Are you ready?
Dubaku: We're leaving now.
Bob: I trust I don't have to remind you how time sensitive this is.
Dubaku: Turn on the news, by 9am it'll be covering our actions. Don't worry.
Bob: It's my job to worry, especially considering what's at stake.
Dubaku: I know what's at stake, and not just today. For the sake of my people, I'm more than willing to die.
Bob: And I'm willing to die for my people, I just hope it won't come to that.
Dubaku: We'll be ready.
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Jack Bauer arrived at CTU. Tony Almeida greeted him and they got down to business. Jack did want to be useful, to protect his president, but he hoped to avoid George Mason. At the White House president Bartlett is given a refresher course on Sangala. It was a relatively small nation in Africa. Centuries ago Europeans colonized the land and divided the locals into two ethnic groups, Bawa and Askari. The Europeans claimed that the Bawa were more advanced phisically and intellectually. In reality they were simply the ones who collaborated with the occupiers, and not coincidentally were the ones chosen to run the local government. 50 years ago the Europeans left and the Bawa maintained control of the government with an apartheid-like system in which the Askari couldn't run for office or even vote. Alqueda tried to take advantage of the situation by allying with some of the Askari rebel groups. Because most Bawa were christian and most Askari were muslim some saw this as a religious conflict. Today president Deby of Sangala was officially making his country an ally of America in the war on terror. Some in America were against allying with a government like this, and were attempting to hold a protest rally nearby. President Bartlett had long ago developed a thick skin, hardly a day went by when he wasn't burned in effigy, half the time by American citizens. He felt these protesters were mostly harmless, but there ws always the chance one of them might take action. He hoped to be able to convince Deby to negotiate with general Bashir of the Askari rebels, give the Askari more rights. At any rate, he needed Deby to crack down on terrorist elements. Meanwhile, at the Bauer home, Teri begins writing her husband a note. Their marriage had been hard since Kimberly's death, not made easier by the fact that they'd both committed adultery since then. Maybe their marriage was no longer worth fighting for, still, Teri feared she would never be able to say this to Jack's face. Teri planned to leave Jack while he was at CTU. She always knew he'd return to CTU eventually, he might be there all day. With a little luck, she'd be hundreds of miles away before he even read her note.
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