Everyone crammed into the conference room for the meeting with Hammond. Michelle was confident that her people could handle the situation. She looked at Bob Cooley the new Field Op's director and smiled at him. She did not mind him he was a decent guy, he wasn't Jack, but no one was like Jack. She wondered if he was ready for the day they were about to have. She had two like it since she had been at CTU L.A. and she knew this would be her third and hardest because Tony wouldn't be there to help out.

"Hi Michelle. How are you?" Bob asked as he looked around the room to make sure all of the people from his department were there.

"It's going to be a long day ask me in twelve hours." Michelle said smiling at him.

Everyone stared at the television screen in the main room. CNN just broke in with breaking news.

"We have just received video feed, oh my god." The reporter looked at the screen in shock, seemingly lost in the teleprompter. The other report jumped in, "It seems today during a press conference the President was just assassinated. It seems a car full of explosives drove by the country house of President Keeler. Everyone there is presumed dead. Fire fighters are now putting out the fire. WE will give you more details as we receive them."

The TV cut to commercial everyone in the room was dead silent in shock. The phone rang and Michelle put Hammond on speaker phone, "Everyone is here sir."

Kim and Chase slipped into the room quietly not yet hearing about President Keeler.

Hammonds voice came over the phone, "I'm sure you all just heard about President Keeler."

Chase looked confused as did Kim. She knew it was a bad idea to sneak off for lunch, but it was almost worth it.

"It seems CTU New York got a threat earlier today and did nothing about it. We have reason to believe that all of the attacks today are related. Find out who's behind it, and try to stop more from happening." Hammond gave his orders like a general, the men already knowing what hey had to do, and not really needing anyone to tell them, but always there had to be that one person to tell them what they already knew had to be done for bureaucratic reasons.

Michelle looked around and the thought occurred to her, this is how people in other countries must feel the looming threat hanging over them, not knowing who might be a suicide bomber and who might be just out to kill you, she laughed almost thinking this had always been the same why did it feel so new now?

Hammond finished his orders and people filed out of the room to go to work. Michelle and Bob sat in the room together not sure of how to proceed. "Bob do your people have any clue as to who might be behind this?"

"Nothing. No one has expected responsibility for it." Bob looked at the screen again and everyone got silent.

The report said, "We just got a phone call from the supposed people responsible for the Oil Reserve bombings, gas station bombings and it also appears the assassination of President Keeler."

The message was played, "As long as the Sinful Western Empire exist so will it's little brother Israel. That is why, we the soldiers of Allah, have waged war. We will bring fear into the hearts of the western infidel who's blood is black. You are bleeding now, you have a chance to save yourself, pull all troops out of the middle East and stop any and all aid to Israel and we shall let you live again in peace. Till our demands are meant you shall live in fear, we shall attack again."

Bob looked at Michelle and said, "Well that makes our list of suspects to be out to about a trillion Middle Eastern terrorist members known and unknown."

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