Chapter 6

By the time Callen and Sam had arrived back to the Mission, Hetty had already spoken to the Wonder Twins. Both Eric and Nell had their heads down at their computer stations diligently looking for any and all information on one Jamal Mohammed Haswari.

Hetty's phone rang just as the two agents stood in front of the big screen in OPS hoping for the wizardry of Eric and Nell to happen. "Agent Gibbs you are five minutes late." Her demeanor was curmudgeonly and if Callen didn't know better he'd have sworn that Gibbs had learned it from Hetty. "What do you have for me?"

Gibbs had known that he'd catch it from her but the delay had been unavoidable. "Sorry Henrietta. We were getting some good intel and I thought that would be more important than punctuality."

Hetty grimaced but knew he was right. "I'll let it slide this time Jethro. Let me have it!"

Gibbs gave the floor to Agent McGee who sent some literature through to the OPS center. "Jamal Mohammed Haswari is twenty-two years old. He was born in Gaza to Rashid and Fatima Haswari. His mother was a doctor in a refugee camp and his father was a taxi driver. It was an arranged marriage. Jamal had two older sisters. Both were caught in a suicide bombers blast area. Neither survived the blast. Jamal was eleven at the time. The next year Jamal approached Hamas to join. They had originally planned to use him as a suicide bomber but he proved more valuable in time to come. He was a quick study and learned to build bombs but that still didn't change the leadership's mind. He started to plan bomb strategies and that made the leaders sit-up and take notice. His value was planning attacks that were more effective. He began to move his way up the leadership ladder. A year ago he moved out of the leadership limelight and no one knew why. We think we do.

About the same time that his sisters died he lost another family member, Ari Haswari. Ari died in Gibbs basement after playing cat and mouse with NCIS for months. Apparently his death hit Jamal hard according to inside sources. That's what sent him to Hamas not his sisters' deaths.

Last year Ari Haswari's half-brother, Sergi Mischnev, came to Washington to seek revenge for his brother's death. He came after Gibbs. It took him eleven years to do that. Agent Fornell of the FBI shot and killed him as he tried to assassinate Agent Gibbs. We think that is what finally set off Jamal. As far as we can see Agent Blye was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Hetty nodded in acceptance. Her face showed distaste for what Jamal had put Agent Blye through. He'd pay for that error in judgement. "Understood Agent McGee. Gibbs are there any other insights into our Haswari?"

Gibbs sadly shook his head. "None, whatever McGee gave you is what we got."

Eric chose that moment to pop up. "I think that I've got something. All of the bombs were set in places that the Molina Cartel does business except where Talia and Kensi were. They've never done anything in that neighborhood. Why plant one there? Maybe they were trying to draw someone from NCIS out? They had to know that we'd be called out.

Callen turned to Eric "Elaborate on that for us Eric."

Eric put up the data on the screen and sent it to MTAC in DC. Deeks and Talia's partner were sent to the Staples Center. The Molinas scalp tickets there quite often.

The Metropolitan Water Center on Hyacinth Street is one of the many locations for the Molina Cartel to have their drug dispersals and the Hyatt in Laguna Beach is one of their drop offs for their human trafficking gigs. The girls are traded in broad daylight in the side alley. LAPD is after them there all the time.

Here's the thing, they do absolutely nothing in the warehouse where they took Kensi and Talia. As a matter of fact, that is in the Reynosa Cartel's territory. It would cause a major turf war if it was known that they lured federal agents to a trap on Reynosa turf.

Sam's eyes turned to Eric and they squinted. He saw where Eric was going with this information. "So while Haswari set up the bombs to get a toe-hold in the United States he also pulled one over on his hosts. I wonder how the Molinas would react to that news?"

Callen grunted in acknowledgement. Sam knew that usually meant he was planning something. "Eric can you find Haswari for me?"

Eric shook his head no. "We don't know if he has a cell phone and if we knew he did do we know the number? It is probably a burn phone anyway."

Sam's ears perked up. "Eric check back to the days that Kensi was missing. Check the cell phone towers around that farm where we found her. See what you can find."

Eric went back to his computer and started the search.

Hetty turned to the screen with Gibbs and his team. "Thank you Agent Gibbs and your team for the information. We'll find and contain Mr. Haswari for you."

Jethro let out one of his throaty laughs. Everyone in DC knew of the legend Hetty Lange so the looks on their faces were incredulous.

Sam and G looked at each other with a "What the Hell" look.

Gibbs wasn't done it seemed. "Not so fast Henrietta, I'm not done yet. We are on a seven o'clock flight tonight to you. We land around seven o'clock your time. We'll see you first thing in the morning. I'll want an update on Agent Blye and Jamal Haswari, seven AM sharp. The screen went dark.

Hetty stood there with her mouth open. No one had ever steam-rolled her like Gibbs just did. She adjusted to it and turned to her team. "You heard the man. Go home, get some sleep, and be here before seven in the morning. I'm sure he'll be here on time, if not early. This one is eating him up."

Callen had to agree. He wondered what exactly had happened between Ari Haswari and Jethro. He was going to try to pry it out of DiNozzo.

Both Sam and Callen left the Wizards of Wow to their work.

Nell had kept her nose in her own computer and would for a very long time this evening. She kept track of her friend in the hospital. For the last two years Kensi, Renata and she had hung out together and had become good friends. They went out, met at each other's apartments for girl's night and clubbed together once in a great while. Renata would send information to keep Nell updated on Kensi's condition. If it had been one of the guys she'd send information to give to Hetty. So far there'd been no information, however the night was still young.