4:37 pm
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Eric Carter begins questioning Jamal.
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Eric: I assume you know about the bombing in Virginia.
Jamal: Yeah, and I had nothing to do with that. I made some mistakes in my youth, I didn't see much of a future for myself back then.
Eric: Yeah, your gang leader, he owned a video arcade and paid off his dealers with free pizza and game tokens. So for the most part you were just giving your salary right back to him.
Jamal: I'd seen the effects of mass incarceration in mu neighborhood, figured no matter what I did that would be my fate. I was also an athiest back then, no hope of punishment or fear of reward, so I figured that free pizza and game tokens were as good as it would ever get for me.
Eric: What changed?
Jamal: I found Allah, and I have a kid now. I'm hoping for her sake that I was wrong. That's why I helped organize these games between jewish and muslim children, building bridges. It might not be much but it's something.
Eric: For someone who's turned their life around, you have some interesting friends.
Jamal: They made mistakes, same as me.
Eric: Have you ever heard of the Revolutionary Communist Party?
Jamal: Yeah, a radical marxist group. My cellmate was into that, and yes I have read the Revolutionary Worker. For a while it made sense, but I was never a member.
Eric: But you're still on their mailing list.
Jamal: I tried ending my subscription, they don't care.
Eric: Still, it occurs to me that you were at the game, maybe you stole your father in laws keys and gave them to a like minded individual.
Jamal: I didn't.
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At the White House president Allen and vice-president Keaton are discussing the bombing.
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Allen: Do you think the Taliban was involved in this?
Keaton: It might have been a rogue group. I have no particular love for Hekmetyar, but he wouldn't jeopardize the withdrawel, not when he's on the verge of victory.
Allen: And if it is a rogue faction, can we really trust Hekmetyar to discipline them?
Keaton: At best our relationship with Hekmetyar is more about "Trust but verify." When push comes to shove I am not certain he will stand up to his own right flank. If he doesn't, we might have to return to Afghanistan.
Allen: There's always the hope that our soldiers can find the parties responsible before the withdrawel is complete, but time is running short.
Keaton: Indeed. There's something else, my old friend David Hoffman, his sentance begins next week and I'm worried about him. I'd like to go see him today.
Allen: Okay, but try to be back here soon.
Keaton: I will madam president.
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1:43 am Kabul time
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Rick and Kyle received leave from colonel Mcnamara to try and find Illiyeen and her son before the withdrawel was complete. Rick was a lousy father, but he couldn't leave his son to suffer under Taliban rule.
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4:44 pm D.C. time
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At CTU George Mason receives a call, from Jack Bauer.
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Mason: Jack, we've been looking for you.
Jack: I don't understand.
Mason: The person who "stole" your car used it in the bombing in Virginia.
Jack: That doesn't make sense, why would Alqueda use a stolen car for a bombing?
Mason: That's what we've been trying to figure out. We have Audrey, Kim, and the others from your barbeque, hoping they might have an answer. Where are you and Tony?
Jack: We're with Melanie Daniels, wife of Aslan.
Mason: Yeah, I know who he is. Does she know anything?
Jack: No, but we might be able to use her as bait to lure him out in the open. He's obsessed with killing her for dishonoring him.
Mason: Okay, we might be able to help with that.
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4:46 pm