Acceptable Damage

Not far from the central square of Aleppo, a unit of Syrian service members came across a badly wounded man who kept repeating as if in a delirium: “Jihad… Moscow… the championship… hajj…” The soldiers paid no attention to the words of the dying man, but the Israeli intelligence officer embedded in the unit did. A few days later, the employees of Israel’s military intelligence sent information to their Russian colleagues about a grand terrorist attack being prepared in Moscow. Where and when the explosion would happen is unknown. It is only known that the terrorist attack will somehow be connected to the 2018 FIFA World Cup…