For such a time as this: ELEVENTH HOUR, a novel about tomorrow, today. The video was 52 seconds long—crisp, clean, in brilliant color. No audio. Just al-Zawahiri rising from his seated position, standing wearily, resolutely, facing the camera. He was speaking in Arabic, and Ali could read his lips. “Allahu Akbar.” Allah is the greatest. And then, “Glory be to Allah. Praise be to Allah. There is no god but Allah, and Allah is most great, dearer to me than everything on which the sun rises.” “I don’t like this,” said Ali, wagging his head, distressed. “This is a last rites prayer, a prayer invoking the help of Hazrat Isra’il—upon whom be peace—the angel of death and resurrection!” We saw Romano then. Through the eye of the camera, he walked up to al-Zawahiri, raised a pistol to the man’s head—and fired once.
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