American Terrorist (The Rayna Tan Action Thrillers Book 1) by Wesley Robert Lowe Page B

not the only one who has lived in Haji land. The accent sounded pretty authentic to me.”
    “It’s not the accent. It’s the language. The guy most definitely muttered he was going to get absolutely and completely ‘piss drunk’ after they were done.”
    A pause. “Lots of Muslims drink.”
    “This has nothing to do with violating the Koran. ‘Piss drunk’ is not an expression any Middle Easterner would use. As a matter of fact, while most of them spoke Arabic, there was another darker guy he was talking to in fluent English.”
    “So he isn’t a real Muslim and is just along for a joyride?”
    “That’s not how I would put it but that’s the idea.”
    “What about the guy holding the camera?” Boom Boom asked.
    Rayna shook her head as she moved the cursor to the location where the two men walked alongside each other. “I can’t figure out his accent but look at his skin. Not American black or South Asian, though. Hispanic, maybe?”
    Julio, who had been watching out of the corner of his eye, piped up. “Looks Filipino to me, especially if he’s from the South. Huge Muslim population in Mindinao with a lot of terrorists.”
    “A Filipino in Iraq?”
    “Borderless terrorism. What can I say?”
    Rayna pointed to the executioner. “He obviously is fluent in Syrian and English, but his English is not the kind they teach in schools in the Middle East. It has a slight American touch to me, although it doesn’t sound all that obvious.”

    ***

    As Barry, Julio, Helena and Rayna were transported to a private airstrip, conversation continued with Boom Boom over the airwaves. After careful review, they agreed that the American Muslim Militia was likely a poorly funded group in its early stages. While uncertain of the film’s exact usage, the high quality of production suggested that, rather than being a real terrorist threat to America, the movie was to be used for fundraising and propaganda purposes.
    “But can we really be sure that they don’t have the wherewithal to attack America? After all, it only took a few Amazon courier quality drones loaded with C4 to wreak havoc on the Washington Monument,” stated Helena.
    “To organize, it takes infrastructure,” said Barry. “I don’t think they have that.”
    “What’s infrastructure these days?” asked Julio. “A bunch of kids with cell phones, access to the internet and too much time on their hands.”
    “American Muslim Militia is a really corny name,” stated Rayna.
    “It doesn’t have to appeal to you. It has to appeal to the loser teenager who feels like an outcast, no connection to the world including his family, kill the world, drug user, Goth, you name it. “American Muslim Militia” is a hot button name to them,” said Julio.
    “If that’s who the American Muslim Militia is, then there’s not a hope in hell that we can chase down all the potential candidates out there. Every misguided kid with a grudge against a teacher, or a girlfriend he couldn’t get to look back at him, could be the next James Holmes, the Colorado movie theater killer. But that’s not likely who the American Muslim Militia is. Even if they don’t have a ton of dough, it takes at least some organization to coordinate a raid like we saw. And there’s little point in making a threat unless you have some plans to follow through on it.”
    Barry looked at Julio and Helena. “Have you gone through your list?”
    “In the United States, guesstimates are that between five and ten percent of the Islamic organizations have actual or possible terrorist leanings,” Helena said. “That doesn’t include the prisons or so-called religious community centers, which brings the total up to about seventy-five hundred.”
    Barry nodded and addressed Rayna and Boom Boom. “Julio has been working on this list for years. The top fifty are those with known present terrorist ties. The next fifty are highly suspicious and have funded or sponsored terrorists abroad but, to the