Rish informs the two aircraft of the bombs on board, and instructs them to follow his plane. Ahmed Rish is aboard the small plane, his voice recognized by Jacob Hausner, who has had dealings with Rish in the past.
If he had the 20mm cannons on board he might have been able to take the plane down, but he had left them off on the advice of Tom Richardson and American Colonel and attaché.Ĭommunication begins between the concordes and the smaller plane. Teddy waits too long, and no longer has a clear shot with the weapons he is carrying. Miriam did not think it would be a good idea to start the process of peace with an act of aggression. She had requested at a pre-flight meeting that everyone use caution if there were signs of trouble. Lascov prepares to shoot the plane down, but hesitates, thinking about his lover Miriam on board Concorde 02. Not long into the flight, another plane appears on the radar, refusing to respond to repeated calls from the air force. The planes leave Lod International Airport with no problems, under military escort, led by Teddy Lascov, a brigadier general of the Israeli Air Force. Ahmed Rish, an Iraqi terrorist, has been planning to destroy the mission of peace, and hold the parties on both planes hostage in Babylon. Unbeknownst to them, there are bombs with transmitters in the tail section of each plane, placed there during construction more than a year earlier. Two Concordes from Israel set out for New York, to take part in a historical meeting, with the hopes of establishing peace in the Middle East after centuries of unrest. Escaping in the end, the peace delegation hopes that peace can still be established. Crash landing in Babylon, the passengers and crew mount a defense against the group of Arabs that wish to hold them hostage to stop the peace meeting. A delegation from Israel is hijacked by terrorists set against any form of peace in the Middle East. By the Rivers of Babylon, by Nelson DeMille, is the account of a mission of peace gone horribly wrong.
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