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weaker, the people of these cities looked up to Amca very much like children looking up at their parents and hoped on occasion to get a nod of approval, an acknowledgement of their existence. The leaders of Amca acted with friendship and admiration towards the people of some cities, with tolerance to others and utter contempt to a few that did not always tow the line. These last were the people of the city of Abab. Centuries before they had been powerful with scientists, mathematicians, philosophers and a culture second to none, but had gradually declined until they had nothing to offer the world besides the oil beneath the soil of their city.

Amca bought the Abab oil but secretly held these people in contempt as intellectually backward and having nothing else of value to offer. Many in the Abab world realised this and harboured a secret hate for the people of Amca and prayed to their God that one day they would have the power and the means to take revenge for this insult to their dignity. Had the leaders of Amca understood this and showed them genuine friendship and respect, this dangerous situation would not have arisen but the insult was given and history moved on relentlessly towards its own goal. Because of human nature, it was common knowledge that one bad word uttered, one insult, can take years of dedicated diplomacy to straighten things out.

Quietly, over many years a group was organised by the Abab people which penetrated Amca and many cities friendly to it so that its agents lived normal lives, had ordinary jobs and mixed with the general population. They were disciplined, highly trained, essentially invisible and simply waited for orders to strike. Their camouflage in society was so perfect that noone had any idea of their evil intent. Like metastasising cancer cells floating freely around the body, they moved quietly and unseen as they prepared their murderous work of destruction.

At long last, the orders to attack Amca finally came. One sunny day, one very ordinary day, there were two massive explosions in Amca that brought down two skyscrapers which stood next to each other like gigantic columns, a major landmark, killing almost three thousand people. The city was covered by a cloud of dust from the explosions and was in shock, outraged and emotionally wounded that anyone should hate its citizens so much that they would carry out such a monstrous act without apparent provocation. The emotional shock was greater because the people of Amca

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