TANK/ MUSTAPHA

         Tank woke up in intensive care at the Royal Liverpool Hospital forty eight hours later. He had woken just long enough to ask Grace, who was waiting by his bedside what happened. Then he passed out again and didn’t come round for another three days. The swelling to Tank`s brain caused by the concussion wave had nearly killed him. The surgeons had drilled a hole into his skull to relieve the pressure from the bleeding, and that saved his life.

         Seven Terrorist Task Force members lost their lives at the cathedral blast along with the nine members of compost corner, near the stadium.

         Mustapha never arrived at the hospital at all. Witnesses said that he was seen being helped away from the scene by an Asian man, who looked like he was related to him.

         Tank, Chen, Faz and the Major, returned to duty as normal, once all the scars had healed. The Terrorist Task Force tracked the alleged movements of the ghost like Yasser Ahmed across the planet. Several reports of him were received from the Philippines and Afghanistan over the following six months, but nothing concrete ever surfaced.

         Eventually a report came in from an American black operations team that specialised in rendition. These people don’t officially exist of course but they specialise in counter terrorism and interrogation under torture. This process is usually carried out on foreign soil. The American people are not made aware of such procedures being utilised by their government. Countries with a broader moral outlook are used to extract information. Western populations cannot prove the use of torture if there are no Western witnesses to tell the tale.

         The black operations team reportedly captured Yasser Ahmed in Iraq. They interrogated him for two months in a prison in Chechnya. His heart had finally given in after eight weeks of intense torture and malnutrition. Tank cried when he saw the autopsy pictures and recognised the bite mark on the cheek of the corpse. Mustapha denied being Yasser Ahmed right up to the point where his heart stopped beating.