Terrorist Border Raid - LIARS

Dusk of one more day was swiftly approaching in As-Sulaymāniyyah Province as the Blackhawk MH-60 and Apache attack helicopter lifted off in clouds of swirling sand leaving behind the men of the border-outpost, "Fort Wilderness." This was "Navaho Country," a phrase coined by the Arizona National Guard Commander, Colonel Maxwell H. Heston to describe one of the wildest provinces in Iraq, a 150-kilometer swath of mountainous terrain that offered an ideal place for outlaws, smugglers...and terrorists.

Most of the contraband going through this region would ultimately wind up in devastating attacks on civilian and military targets in Iraq. The President and the generals would be blamed for the carnage in the featured headlines of tomorrows tabloids. It was a daily assault on both fronts.

The Colonel glanced briefly at his watch, and then at the junior officer, Lieutenant Tim McFarland rocking back and forth in a seated position across from him, fast asleep. The Lieutenant was a young m