Esfir Haidi was originally from Iran and had been an ASIO operative for some years. He remembered well the evacuation of Akram Hussein and his family, being a huge success for the Australians at the time. Akram had been a key engineer in the design and process of achieving nuclear capability under the recent Iranian regime.
Esfir was previously a part of the old regime's intelligence service and had defected to Australia quietly many years ago. At that time he could foresee the fall of the government in Iran and the introduction of Sharia Law. As a modern, well educated man, Esfir knew that the trends of the western world would be of little interest to the newly restored, traditional social system in Iran. Esfir realized at that time there was no point remaining in his homeland.
His departure had left behind his wife and two beloved children, Javeed and Koosha. To this day he does not know what happened to them. He hoped deep down that one day, as part of his work for the Australian Secret Intelligence Organization, he would learn of their fate.
The call on his ASIO phone message system surprised him, but also buoyed his hopes for another assignment in the Middle East. It was an advice that his teenage son "Ahreed" was in Canberra, being prepared for activation as an anti-terrorist informer. Of course, this was not one of his real sons. It was simply the creation of a family unit, for undetected travel into the world of the human traffickers at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea.
Esfir went back to his study and picked up the ASIO file on the boy. No mother, his father another operative like Esfir, the boy's brother mixed up with radicals in the community. It seemed to Esfir that ASIO had the right pick. But how would this pair work on the ground, when they were eventually placed in Libya?
He made a brief call to his housekeeper. He needed a room to be prepared for the boy. It was important that Esfir establish a good relationship with the fourteen year old Ahreed, so that outsiders would not notice that the two of them were a false creation of ASIO. This was just as important in Sydney as it was in Pakistan, or Libya, or in Egypt. He hoped Ahreed's language skills were up to scratch in Arabic.
All of these locations were possible 'drop points' for the pair, as they collected and reviewed information about the money making schemes of ISIS. His ASIO assignment for most of the current year was about the financing of the 'Hundred Year War'. He wondered how long it would take the boy to be inducted into ASIO and sent to his house to live. He also considered whether ASIO wanted the boy overseas or here in Australia.
Esfir had his own system of training prepared for this Ahreed boy, and he needed additional time to ensure the kid was ready for deployment in the Middle East. He looked down through his notes...
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