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The National Synagogue, Jerusalem, Israel. Tuesday 2nd December 2031. 23:55 (local time).

Jason, waited, with his small commando squad of five other special forces recruited men, in the shrubbery opposite the emergency doors of the exhibition hall. It was a cold night and their breath was condensing in the cold air, it had been raining for almost two days and the bushes were heavy with water. Jason pulled down his sight enhancement goggles, which allowed him to see all light from the ultraviolet to the infra-red, there was one body-heat scanner fixed to the wall above the exit doors. The scanner was not an issue as the whole squad was wearing gel-suits that almost stopped the radiation of body-heat. He saw that there was no activity in this part of the car park, so Jason led his squad out of the bushes and into the flood-lights that bathed the area around the synagogue in nnear-daylight. The gel-suits also had a fibre-optic camouflage outer skin that made them almost invisible, when the light enhancer was switched on, which was light absorbing in the dark. No one in the security office noticed the slight wavering of the picture close to the exit, and it would have taken a very close look indeed for it to be noticed.

One of the squad produced a tool, one that had become known as 'The Opener', that consisted of two micro thin grapheme filament plates that were slid either between the jams or the gap, of doors. At the flick of a switch the plates formed right-angled plates, a lever would then be operated and the two plates were forced apart, forcing the hinges to burst and opened the door. The Opener had been designed for rescue services and the various versions had mostly taken the place of the old 'Jaws of Life', but their advantages had quickly been recognised by the military and police. The exit doors creaked and then popped open, the chewing gum that Sitta had deposited on the sensor during his visit, had worked perfectly, and no alarm sounded; they were in.