Excerpt from THE ERICKSEN CONNECTION: The terrorist mastermind's headquarters is in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
WOLFGANG BELTERMANN, A TALL, MUSCULAR German with a salt and pepper beard and hair, approached the large oak door that led into the chairman of Al-Bustani Group of Companies' office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The bodyguard stood ten feet from the entrance with his pistol holstered and waved him to enter. Abdullah, Omar, and Beltermann sat on a large, dark brown leather sofa. Khalid's oldest son, Faisal, his chief security director, sat on a black leather chair. Ziad walked by the window overlooking a parking lot a few hundred yards away. He rubbed his eyes with his hand, turned, strolled to a leather chair, and slumped down in it. A minute later, a Hummingbird robot drone maintained a holding pattern directly outside Khalid’s office window. Equipped with a video camera and zoom lens, the drone transmitted images back to the CIA's unmarked van three hundred meters from the office. Another Agency team shot a laser ear microphone to the chairman's tenth-floor suite window from their parked van on street two hundred meters away. The system transmitted an invisible infra-red beam to the window, causing a slight vibration from the window panel and generating a modulated sound converted into electronic signals by the receiver in the Agency's van, and started recording the meeting.
The terrorist mastermind's headquarters is in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
WOLFGANG BELTERMANN, A TALL, MUSCULAR German with a salt and pepper beard and hair, approached the large oak door that led into the chairman of Al-Bustani Group of Companies' office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The bodyguard stood ten feet from the entrance with his pistol holstered and waved him to enter.
Abdullah, Omar, and Beltermann sat on a large, dark brown leather sofa. Khalid's oldest son, Faisal, his chief security director, sat on a black leather chair. Ziad walked by the window overlooking a parking lot a few hundred yards away. He rubbed his eyes with his hand, turned, strolled to a leather chair, and slumped down in it.
A minute later, a Hummingbird robot drone maintained a holding pattern directly outside Khalid’s office window. Equipped with a video camera and zoom lens, the drone transmitted images back to the CIA's unmarked van three hundred meters from the office. Another Agency team shot a laser ear microphone to the chairman's tenth-floor suite window from their parked van on street two hundred meters away. The system transmitted an invisible infra-red beam to the window, causing a slight vibration from the window panel and generating a modulated sound converted into electronic signals by the receiver in the Agency's van, and started recording the meeting.