The Dreadful Menace: Nuclear terror may strike anywhere at anytime

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It was close to midnight and the streets outside the historic medieval district of Tours, le Vieux, were almost deserted. Two men silently made their way toward the famous cathedral. Both wanted to carry out a dreadful act, for opposing reasons. Their pathways to the impressive Gothic cathedral were diagonally different. Each carried a backpack, and by the looks of it, both backpacks were quite heavy.

One man slowly limped along Rue Lavoisier, taking 10 minutes to cover the short distance from Chateau de Tours. The limp was due to an injury he had received fighting Islamic Jihadist rebels with the French special forces in Chad. His name was Guillam St. Pierre, but he was completely ignorant of his British namesake, Peter Guillam, who was a fictitious character in several of John Le Carre's espionage novels. The French Guillam was an unhappy man. His wife had left him because of his excessive drinking, that had taken a turn for the worse after the last elections. He had hoped that the Front National, the right-wing party he wholeheartedly supported, would win the second round of the Presidential elections, and was deeply disappointed when it didn't. He strongly believed that the waves of Islamic refugees threatened the French traditional way of life. He anticipated that the predictions of Michel Houellebecq's dystopic novel, 'Submission', would open people's eyes to see that France was already in the process of becoming an Islamic stronghold in Europe. He was now on a self-imposed mission that was meant to force the true French people to rise and reverse the trend. A provocative act, so extreme, so monstrous, so atrocious, he hoped would serve as a wake-up call. He had carefully considered his target.

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