Shareef's Plane
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Shareef's plane (the physical crash site/flight) is the forensic locus invoked for the alleged phone call; its technical status (jammed communications, bugged, and altered battery) is the factual basis Fitzwallace uses to disprove Qumar's tape claim.
Implied as silent, controlled and instrumented — an isolated site that was under U.S. technical control and surveillance.
Site of alleged transmission and the evidence chain's origin story — central to the credibility of the provocation claim.
Symbolizes the slipperiness of truth in covert operations and the danger of manufactured narratives.
Not publicly accessible; under military/intelligence control and subject to operational secrecy.
Shareef's Plane is the distant, out-of-room locus of contested evidence. It is described as having been monitored and compromised (phone disabled, battery swapped), and therefore shifts from being alleged proof of a call to being evidence of US operational control.
Not present in the room but invoked as ominous and forensic—its wreckage carries political weight and the suggestion of staged narratives.
Site of the alleged cell call and the forensic pivot point for the advisors' debate.
Represents the fragile boundary between covert operations and public accountability; a crashed site turned into a political weapon.
Likely secured by military/intelligence authorities; under investigation and not publicly accessible in detail.
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In the Situation Room Nancy McNally bursts in, furious and blunt: “Let's attack.” Her impatience—born of repeated provocations—collides with Admiral Fitzwallace's grim, almost black-humored realism, as he graphically warns of …
In the Situation Room Nancy McNally arrives furious and demands a strike on Qumar. Admiral Fitzwallace immediately punctures the rush to retaliation by producing a technical refutation: there could be …