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    Shaitan
    Shaitan
    Shaitan
    Ebook27 pages20 minutes

    Shaitan

    By Stephen Brown

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    After a terrorist attack on a busy airport in the south of England, a repentant suicide bomber is taken into custody and interviewed by an MI5 handler. A thought-provoking short in response to the attack on Zaventem airport in Brussels, March 2016.
    All author proceeds from this short story will be donated to the Rode Kruis charity in Belgium.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Brown
    Release dateMar 23, 2016
    ISBN9781311235961
    Shaitan
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    Stephen Brown

    Stephen Brown is Emeritus Professor of Learning Technologies and former Head of the School of Media and Communication at De Montfort University. He has been Senior Technology Adviser at the JISC Technologies Centre, Head of Distance Learning at BT, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Engineering Design, and President of the Association for Learning Technology. He has also been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an Associate Member of the Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors. Since 2005, he has been a registered European Commission research expert in the fields of Technology Enhanced Learning, Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage. He was a member of the AHRC Peer Review College for ten years.

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      Shaitan - Stephen Brown

      SHAITAN

      By Stephen Brown

      Copyright 2016 Stephen Brown

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      All victims of the insanity of terrorism

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      100% of all author profits will be donated to the Rode Kruis in Belgium

      http://www.rodekruis.be/en/

      Contents

      Title page

      Table of Contents

      Shaitan

      About the Author

      Other Works

      Chosen Charity

      SHAITAN

      All around the Terminal building alarms were going off and, together with the screams and sounds of panic, they all but drowned out the voice in the tannoy system pleading for calm. Up in the Communications Room, Airport Manager Charles Redman took his finger off the microphone switch and put it down again on the work station. He took off his glasses and ran his hands over his face. What the hell was happening?

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      A third device was then detonated near the passport control desks less than two minutes after the first had gone off, the reporter said directly into the camera, the sight of smoke billowing out from the grey glass and steel building behind her. "Sources from inside tell me there have been multiple deaths and

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