BEg2 ch25 summary - forgot the most important part

[Michael Bailey]

Literally, the most important part:

In that slack corner of the afternoon when it’s too discouraging even to
look at a clock, March, as if remembering she came up here to check for
clues, stoops and picks up a screw cap of some kind, weathered gray, two-,
two-and-a-half-inch diameter, dings here and there, some faded writing in
marker pen. Maxine squints at it. “What’s this, Arabic?”

        “Has a sort of military look, doesn’t it?”

         “You think . . .”

         “Listen . . . do you mind if we show this to Igor? Just a hunch.”


So they show it to Igor.

“Sure, blast from past, part from Stinger missile launcher. Battery-coolant
receptacle cap.”

     ….  “This writing on the battery cap, what’s it say, can you read it?”

         “Pashto, ‘God is great,’ maybe legit, maybe CIA forgery to look
like mujahedeen, covering
            up some caper of their own.”