Transcript For Strip 945

Panel 1
Technicians working on a nuclear weapon.
Caption: 'It was an open secret that Israel had a stockpile of nuclear weapons, as was revealed by Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Negev Nuclear Research Center.
Caption: 'Israel maintained a policy of 'nuclear ambiguity,' neither confirming nor denying reports that its stockpile ranged in size from 40 to 400 warheads.'

Panel 2
Map of the Middle East, hilighting the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Najaf, Karbala and Qom.
Caption: 'But for Farnswoth's purposes, he only needed six, one each for Islam's holiest cities: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Najaf, Karbala and Qom.
Caption: 'But he was also concerned with the Sufi Islam holy cities of Konya, Turkestan, Uqba, Harar, Alexandria, Touba, Ajmer, Pakpattan and Sylhet.'
Panel 3
Close-up of Theo, now in his 60s, looking evil.
Caption: 'Farnsworth understood that one of the 'Five pillars of Islam' was the hajj – a required once-in-a lifetime pilgrimage of all Muslims to the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca.
Caption: 'The destruction of Mecca would, he reasoned, destroy the foundation of Islam and the faith of its adherents.
Panel 4
Theo at the Israeli control center, looking suspicious.
Caption: 'The other cities were included in Farnsworth's scheme because they might become alternative locations for the hajj.
Caption: 'His vengeance-obsessed mind reasoned that if the hajj were made impossible, Islam itself would crumble and fall.'

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