When the three of them met at noon in Doron's apartment they decided to use the same ploy to extract information from one of the scientists. They thought that it would easier to do that with the older of the two, the divorced engineer called Stavros. The two intelligence officers had already located the address given by Guido on Google Earth maps and Street View photos but the team still had to find a way to seize Stavros in broad daylight without setting off alarms. So they pulled out the oldest trick in the book — seducing Stavros with a woman that presented him with an offer he couldn't refuse.
Finding a willing and able woman proved to be quite simple and just a matter of offering the right amount of money to the right type of woman. They invited one of the high-class call girls, Alexis, who came to Doron's apartment and after hearing their proposal a little haggling took place and an agreement was reached on the price for her services. Her part was very simple — she was to knock on Stavros's door pretending to be lost while looking for a person who had called for her special services and asking for permission to use his toilet as she suddenly felt unwell. Then she would ask him if she could lie down for a moment. The way she looked no red blooded Greek man could refuse her request. A minute later Yakir would ring the bell and when the door opened he would see Alexis and fly into a rage saying that he had called for her services. He would then overpower Stavros and inject him with the tranquillizer, pay Alexis and send her on her way. Doron and David would then come to the apartment and replay the ISIS executioner scene and get Stavros to speak. Once again the plan was fraught with holes but they knew that Guido might warn Stavros to disappear and time was of the essence.
Surprisingly the plan worked and they quickly had Stavros trussed in a chair and gagged in his own apartment. The John the Beheader act worked wonders and Stavros was more than willing to cooperate. David was mainly interested in two things: if Stavros knew the intended target of the device, and more importantly if he could describe it. Stavros said that to the best of his knowledge, as he had been told by the professor, the device was to be used only for blackmail purposes and never to be detonated. He understood, without being expressly told, that it would serve to purify Europe of unwanted foreign elements, and would be shared by several likeminded organizations. The description of the device matched the implosion bomb model and the dimensions he gave confirmed that it was more or less like a stripped down version of the "fat man" unsophisticated atomic weapon. His information about the container did not add anything new as he only saw it for a brief moment when the device was placed in it and he did not notice the exact name painted on it. He could not provide any new details about Ollie beyond the fact that he visited the lab in Padova quite frequently and often with a large Viking type called Andreas. When questioned about the workforce he told them that there were about a dozen employees from different countries and the only people he knew were his Greek colleague and Professor Modena. When he was shown a photo of Dr. Smalley he recognized him immediately as Dr. Jay, and David figured that the nickname was derived from the initial of his first name, Jason. Stavros said that all the employees kept pretty much to themselves and were warned not to relate any personal details. After warning him that if he called anyone about the interrogation they would get to him and cut his head off with a dull knife, the Israeli team left the apartment after giving Stavros another dose of the tranquillizer that would keep him quiet in wonderland until the next morning.
At the central mosque, Immad looked at Ollie and smiled when he saw the French beard that he had grown during the past week. He then took a Swedish passport out of his pocket and looked at the photograph of the previous owner from which it was stolen in Dubrovnik. Apparently there were no suitable Swedish tourists that even remotely resembled Ollie or were approximately the same age and with the same build in Tirana, or for that matter in Albania. Immad told Ollie that the price would be higher than expected due to the extra costs involved in getting this passport. He also explained that Ollie would have to make some further changes with his hair style but would not have to dye it, as he had previously thought. When he handed over the passport, after a substantial sum of money was transferred, Ollie opened it and looked at the photograph of Andreas Nester Burkhart, age 33, height of 1.82 m, blue eyes, balding blond hair, with a little French goatee beard and a small scar on his left cheek partly covered by the beard. The irony of being called Andreas was not lost on Ollie. Immad said that he would take Ollie to a local barbershop where his appearance would be slightly altered to match the photograph. When the changes had been made Immad told Ollie that he should use the passport quickly and sparingly as it might soon be reported as stolen.
Ollie had heard that getting into Israel as a lone traveler could be problematic since the border control officers were automatically suspicious of young single men arriving in Israel, regardless of their nationality and appearance. He reckoned that the best way to enter the country without drawing unwanted attention to himself would be to join a church group on a pilgrimage to the holy places. He decided to take a flight from Tirana to Oslo, in Norway, and then cross into Sweden by train and book a sightseeing trip to the Holy Land with one of the many church groups. He was sure that his Swedish passport would not be scrutinized scrupulously in Oslo as it may have been in Stockholm or other airports in Sweden where perhaps an alert for a missing passport may have been issued.
According to the schedule of the Rijeka shipping agent the container would be due to arrive in Haifa between June 10th and June 17th, so Ollie reckoned that he should join a group that would set off for Israel around the middle of June. The Rijeka agent had arranged all the documentation and paperwork for the "agricultural machinery" to be delivered to the Khodori Institute in Tulkarm, near Nablus, one of the two agricultural schools in the Palestinian Authority territory. He had given Ollie the name of the addressee as Dr. Anwar El-Alami who was the dean of research at the institute. Ollie knew little about the relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) beyond the articles he had read in the popular press but was aware that slipping into the PA from Israel would not be difficult with the right contacts as thousands of Palestinians did this every day.