"Deals were not made to be broken," two men, one white, one black had been stripped to their underwear, beaten, and were reciting.  Under gunfire they were remembering what they'd been told to tell "the real nations".  The UN vehicle out front of the commandeered and occupied checkpoint had bullet holes in it before some strays hit it again.  "Just take them in," the sand rover's commander ordered. 

     Hundreds of thousands footprints in the sand had led the crime investigators to the location.