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    Pave Bolo: Target Iran
    Pave Bolo: Target Iran
    Pave Bolo: Target Iran
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    Pave Bolo: Target Iran

    By Stephen Austen

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    Iran is reeling. The Stuxnet computer virus is infecting its nuclear program. Iranian leaders are hungry for revenge. They stubbornly resist calls to halt their nuclear programs and plan a crushing cyber-strike against the United States. It’s time for PALADIN and his Onyx Ops team to derail Iran’s nuclear ambitions. They unleash one unique weapon with a Cold War legacy another from tommorrow.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Austen
    Release dateJun 10, 2011
    ISBN9781458112682
    Pave Bolo: Target Iran
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    Stephen Austen

    I was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and raised in New Orleans. But I truly grew-up as I travelled or lived in some thirty-four states. A Human Resources Manager, I now reside with my family in North Carolina. My writings and interests are eclectic. My latest series, The Paladin Papers, are fast-paced, fact-based military/techno thrillers. Based on today's events and often set in the near future, they offer thought-provoking entertainment. They will keep you thinking long after you put them down. I am certain you will enjoy reading these stories as much as I did writing them. . .

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      Pave Bolo - Stephen Austen

      The Paladin Papers

      Pave Bolo: Stuxnet Strike

      (prequel to 411: Cybergeddon)

      A Story By

      Stephen W. Austen

      Published by Stephen W. Austen at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Stephen W. Austen

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      The Paladin Papers

      Pave Bolo: Stuxnet Strike

      (Prequel to 411: Cybergeddon)

      A Story by

      Stephen W. Austen

      Prologue

      "Tehran, Sept. 26 -- Iran's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites throughout the country and is capable of taking over power plants, Iranian media reports said. . . The computer worm, dubbed Stuxnet, can take over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants." - Computer virus infects Iran's nuclear agency. The Hindustan Times. 2010.

      "The (Stuxnet) Trojan is activated whenever WinCC or PCS7 (SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software from Siemens is installed. . . .we are not dealing with the random development of one hacker, but with the product of a team of experts who must have IT expertise as well as specific know-how about industrial controls. . . Stuxnet is obviously targeting a specific process or a plant. . ." – Product Information Report, The Siemens Corporation. September 17, 2010.

      The Stuxnet spy worm has been created in line with the West's electronic warfare against Iran, the Iran Daily quoted Mahmoud Liayi, secretary of the Information Technology Council of the Industries Ministry." - 'State-sabotage' behind Iran virus., Aljazeera.net. 2010

      - One -

      Persepolis Citadel XIV

      Cyber Defense Command Center

      Near Natanz, Iran

      October, 2010

      The Sergeant-in-charge hastily assembled a makeshift honor guard at the entrance to the underground command center just as three armored Peugeot Pars state-owned cars rolled up. He barely glimpsed the man, covered by a protective security detail, who whisked though the main entrance.

      Inside, an elevator dropped the visitors’ six stories to the ground floor. The party pressed through the blast lock, decontamination area and past trophy cases of captured Iraqi and American military equipment. This entryway stopped at a juncture where the main corridor curved out of sight to the right and left, accessing the concentric rings of the bunker. Taking the left-hand passage Hirmond Pakdel, Executive Action Commissioner for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and National Security, walked into the office of Director of Cyber Security Ghodrat Kamali and sat down. Kamali, upstairs in the cafeteria, was promptly summoned.

      As Pakdel waited he studied the wedge-shaped room. Its back wall of thick concrete was gently concaved suggesting the circular nature of the massive bunker. He was a student of history and recalled an old Cold War story about the Shah of Iran.

      In the early 1960's, the Shah's military attachés' saw the original version of this sturdy bunker in New Orleans during a military exchange. The Shah

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