ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
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ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
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Killing Yahya Sinwar is Israel's biggest victory so far in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
His death is a serious blow for Hamas, the organisation he turned into a fighting force that inflicted the biggest defeat on the state of Israel in its history.
He was not killed in a planned special forces operation, but in a chance encounter with Israeli forces in Rafah in southern Gaza.
A photo taken at the scene shows Sinwar, dressed in combat gear, lying dead in the rubble of a building that was hit by a tank shell.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, praised the soldiers and made clear that however big a victory, it was not the end of the war.
"Today we made clear once again what happens to those who harm us. Today we once again showed the world the victory of good over evil.
"But the war, my dear ones, is not over yet. It is difficult, and it is costing us dearly."
"Great challenges still lie ahead of us. We need endurance, unity, courage, and steadfastness. Together we will fight, and with God's help - together we will win."
Netanyahu and the overwhelming proportion of Israelis who support the war in Gaza needed a victory.The prime minister has repeated his war aims many times - destroying Hamas as a military and political force and bringing the hostages home.
Neither has been achieved, despite a year of war that has killed at least 42,000 Palestinians and left much of Gaza in ruins.
But the remaining hostages are not free and Hamas is fighting and sometimes killing Israeli troops.
Killing Sinwar was the victory Israel wanted. But until Netanyahu can claim that the other war aims have been accomplished, the war, as he says, will go on.
Yahya Sinwar was born in 1962 in a refugee camp in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He was five years old when it was captured by Israel from Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war.
His family were among more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes by Israeli forces in the 1948 war in which Israel won its independence.
His family came from the town now known as Ashkelon, which is close to the northern border of the Gaza Strip.
In his 20s, he was convicted by Israel of killing four Palestinian informers. During 22 years in jail he learnt Hebrew, studied his enemy and believed that he worked out how to fight them. His time in jail also meant Israel had his dental records and a sample of his DNA, which meant that they could identify his body.
Sinwar was released as one of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners who were swapped in 2011 for a single Israel soldier, Gilad Shalit.
On 7 October last year, in a meticulously planned series of attacks, Sinwar and his men inflicted Israel's worst-ever defeat - and a collective trauma that is still deeply felt.
The killing of around 1,200 Israelis, the hostage-taking and the celebrations of their enemies recalled for many Israelis the Nazi holocaust.
Sinwar's own experience in a prisoner swap must have convinced him of the value and power of taking hostages.
In Tel Aviv families of the remaining 101 hostages in Gaza - Israel says half of them might already be dead - gathered in the square in which they have been gathering for a year, urging the Israeli government to launch a new negotiation to get their people home.
Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker appealed to the prime minister.
"Netanyahu, don't bury the hostages. Go out now to the mediators and to the public and lay out a new Israeli initiative."
"For my Matan and the rest of the hostages in the tunnels, time has run out. You have the victory pictures. Now bring a deal!"
"If Netanyahu doesn't use this moment and doesn't get up now to lay out a new Israeli initiative - even at the expense of ending the war - it means he has decided to abandon the hostages in an effort to prolong the war and fortify his rulership.
"We will not give up until everyone returns."Many Israelis believe that Netanyahu wants to prolong the war in Gaza to put off the day of reckoning for his share of the security failures that allowed Sinwar and his men to break into Israel, and to postpone perhaps indefinitely the resumption of his trial on serious corruption charges.
He denies those accusations, insisting that only what he calls 'total victory' in Gaza over Hamas will restore Israeli security.
Like other news organisations, Israel does not let the BBC cross into Gaza except on rare, supervised trips with the army.
In the ruins of Khan Yunis, the birthplace of Sinwar, Palestinians interviewed for the BBC by local trusted freelancers were defiant. They said the war would go on.
"This war is not dependent on Sinwar, Haniyeh, or Mishal, nor on any leader or official," said Dr Ramadan Faris.
"It's a war of extermination against the Palestinian people, as we all know and understand. The issue is much bigger than Sinwar or anyone else."
Adnan Ashour said some people were saddened, and others were indifferent about Sinwar.
"They're not just after us. They want the entire Middle East. They're fighting in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen... This is a war between us and the Jews since 1919, over 100 years."
He was asked whether the death of Sinwar would affect Hamas.
"I hope not, God willing. Let me explain: Hamas is not just Sinwar... It's the cause of a people."
The war goes on in Gaza. Twenty five Palestinians were killed in a raid on northern Gaza. Israel said it hit a Hamas command centre. Doctors at the local hospital said the scores of wounded that they treated were civilians.
Parachute drops of aid resumed after the Americans said Israel had to allow in more food and relief supplies.
Every leader of Hamas since the 1990s bar one has been killed by Israel, but there's always been a successor. As Israel celebrates killing Sinwar, Hamas still has its hostages and is still fighting.
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Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell privately criticised Donald Trump as "stupid", "ill-tempered", and "a despicable human being" after the 2020 election, according to excerpts from a new McConnell biography reported by the Associated Press (AP).
The Price of Power by Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of AP, is set to be released later this month and draws on personal oral histories made available to him by McConnell.
Despite the reported remarks, the Kentucky lawmaker, 82, has endorsed Trump for re-election.
There is no love lost between the two, who shared an uneasy relationship when the latter was in office.
McConnell harshly criticised Trump's denial of the 2020 election results and they did not speak after the US Capitol riot in January 2021. Trump went on to repeatedly savage McConnell online and his Taiwanese-born wife, Elaine Chao, who accused Trump of directing racist taunts at her.
But they appeared to mend ties this year, with McConnell - who is stepping down from his leadership post next month - saying he would support the Republican nominee. They shook hands in June at a meeting in the US Capitol.
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China's economy expanded in the third quarter at the slowest pace since early last year, as the country struggles to boost flagging growth.
On an annual basis, gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 4.6% in the three months to the end of September, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. That is less than the previous quarter and below the government's "around 5%" target for this year.
But it was slightly better than analysts expected, while other official figures released on Friday, including retail sales and factory output, also beat forecasts.
In recent weeks, Beijing has announced a number of measures aimed at supporting growth.
This is the second quarter in a row that China's official measure of economic growth has fallen below the 5% target, which will add to government concerns.
"The government’s growth target for this year now appears in serious jeopardy," the former head of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) China division, Eswar Prasad told BBC News.
"It will take a substantial stimulus-fuelled boost to growth in the fourth quarter to hit the target."
But Moody's Analytics' economist, Harry Murphy Cruise, was more optimistic. The stimulus measures are "likely to propel the economy to its around 5% target for the year", he said.
"But more is required if officials are to address the structural challenges in the economy."
Official figures also showed new home prices fell in September at the fastest pace in almost a decade, indicating that the downturn in the property sector is worsening."The property market unsurprisingly remains the biggest drag on China's growth," said Lynn Song, chief economist for greater China at banking giant ING.
"New investment is unlikely to see a substantive recovery until prices stabilise and housing inventories decline... until then property will remain a notable headwind to growth."
Earlier on Friday, China's central bank said it had held a meeting to call on banks and other financial institutions to boost lending to help support growth.
Last month, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced the country's biggest stimulus package since the pandemic, including large cuts to interest and mortgage rates.
The plans also included help for the flagging stock market and measures to encourage banks to lend more to businesses and individuals.
Since then, the Ministry of Finance and other government bodies have unveiled further plans aimed at boosting economic growth.
The world's second largest economy has been hit by a number of challenges, including a property crisis, as well as weak consumer and business confidence.
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Children as young as 10 can soon be jailed once again in Australia's Northern Territory (NT), after the government there lowered the age of criminal responsibility.
Australian states and territories have been under pressure to raise it, from 10 to 14, in line with other developed countries and UN advice.
Last year the NT became the first jurisdiction to lift the threshold to 12 years old, but the new Country Liberal Party (CLP) government elected in August has said a reversal is necessary to reduce youth crime rates.
It has argued that returning the age to 10 will ultimately protect children - despite doctors, human rights organisations and Indigenous groups disputing that logic.
They cite evidence that the laws will not reduce crime and will disproportionately affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
The NT already jails children at a rate 11 times higher than any other jurisdiction in the country, and almost all of them are Aboriginal.
Many places across Australia have declared they are in the grips of a youth crime crisis, and a string of violent incidents this year have prompted a series of youth curfews in the NT city of Alice Springs.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said her government had been given a mandate after their landslide election victory, and that the change would allow courts to put young offenders through programmes designed to address the root causes of their crimes - which, according to statistics, are most commonly break-in and assault offences.
"We have this obligation to the child who has been let down in a number of ways, over a long period of time," she told the parliament on Thursday.
"And we have [an obligation to] the people who just want to be safe, people who don't want to live in fear anymore."
The NT government has also tightened bail rules, and introduced penalties for "posting and boasting" about crime on social media.
"We make no apologies for delivering on our commitments to reduce crime for all Territorians," Finocchiaro added.
However, research both globally and in Australia has shown that incarcerating children makes them more likely to reoffend and often has dire impacts on their health, education, and employment.
Earlier this year a report by the Australian Human Rights Commission - an independent federal agency - found policy across the nation was being driven “by populist ‘tough on crime’ rhetoric” and that governments should instead reinvest the money spent on jailing children into support services.
Opposition Leader Selena Uibo - the first and only Aboriginal woman to head a major party in Australia - said it was a "dark day" for the territory.
"We know - because all of the evidence tells us this - that the earlier a child comes into contact with the criminal justice system, the more prolonged their involvement is likely to be," she said.
"We want to see children held accountable for bad behaviour but then supported to get on a better path."
The change will come into effect at a later date that is yet to be confirmed.As the NT parliament debated the bill this week, around 100 people gathered outside to protest, some carrying placards. One read, "10-year-olds still have baby teeth". Another said, "What if it was your child?".
Independent MP Yingiya Guyula, a Yolŋu man from northeastern Arnhem Land, told the BBC it was a “racist” bill.
"It's [targeted] at Indigenous people."
"It is just colonisation - somebody else is making decisions for us in the community when they should be listening to our people."
The NT's children's commissioner Shahleena Musk, a Larrakia woman from Darwin, told the BBC Aboriginal children were less likely to be cautioned, more likely to be charged and pursued through the courts, and more likely to be remanded in custody than non-Aboriginal offenders.
“I accept that people are fearful in our communities, and crime has been quite prominent in the media and social media,” she said.
“[But] we shouldn't be seeing these kids going into a youth justice system which is harmful, ineffective, and only compounds the very issues we're trying to change.”
Defending the bill, CLP politician and former youth worker Clinton Howe told the parliament the prospect of jail was the only punishment youth offenders cared about.
“I believe government is a blunt instrument, and I don’t like it as a tool for social intervention, but for some of these children, it is the only thing left.
"We must intervene early for the sake of the child... in the environment they live in, no-one else cares."
Critics of the bill fear the laws could arrest momentum for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility in other states and territories.
Only the Australian Capital Territory has raised the age of criminal responsibility above 10, but Victoria has passed legislation to do so, which will come into effect next year. The Tasmanian government has said it will raise the age to 14 by 2029.
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Winston Churchill's aristocratic daughter-in-law and confidante Pamela Harriman is considered "the greatest courtesan of her era". Decades after her death, she still divides opinion – was she a smart power player, or "shameless" and "repellent"?
You could call her by her six names: Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman – a British aristocrat who ended up a Washington power player and the US ambassador to France, having touched many famous lives in 20th-Century politics and culture. When she was just 20, her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as "his most willing and committed secret weapon" (as a new biography puts it) and during World War Two she wined, dined and seduced important Americans, winning them over to the British cause against the Nazis. And later, her impact extended further, as she interacted with public figures including the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela and Truman Capote – who eventually satirised her in his fiction, alongside his other "swans". More than 27 years have passed since Pamela Harriman suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage while swimming in the pool at Paris's Ritz Hotel, yet she remains a divisive character, as evidenced by the varied reactions to Sonia Purnell's new biography, Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue. To some, the book reads as an appreciation of an influential life lived boldly, cannily and ambitiously in Britain, elsewhere in Europe, and the US. Others find it unduly praising of a woman who used sex to advance herself and whose political impact, they say, is overstated.
Born to a cash-strapped baron in 1920, and bred to "marry well", Pamela failed to find a husband during her first London "season" in 1938. Nancy Mitford, the most sharp-tongued of the famous Mitford sisters, described the teenage Pam as a "red-headed bouncing little thing". The following year, Randolph Churchill, only son of the famous Winston, telephoned her to ask for a date. Convinced he'd be killed in the war which had just been declared, Randolph was anxious to have a son. Over dinner with Pamela, he came quickly to the point. Purnell writes: "He didn't love her... but she looked healthy enough to bear his child." Pamela, eager to escape a deathly-dull life with her parents in deepest Dorset, took the deal.Her gamble paid off, although not in conjugal bliss. Randolph, a drunk and a troublemaker, treated her contemptuously before and after she gave birth to baby Winston. But once her father-in-law became prime minister in May 1940, Pamela landed in the room where everything happened. "Nobody ever had a chance to see politics as much from the inside as I did," she said later.
Britain at that time stood alone against the Nazi war machine, and Churchill urgently needed transatlantic aid, which was not immediately forthcoming. After the fall of Paris, polling revealed that the US electorate was even less keen than before to join the Allied cause.Pamela knew the stakes. "If and when America came into the war, then the war would be safe. As long as they weren't in the war, it was precarious," she later recalled. Churchill doted on his cheerful, dewy-skinned daughter-in-law. He negotiated that a winsome portrait of Pamela with her infant son (taken by Cecil Beaton, the royals' favourite photographer) grace the cover of Life, then the US's largest-circulation magazine. He also had his ally Lord Beaverbrook fund a new wardrobe for her. She flattered the first envoy who Roosevelt sent to Britain, Harry Hopkins, who found her "delicious". And when wealthy Averell Harriman came to London in March 1941 to administer the aid program, the lifeline Churchill so desperately needed, Pamela made a point of getting to know him.
After Pamela, then 21, embarked on an affair with the married Harriman, 49, the Prime Minister, eager to learn what Harriman was saying and doing, would debrief Pamela over late-night two-handed card games. Reviewing Kingmaker for The Times, Roger Lewis dismisses the idea that Pamela fed her father-in-law vital intelligence, and describes her as a "a mercenary sex obsessive". Frank Costigliola, professor of history at the University of Connecticut and author of Roosevelt's Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War, tells the BBC: "Pamela was a tremendous asset to Churchill given the importance of information in wartime. To think otherwise is to be ignorant of the history, and smacks of misogyny."Purnell doesn't dispute Harriman's sexual exploits, recalling in Kingmaker how she became known as "the greatest courtesan of her era". Journalist Harrison Salisbury famously recalled that during World War Two in London, "sex hung in the air like a fog". So Pamela was hardly unusual in falling into bed with a new partner, though she was probably an outlier in the frequency with which it happened. The (partial) list of her lovers included Edward R Murrow, the CBS broadcaster ("This is London"), Major General Fred Anderson, commander of the American bombing force, Colonel Jock Whitney, intelligence officer with the OSS, and Murrow's CBS boss Bill Paley, who was on General Dwight D Eisenhower's staff.
What information Pamela passed on to Churchill – or what he requested she tell the powerful Americans with whom she was intimate – remains unknown, but, Purnell writes: "Her pillow talk was reaching the ears of leaders and influencing high-level policy on both sides of the Atlantic." In his review, Lewis brands this as "hyperbole", although it is notable that when Randolph Churchill eventually learned of his wife's adultery with Harriman, he berated his parents for their complicity.
American dream
Divorced after the war, Pamela decamped to Paris, and became part of a cosmopolitan set, having affairs with a roster of rich men, including Prince Aly Khan, Gianni Agnelli and Élie de Rothschild. These paramours financed her luxurious lifestyle, but none would put a ring on her finger. Approaching 40, she convinced Leland Hayward, a successful Broadway and Hollywood producer, to leave his glamorous wife Nancy – nicknamed "Slim" – for her.
Seriously rich, seriously beautiful, and seriously elegant, these society ladies loved Capote, and relied on him as an escort and confidant
Both Pamela Hayward, as she was then called, and Lady Slim Keith – now married to British banker and aristocrat Kenneth Keith – counted among "the intercontinental covey of swans" first described by writer Truman Capote in an October 1959 issue of Harper's Bazaar. Seriously rich, seriously beautiful, and seriously elegant, these society ladies loved Capote, and relied on him as an escort and confidant – until he went public with their secrets.Laurence Leamer, author of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal and a Swan Song for an Era, upon which the FX TV show Feud: Capote vs the Swans is based, calls Pamela "a black swan", in part because she was a figure of suspicion in her crowd. "He knew she could be shameless, to get and keep a man," Leamer tells the BBC. "But she was also interesting, charming, and she turned out to be a terrific wife."
Hayward's career and health declined precipitously in the decade after he married Pamela, but she remained loyal. Even Brooke Hayward, Pamela's step-daughter, who in her best-selling memoir Haywire accused Pamela of absconding with some family jewellery (along with other misdemeanours) acknowledged this. "Pamela had a great gift: she understood the men she loved. That was where she began and ended; it was the only life she had," Hayward wrote.
After Leland's death, in spring 1971, Pamela's journalist neighbour Lally Weymouth saw that she was "miserable". Her mother, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, was throwing a party, and Weymouth urged Pamela to attend in her place. There, Pamela encountered Averell Harriman again. He had been widowed the year before, and the two former lovers promptly rekindled their relationship, marrying a few months later. "It became Washington folklore that Pamela had lobbied for the invitation as a ruse to meet Averell," Purnell writes. "As so often, the rumours about Pamela were salacious enough for many not to worry whether they were true."The new Mrs Harriman endured something of a humiliation when Capote's short story La Côte Basque 1965 appeared in Esquire magazine in 1975, with the heartless Lady Ina Coolbirth – a composite figure, elements of whom resembled Harriman – at its centre. But during the final two decades of her life, Pamela became a power player in Washington. Backed by the Harriman millions, she began funding and championing candidates of the Democratic party after Republican Ronald Reagan won a landslide presidential election in 1980. Among her favourites: two future presidents, Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, and Bill Clinton, then the governor of Arkansas.
This robust third act culminated in her appointment as ambassador to France by a grateful Clinton. And while a faithful and attentive wife to the ageing Harriman, Pamela was still labelled by Ben Bradlee, longtime editor of The Washington Post, as someone whose politics were "between her legs", writes Purnell in her book. Thomas Mallon, a historical novelist and essayist, reviewing Kingmaker for The Washington Post, wrote that the book did not "cope with the peculiar deadness inside such an apparently vital subject, one whose remorseless, mechanical nature still renders her, even at this long remove, more repellent than fascinating".
Purnell feels her book's sometimes hostile reception has meant her experiencing "a tiny fraction of what Pamela went through", she tells the . And after reading her papers and letters, now kept at the Library of Congress, Purnell came to like her subject more and more.Perhaps Pamela's life is a kind of Rorschach test. How does the enduring double standard strike you? As Leamer points out: "It's still true: If you sleep with a lot of people and you're a woman you're a 'slut', but if you're a man you're a 'stud'." And on what terms should you judge a woman from another era? Pamela was clearly attracted to power from an early age and, meagerly educated as she was, there was little opportunity then to pursue it on her own.
Pamela's own self-assessment is revealing. Speaking to Michael Gross in New York Magazine in 1992, and later quoted in The New York Times, she said: "Basically, I'm a backroom girl. I've always said this and I've always believed it. I prefer to push and shove other people. I don't really like to be put forward myself. I was very happy to be the wife of the two husbands I loved."
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I'm in one of the world's volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano.
A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano's crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away.
Krafla has erupted around 30 times in the last 1,000 years, and most recently in the mid-1980s.
Bjorn Por Guðmundsson leads me to a grassy hillside. He is running a team of international scientists who plan to drill into Krafla's magma.
“We’re standing on the spot where we are going to drill,” he says.
The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) intends to advance the understanding of how magma, or molten rock, behaves underground.
That knowledge could help scientists forecast the risk of eruptions and push geothermal energy to new frontiers, by tapping into an extremely hot and potentially limitless source of volcano power.Starting in 2026 the KMT team will begin drilling the first of two boreholes to create a unique underground magma observatory, around 2.1km (1.3 miles) under the ground.
“It's like our moonshot. It's going to transform a lot of things,” says Yan Lavelle, a professor of vulcanology at the Ludvigs-Maximllian University in Munich, and who heads KMT’s science committee.
Volcanic activity is usually monitored by tools like seismometers. But unlike lava on the surface, we don’t know very much about the magma below ground, explains Prof Lavelle.
“We'd like to instrument the magma so we can really listen to the pulse of the earth,” he adds.
Pressure and temperature sensors will be placed into the molten rock. “These are the two key parameters we need to probe, to be able to tell ahead of time what's happening to the magma," he says.
Around the world an estimated 800 million people live within 100km of hazardous active volcanoes. The researchers hope their work can help save lives and money.
Iceland has 33 active volcano systems, and sits on the rift where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates pull apart.
Most recently, a wave of eight eruptions in the Reykanes peninsula has damaged infrastructure and upended lives in the community of Grindavik.
Mr Guðmundsson also points to Eyjafjallajökull, which caused havoc in 2010 when an ash cloud caused over 100,000 flight cancellations, costing £3bn ($3.95bn).
“If we’d been better able to predict that eruption, it could have saved a lot of money,” he says.KMT’s second borehole will develop a test-bed for a new generation of geothermal power stations, which exploit magma's extreme temperature.
“Magma are extremely energetic. They are the heat source that power the hydrothermal systems that leads to geothermal energy. Why not go to the source?” asks Prof Lavelle.
Some 65% of Iceland’s electricity and 85% of household heating, comes from geothermal, which taps hot fluids deep underground, as a source of heat to drive turbines and generate electricity.
In the valley below, the Krafla power plant supplies hot water and electricity to about 30,000 homes.
“The plan is to drill just short of the magma itself, possibly poke it a little bit,” says Bjarni Pálsson with a wry smile.
"The geothermal resource is located just above the magma body, and we believe that is around 500-600C,” says Mr Pálsson, the executive director of geothermal development at national power provider, Landsvirkjun.
Magma is very hard to locate underground, but in 2009 Icelandic engineers made a chance discovery.
They had planned to make a 4.5km deep borehole and extract extremely hot fluids, but the drill abruptly stopped as it intercepted surprisingly shallow magma.
“We were absolutely not expecting to hit magma at only 2.1km depth,” says Mr Pálsson.
Encountering magma is rare and has only happened here, Kenya and Hawaii.
Superheated steam measuring a recording-breaking 452°C shot up, while the chamber was an estimated 900°C.
Dramatic video shows billowing smoke and steam. Acute heat and corrosion eventually destroyed the well.
“This well produced about 10 times more [energy] than the average well in this location,” says Mr Pálsson.
Just two of these could supply the same energy as the power plant’s 22 wells, he notes. “There is an obvious game changer.”More than 600 geothermal power plants are found worldwide, and hundreds more are planned, amid growing demand for round-the-clock low carbon energy. These wells are typically around 2.5km deep, and handle temperatures below 350°C.
Private companies and research teams in several countries are also working towards more advanced and ultra-deep geothermal, called super-hot rock, where temperatures exceed 400°C at depths of 5 to 15km.
Reaching deeper and much hotter, heat reserves is the "Holy Grail", says Rosalind Archer, the dean of Griffith University, and former director of the Geothermal Institute in New Zealand.
It’s the higher energy density that’s so promising, she explains, as each borehole can produce five to 10 times more power than standard geothermal wells.
“You've got New Zealand, Japan and Mexico all looking, but KMT is the closest one to getting drill bit in the ground,” she says. “It's not easy and it's not necessarily cheap to get started.”Drilling into this extreme environment will be technically challenging, and requires special materials.
Prof Lavelle is confident it’s possible. Extreme temperatures are also found in jet engines, metallurgy and the nuclear industry, he says.
“We have to explore new materials and more corrosion resistant alloys,” says Sigrun Nanna Karlsdottir, a professor of industrial and mechanical engineering at the University of Iceland.
Inside a lab, her team of researchers are testing materials to withstand extreme heat, pressure and corrosive gases. Geothermal wells are usually constructed with carbon steel, she explains, but that quickly loses strength when temperatures exceed 200°C.
“We’re focusing on high grade nickel alloys and also titanium alloys,” she says.
Drilling into volcanic magma sounds potentially risky, but Mr Guðmundsson thinks otherwise.
“We don’t believe that sticking a needle into a huge magma chamber is going to create an explosive effect,” he asserts.
“This happened in 2009, and they found out that they’d probably done this before without even knowing it. We believe it’s safe.”
Other risks also need to be considered when drilling into the earth like toxic gases and causing earthquakes, says Prof Archer. “But the geological environment in Iceland makes that very unlikely.”
The work will take years, but could bring advanced forecasting and supercharged volcano power.
“I think the whole geothermal world are watching the KMT project,” says Prof Archer. “It is potentially quite transformative.”
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በወንዙ እየተወሰዱ ህይወታቸውን አጥተዋል፡፡ ፓተርሰንንም ቢሆን ለጥቂት ያዳነው ዎከር ነበረ፡፡ ከዚያም በፊት ቢሆን ፓተርሰንን ከሞት አደጋ አስጥሎታል፡፡ ከላዩ ቆሞ በሳንጃ ሆዱን ሊዘረግፈው የነበረውን የጀርመን
ወታደር ምክር በጥይት መትቶ ጥሎለታል፡፡ ስለዚህም ፓተርሰንና ምከር እንደ ታላቅና ታናሽ ወንድም ነበረ የሚተያዩት።
የአሜሪካ ጦር በአንዳንድ አቅጣጫ ወደፊት ቢገፋም በዚያኑ መጠን አልፎ አልፎም ሽንፈት ደርሶበታል፡፡ በኔቱኖና ኣንዚዎ የመሸገውን የጀርመን ጦር መሥመር ለመስበር ተደጋግሞ ተሞክሮ ባለመሳካቱ የነበረው አማራጭ በተራራማዋ በካሲኖ መንደር በኩል ማጥቃት ብቻ ሆነ፡፡ ለዚህም ተግባር የተመረጠው አነዎከር የነበሩበት ክፍለ ጦር ነበር፣፣ ጦርነቱም ገና ከመጀመሩ ፓተርሰን ቆሰለ፡፡ በግንባር ይዋጋ የነበረው ዎከር የጓደኛውን ካጐኑ መለየት እንዳጤነ ወደ ኋላው ተመሰሰ፡፡ የፓተርሰን ደረት በደም ተጨመላልቆ ዓይኖቹም ተከድነው አየ፡፡ ምከርም የሞተ መስሎት ከደረቱ ላይ ተደፍቶ የልብ ትርታውን ሲያዳምጥ ትንፋሹ እንዳለ ኣረጋገጠ፡፡ ከዚያም ተሸክሞት በደጀን ወደ ነበረው የሕክምና ቡድን ካደረሰው በኋላ ወደ ጦር ግንባሩ ተመለሰ፡፡
የካሲኖን መንደር ስመያዝ ብዙ ሳምንታት የፈጀ ውጊያ ተካሄዷል፡፡ መንደሯም እንዳልነበረች ሆናለች፡፡ በመጨረሻውም ቀን ፍልሚያው በመንደሯ ላይ ያላቋረጠ የመድፍ ውርጂብኝ ስለ ዘነበባት፣ ለስዓታት ጥቅጥቅ ያለ ጨለማ አላብሷት ለዓይን ተሰውራ ነበር፡፡ የመንደሯ እምብርት የነበረው ግዙፉ የካሲኖ ገዳም የዐመድ ክምር መሆኑ የታየውም ጭሱ እየገፈፈ ሲሄድ ነው፣ ከካሲኖ ጦርነት በኋላ የጀርመኖች ቅስም ተሰበረ፡፡ አልፎ አልፎ ከነበሩት መለስተኛ ግጭቶች በስተቀር ከእንግዲህ ወደ ሮም የሚወስደው ጐዳና ክፍት ሆነ፡፡
በኔፕልስና በሮም መካከል በተካሄዱት ጦርነቶች እልፍ አዕላፍ ወታደሮች ከሁለቱም ወገን ተሰውተዋል፡፡ በካሲኖ ጦርነት ላይ የሞቱት ብቻ ከሃምሳ ሺህ በላይ ነበሩ፡፡ ፓተርሰን የቆሰለው ክክንዱ ላይ ስለነበረ አነዎከር ሮም ከመግባታቸው በፊት ከጦሩ ጋር ተደባለቀ፡፡ ሳያቋርጥ በሚዘንበው ዶፍ ውስጥ እንደ ህፃን በአንብርክኩ እየተንፏቀቀ የተዋጋው የአሜሪካ ጦር ከሰባት ወራት በኋላ ከሮም ከተማ ግባ፣ በቬኒስ አደባባይ ላይ በተደረገውም ወታደራዊ ሰልፍ ዎከርና ፓተርሰን ጐን ለጐን ተሰልፈው ነበረ፡፡ የከተማውም ህዝብ በነቂስ ወጥቶ ለድል አድራጊው ጦር ያለውን የጋለ ፍቅር በጭብጨባና በዝማፊ ገለፀ፡፡ ጦሩ የሚያልፍባቸው ጐዳናዎችምበአበባ ተሸፍነው ነበረ፡፡ ዘፈኑና ጭፈራው፤ ሳቅና ፈንጠዝያው በሮም ከተማ ውስጥ ታይቶም ተሰምቶም አይታወቅም፡፡ ያንን የመሰለ አቀባበል ያልጠበቀው ሥከር ልዩ ደስታ ተሰማው፡፡ ከደስታውም ብዛት የተነሳ
እንባው በጉንጮቹ ላይ ፈሰሰ፡፡
በሮም ውስጥ ለሶስት ሳምንታት ያህል ቆዩ። በተለይም ምሽቶቹ የሳቅ፣ የጫዋታ፣ የዘፈን፤ የፍቅር ምሽቶች ነበሩ፡፡ ፓተርስን ሮምን ከጦርነቱ በፊት ጐብኝቶ ስለነበረ፣ ምክርን አያዞረ አንድ በአንድ አሳይቶታል፡፡ ቀን ቀን ታሪካዊ ቦታዎችን ማታ ማታ በከተማው ውስጥ አሉ የሚባሉትን የምሽት ክበቦች ሲያስሉ ከረሙ፡፡ በሰሜን አፍሪካ በረሃ እንዳልተደበደቡና ለወራት በቀበሮ ጉድጓድ ውስጥ ያልከረሙትን ያህል አሁን በሮማ ሆቴሎች ውስጥ ተምነሸነሹ፣፣ የጦርነቱ ጠባሳ ከከተማዋ ላይ ሙሉ በሙሉ ተገፏል ለማለት ባይቻልም የሮም ኮረዳዎች የከተማዋን የምሽት ህይወት አንደ ቀድሞው ነፍስ ዘሩበት፣ የምከር ወሲባዊ ፍላጐት ቁጥብ ቢሆንም ፓተርሰን
ግን እንደ ኒወዯርኩ ሲዝናና ከረመ፡፡
እንደነገ ከሮም ሊንቀሳቀስ ሲሉ ማምሻውን የጉዟቸው አቅጣጫ ታወቀ። ብዙዎቹም ፈርተውት እንደነበረ ሳይሆን ከፓሪስ በስተደቡብ ምስራቅ ከሰፈረው ከጄኔራል ብራድሲ ጦር ጋር እንዲደባለቁ መታዘዛቸው ተሰማ፣፣ የፓሪስን ከተማ ከጀርመን ይዞታ ስር ነፃ ለማውጣት ዘመቻው ቀጠለ፡፡ በነሐሴም ወር ማብቂያ ላይ ፓሪስ በቃል ኪዳን መንግስታት ጦር ኃይሎች ነፃ ወጣች፡፡ የፓሪስ ከተማ ህዝብ ግን አንደ ሮም ከተማ ነዋሪዎች ነፃ አውጪውን የጦር ኃይል በጭፈራና በጭብጨባ አልተቀበለውም፡፡ ከብረት በጠነከረው የጀርመኖች ክንድ ለአራት ዓመታት ያህል ሲቀጠቀጥ የቆየው የፓሪስ ነዋሪ ሕዝብ ወኔው ተኩላሽቶ ሐሞቱም ፈሶ ነበረ። ጀርመኖችም በእርግጥ ተሸንፈው እጃቸውን በሰላም ይሰጣሉ የሚል ግምትም በነዋሪው ሕዝብ ዘንድ አልታለመም። ፓሪሰን ለመከላከል ጀርመኖች ያደረጉት ዝግጅት ከፍተኛ ነበረ፡፡ በመሆኑም ለሕዝብም የሚታየው ከተማዋ ከዛሬ ነገ ከሰማይ በአውሮፕላን፣ ከምድር በመድፍና
በአዳፍኔ ስትደበደብ፣ ውብና ታሪካዊ ሕንፃዎቿ ተደርምሰው ሰፋፊ ጐዳናዎቿ ታርሰው ፓሪስ በእሳት ስትጋይ፤ ልጆቿም የእሳት ራት ሆነው ሲቀሩ ነበረ። ግን እንደተፈራው ሳይሆን ቀረና ፓሪስ በስላም ተያዘች። ሕዝቡም ውሎ ባደረ መጠን የመኖር ተስፋው እየጎመጎመ ሔደ።
ፓሪስ በተያዘች በአራተኛው ቀን የቃል ኪዳን መንግስታት ጦር
ታላቅ ወታደራዊ ሰልፍ አሳየ፡፡ እንደ በፊቱ ሳይሆን በዚያን ቀን የከተማውሕዝብ ከየቤቱ ወጣ፡፡ የፓሪስን አውራ ጐዳናዎች አጣበባቸው፣ ሰልፈኛ ውም የሚያልፍባቸውን መንገዶች ልዩ መዓዛ ባላቸው አበባዎች ሸፈናቸው፡፡ የሕዝበ- ሆታና ጭብጨባም የከተማዋን አየር ሰነጠቀው። ዎከር በወታደራዊ ሰልፍ ላይ ሆኖ በዚያን ቀን ለሁለተኛ ጊዜ አለቀሰ፡፡ ለዚያም ለአበቃው አምላኩ በሆዱ ምስጋና አቀረበ፡፡ የከተሞች ንግስት የምትባለው ፓሪስ ነፃ ከወጣች ከእንግዲህ የተቀረው ጦርነት ለዎከር ያን ያህልም ትርጉም የሚስጠው አልነበረም፡፡ የታየው ነገር ቢኖር ጦርነቱ በቅርብ ቀናት ውሰጥ ተፈፅሞ እርሱም ወደ አሜሪካ ሲመለስና የሐርቫርድ ዮኒቨርሲቲ ትምህርቱን ሲያጠናቅቅ፣ ከዚያም አንደርሱው የሐርቫርድ ምሩቅ የሆነችውን አንዷን ልጃገረድ አግብቶ የሞቀ ትዳር ሲመሰርት ነበረ።
ከስዓት በኋላ የዕረፍት ጊዜያቸው ስለነበረ፣ፓተርስንና ዎከር በኖትረዳም ካቴድራል የሚካሄደውን የቅዳሴ ሥነ ሥርዓት ሲከታተሉ ቆዩ፡፡ ከዚያም በዱአርኰል ጐዳና የሚገኙትን ሰቆች እያዩ ቀስ ብሰው ቁልቁል ወረዱ፡፡ ከመንገዱም ጫፍ ላይ ከነበረች አንዲት ትንሽ መናፈሻ ቤት ጐራ ብሰው ቡና አዘዘ፡፡ እንደ ማንኛውም ጊዜ ሁሉ አሁንም የቀረበላቸው ስኳር የሌለው መራራ ቡና ነበረ፡፡ የቤቱ ባለቤት የነበረችው ሴት ወይዘሮ ግን ለመስተንግዷቸው ሳህን ሙሉ ጣፋጭ ብስኩቶች አቀረበችላቸው። ብስኩታቸውንም እየበሉ ወደ ሀገራቸው ስለሚመስሉበት ጊዜ መቃረብና ስለወደፊቱ ዕድላቸውም ብዙ ተወያዩ፡፡ ሰመሔድም ሲነሱ የቡናውን ዋጋ ለመክፈል ሞክረው ነበረ፡፡ ግን ሴትየዋ አልቀበልም አለች፡፡ ፓተርሰን በመጠኑም ፈረንሳይኛ ይናገር ስለነበረ ምስጋናውን ገለፀላት፡፡ ምከር ግን ተጠግቶ ጉንጯጯን ሳማት፡፡ እርሷም ደስ ብሏት ሳቀች። የምግብ እጥረት በነበረበት በዚያን ወቅት የሴትየዋ ልግስና ቀላል አልነበረም።
ልክ ከበራፉ እንደ ወጡም ዎከር ብራቅ እንደመታው ስው ባሰበት ድርቅ ብሎ ቀረ፣፣ ዓይኖቹም በአጠገባቸው ባለፈችው ልጃገረድ ላይ እንደተተከሉ ነበሩ፡፡ የዎከርን መሰዋወጥ ያልተገነዘበው ፓተርስን እንሒድ እንጂ ሲል በክንዱ ጐሽም አደረገው፡፡ ዎከር ግን ከቆመበት አልተንቀሳቀስም፡፡ በመንፈስም የተሰረፀበት አንድ ስሜት በመኖሩ በዓይኖች ልጅቱን ተከተላት፡፡ ጉንጉን የተሰራው ወርቃማ ፀጉሯ በብራኳዎቿ መካከል አልፎ ወርዷል፡፡ የለበሰችው ስማያዊ እጅጌ ጉርድ ቀሚስ ያረጀ ቢሆንም ሸንቃጣ ቅርጿን ውጦ አላስቀረውም፡፡ ልጅቱም በዙሪያዋ ላሰው ነገር ሁሉ ደንታ ስላልነበራት የምትራመደው በተቃና አንገት አጣጣልየፊት ለፊቷን እያየች እንጂ ዓይኖቿ ግራና ቀኙን አይቀላውጡም፡፡ የፓሪስ ነፃ መወጣት አለመውጣት የፓሪስ መንገዶች በጀርመኖችም ሆነ በቃል ኪዳን መንግስታት ወታደሮች መያዝ ለርሷ ልዩነት ያለው አትመስልም፡፡ የዎከር ዓይኖቹ ሰበር እያሉ ወደ ዳሌዋና ባቶቿ ተመለከቱ፡፡ ከዚያም በአፉ የሞላውን ምራቁን ገርገጭ አድርጐ ዋጠና ልጅቱን ሲከተላት እግሮቹን አንቀሳቀሰ፡፡
“ወዴት ልትሔድ ነው ሳም? ምን ነካህ? አሰና ፖተርሰን ከኋላው
ደርሶ አንዱን ይዞ ሊያስቆመው ሞከረ፡፡
ሥከር ግን ከንዱን አስስቅቆ ልጅቱን ተከተላት። አሁንም ዓይኖቹ ከበስተኋላዋ በሚያየው ወርቃማ ፀጉርና ሽንቅጥ ቅርጿ ላይ እንደ ተተከሉ ናቸው፡፡ ግራ የተጋባው ፓተርሰንም በተራው ጓደኛውን ተከተለ፡፡ ከእግረኞች ማቋረጫው ጋ ስትደርስ ቆም አለችና በግራና በቀኝ የሚበሩትን መኪናዎች አሳልፋ አቋረጠች፡- በስዬን ወንዝ ላይ የነበረውን ድልድይ ከተሻገረች በኋላም ወደ ሞንትቤል አውራ ጐዳና ታጥፋ በዚያው ባረማመዷ መንገዷን ቀጠለች
“ምን ነካህ ዎከር! ኣበድከ አንዴ! ወዴት ነው የምትሄደው? አሰው ከጐኑ ጐኑ ይራመድ የነበረው ፓተርሰን፡፡
ዎከር ቆሞ ፓተርሰንን አየት አደረገውና ቶሎ ሲል ከዓይኖቹ እንዳትሰወርበት ስለፈራ ወደ ልጅቷ ተመለሰ፡፡ ለፓተርሰንም መልስ ሳይሰጠው የእርምጃውን ፍጥነት ጨመረ፣ ፓተርሰንም ልጅቱን ያያት በዚያን ጊዜ ነበረ፡፡ እንደ አጋጣሚ ገልመጥ ብላ ስለነበረ መልኳን ለማጤን ዕድል አገኘ፡፡ ውበቷ ዓለማዊ አይመስልም ነበረ፡፡ ቁንጅናዋንም ልዩና ፍፁም የሚያደርገው ደግሞ አንድ የተለየ ፀጋ ነበራት፡፡ አረን ጓዴዎቹ ትላልቅ ዓይኖቿ የብርሃን ጨረር የሚወረውሩ ይመስሉ ነበሩ፡፡ ለሰኮንድ ፍንካችም ቢሆን እነኛ ዓይኖች በዎከር ላይ ማረፋቸውን ፓተርሰን ተመልክቷል፡፡ ክብርህን ጠብቅ! የሚል ማስጠንቀቂያ የሚያስተላልፉ ነበሩ፡፡
ዎከር ፈረንሳይኛ ለመናገር ባለመቻሉ ለመጀመሪያ ጊዜ ራሱን የረገመው በዚያን ቀን ነው፡፡ የልጅቱም ግልምጫ እንደ እሳት የሚለበ ልብ ነበረ፡፡ ያም ሆኖ ልጅቱን የመከታተል ስሜቱ ይበልጥ ጠነከረ፡፡ ወደ ፊት ለፊቱም እያየ ይቺን የመሰለች ልጅ አይተህ ታውቃለህ? አለው ፓተርሰንን፡፡ መልስም ሳይጠብቅ በዓለም ውስጥ ተወዳዳሪየማይገኝላት ውብ ናት ሲል ዎከር በተጨማሪ ተናገረ፡፡ በእርግጥም ያቺ ልጅ እንደ ሌሎቹ የፓሪስ ልጃገረዶች ፖሪስን ነፃ ባወጡት የቃል ኪዳን መንግስታት ወታደሮች ላይ ከመንገድ ዳር ቆማ አበባ የምትበትን ዓይነት አልነበረችም፡፡ እንደ ሌሎቹም ከወታደሮቹ አንገት ተጠምጥማ ደስታዋን የምትገልፅ ልጅ አይደለችም:: ሁለመናዋ ፀዳል የሚያንፀባርቅ፤ ቀንበጥ ገላ ያላትና ሱሩት የምትማርክ ልጅ ነበረች፡፡ በጀርመን አገዛዝ ሥር ያሳለፈቻቸው እነኛ አራት የግፍ ዓመታት እንኳን እንደ ሌሎቹ ቅስሟን አልሰበሩትም፡፡ እንደ ሌሎችም አንገቷን አላስደፏትም፡፡ በመሆኑም በማንም ሆነ በማን የምትደፈር ዓይነት ልጅ አልነበረችም፡፡
እንዳልከሁ በጣም ቆንጆ ናት፡፡ ግን አስተያየቷ ስላላማረኝ ብንመለስ ይሻል ይመስልሀል ሲል ፓተርሰን አለሳልሶ ተናገረ፡፡ እንመለስ አለና ዎከር ጮኸበት ይልቁኑስ በምታውቀው ቋንቋ የሆነ ነገር አናግራት
እኔስ አላበድኩም ጌታዬ! ይልቁኑ በቤና ወደ መጣንበት ብንመለስ ይሻላል ሲል ፓተርሰን ልጅቱ ከአንድ ሱቅ ገባች፡ ዎከርም ከበራፉ አጠገብ ሄደና ቆሙ፡፡
“ኧረ ተው እንሒድ ዎከር፣፣ ምንም ጥቅም ላናገኝ ለምን ጊዜያችንን በከንቱ እናባክናለን? ሲል ፓተርሰን ተለማመጠው፡፡
ምክር ግን ለምን ቡና አንጋብዛትም የሚል መልስ ነበረ የሰጠሁ፡፡ ልጅቱ በወረቀት የተጠቀለለ ዳቦ ይዛ ወጣች፡፡ ዘወር ስትልም እነ ዎከርን አየቻቸው፡፡ እርሷን አንደሚከታተሏት ይበልጥ ተጠራጠረች፡፡ ሆኖም ዝም አለችና መንገዷን ቀጠለች፡፡ እነ ዎከርም ተከታተሏት፣ ከሌላም ሱቅ ስትደርስ አሁንም ገባች። ዎከርም ከበራፉ አጠገብ እንደ በፊቱ ቆመ። ፓተርሰንም እንሂድ እያለ እንደ ጨቀጨቀው ነበረ።
ለሁለተኛ ጊዜ ከሱቅ ስትወጣ ያንኑ የቀድሞውን ጥቅል ዳቦ ብቻ ነበር የያዘችው፡፡ ስለነዎከር ክትትል እርግጠኛ ለመሆን ስትል ብቻ ነበረ ወደ ሱቅ የገባችው፣፣ ቀጥታ ዎከር ወደ ቆመበትም በንዴት ተንደርድራ በፈረንሳይኛ አንድ ነገር ተናገረችውና ሄደች፡፡
ምንድነው ያለችው? ሰደበችኝ እንዴ? ሲል ዎከር ፓተርስንን ጠየቀው፡፡ ፓተርሰን ልጅቱ ያለችውን መልሶ ለመናገር ዕፍረት ስለተሰማው ዝም አለ፡፡ ዎከር ደግሞ ስላነጋገረችው ብቻ የልብ ልብ ተሰማውና ፈጠን ፈጠን እያለ ተከተላት፡፡ ፓተርሰን ከምክር ጋር ከተዋወቁባት ዕለት ጀምሮእንደዛን ቀን ቂላ ቂልና ሐሳበ ግትር ሆኖበት አያውቅም፡፡ ስለ ሴቶችም ቢሆን ሁለቱም ከልምዳቸው አኳያ የተጫወቷቸው ብዙ ነገሮች ነበሩ፡፡ ፓተርሰንም በዓይኑ እንዳየው ምከር ለሴት በቀላሉ የሚሸነፍ ወት አልነበረም፡፡ በሮም ከተማ ባሳለፉቸው ቀናት ውስጥ ፓተርሰን ከአንዷ ሴት ወደ ሌላዋ ሲል ዎከር ግን ቁጥብ ሆኖ ነበረ የከረመው፣ ዛሬስ ዎከር በዚች ልጅ ላይ ሙዝዝ ያለው ለምንድን ይሆን ሲል ፓተርስን ተገረመ። ምናልባት ቢፈራና ክትትሉንም ቢያቋርጥ ሲል ልጅቱ የተናገረችውን ሊተረጉምለት መረጠ፡፡
ስማ ዎከር የልጅቱ አመለካከት እንዳየኸው ነው፡፡ እንድንከተላት ፈፅሞ አትፈልግም፡፡ ከእንግዲህ ደግሞ ብንከተላት ቀጥታ ከጦር አዛዣችን ድረስ ሄዳ ክስ እንደምታቀርብብን ነው የዛተችው፣ የቀልዷንም እንዳልሆነ ከሁኔታዋ ሳትረዳው የቀረህ አይመስለኝም አለው ፓተርሰን፡፡
ሰምን እኛም ጄነራሎች ነን አትላትም፡፡ ደግሞም አሁን በተናገርከው እኔ ሀከር የምፈራና ወደኋላ የምመሰስ አይደለሁም፡፡ ተከታትዬ መድረሻዋን ማወቅ አለብኝ አለና ዎከር መራመዱን ቀጠለ፡፡ አጠገቧም ደርሶ እጇን ያዝ ለማድረግ ሲል በኃይል ተሽከርክራ ዞራ ከአጠገቤ ሒድ ነው የምልህ ባለጌ! ብላ በእንግሊዘኛ ስድባው መንገዷን ቀጠለች:: እንዴ ንዴቷ ከሆነ ዎከርን ከአሁን አሁን በጥፊ አላስችው ሲል ፖተርሰን ፈርቶ ነበረ፡፡ ሆኖም አላደረገችውም፡፡ ምክር ግን እንደዚያ ብትሰድበውም ከአጠገቧ ለመለየት አልፈለገም፡፡ በዚያን ጊዜ ልጅቱ ቆም አለችና አትከተለኝ ማለት ምን ማለት እንደሆን አይገባህም? ደደብ ነህ? አለችው አሁንም በእንግሊዘኛ፡፡
“ደደብስ አይደለሁም፡፡ ብቻ አንቺን ለማነጋገር በመፈለጌ ነው፡፡ እኔ ሳም ዎከር እባላለሁ፡፡ ጓደኛዬ ደግሞ አርዘር ፖተርስን ይባላል፡፡ እባክሽን ያንቺንም ስም ንገሪኝ? ሲል ልብ የሚሰልብ ፈገግታ አሳያት፡፡ የልጅቱ ፊት በንዴት መቀያየሩን ምክር ተመልክቷል፡፡ በአነጋግሩም ስሜቷን እንደ ጐዳው ገብቶታል። ምክንያቱንም ስለሚያውቀው አንጀቱ ተላውሶበት የሚያደርገው ጠፋው።
በከንቱ አትልፋ' አለችና በእጇ ጭምር አሰናብታው ልትሄድ ስትል ዎከር ከፊቷ ቀደማትና ተጋረጠባት፡፡ ምን አለበት ብንተዋወቅ ሲል ደገመና በመለማመጥ ጠየቃት፡
“አይቻልም አልኩህ አለችው ጮክ ብላ።መቻል አለበት አላት እሁንም ዎከር፡፡
“ሜርድ! ቯላ| ሴ ኮምፕሪ? አለችው በፈረንሳይኛ፣
ሜርድ? አሰና ዎከር ወደ ጓደኛው ወደ ፓተርሰን ዞር በማለት ምን ማለቷ ነው እባክህ? ሲል ጠየቀው፡፡
ምናምንቴ ነህ ነው የምትልህ አለው ፓተርሰን ነገሩን ቀለል በማድረግ፡፡ ዎከርም አንደ በፊቱ ዓይነት ፈገግታውን እያሳያት ወይኔ ፈረንሳይኛ አውቁ ቢሆን ኖሮ? ስለ ክርስቶስ ፓተርሰን እባክሽ እብረን በና እንኳን እንጠጣ በልልኝ አለው በቀላሉ የምትሸነፍ ልጅ መስሎት፡፡
ፓተርሰን በሚያውቃት መጠነኛ ፈረንሳይኛ የዎከርን ጥያቄ
አቀረበላት፡፡
“ለምን?” ስትል ልጅቱ ጠየቀች፡፡
ጓደኛዬ ሊጋብዝሽ ስለፈለገ ነው አላት ፓተርስን አሁንም በፈረንሳይኛ፡፡
ጓደኛህ ሩህሩህ ሰውዬ ይመስሳል፡፡ ስለሆነም መጋበዝ የሚፈልጉ ብዙ ሴቶች በፓሪስ ውስጥ ስለሚገኙ እነርሱን መፈለጉ ይቀለዋል አለችና ከፊቷ በቆመው ዎከር ጐን አልፋ ሄደች፡፡ በመናደዷም ፈጠን ብላ ትራመድ እንጂ አሁንም አንገቷን ስበር ሳታደርግ እንደ በፊቱ ኰራ ብሳ ነበረ የምትሔደው፡፡ ዎከርም ጫማዎቿን ያየው በዚያን ጊዜ ነው፡፡ ጫማዋም እንደ ሰማያዊ ቀሚሷ ወደ ማለቁ የተቃረበ ነበረ፡፡
"ምንድን ነው ያለችህ? አለና ምከር ፓተርሰንን ጠየቀው።
ያለችው እንኳን ሙሉ ለሙሉ አልገባኝም፡፡ ግን ከእኛ ጋር ሰመታየት እንደማትፈልግና ጊዜያችንንም በከንቱ እንዳናባክን ምከሯን ለገሳን ነው የሔደችው አለ ፓተርስን ትንሽ ውሽት አከል አደረገበትና፡፡
በዚያንም ወቅት ልጅቱ ወደ ግራንድ ዲግሪ ጐዳና ታጥፋ ጥቂት ከሔደች በኋላ ከአንድ በር አጠገብ ስትደርስ ቆመች፡፡ በቀኝ እጇ ይዛው የነበረውን የዳቦ ጥቅል ከግራ ብብቷ ሥር አደረገችና እንደ ቀሚሷና ጫማዋ ያረጀውን የሳንቲም መያዣ ቦርሳዋን ከፈተች፣ ቁልፍም ካወጣች በኋሳ በፊት ለፊቷ የነበረውን በር ከፍታ ከገባች በኋላ በሀይል ዘጋችውናከበስተውስጥ ቆለፈችው። ዎከር ድልን አንደ ተቀዳጀ ዓይነት በፊቱ ላይ የደስታ ሰሜት ተነበበ፡፡ እንደ መሳቅም ከጆል አደረገው፡፡ ምን ተገኘና ነው ደስታው? ሲል ፓተርሰን በፌዝ ጠየቀው፡፡
አድራሻዋን ማወቃችንም አንድ ነገር ነው፡፡ አይመስልህም እንዴ? አስው ዎከር የምሩን፡፡
እና አድራሻዋን አወቅክና ምን ለመሆን ነው? አለው ፓተርሰን ምከርን ያለወትሮው በመታዘብ፡፡
ተመልሳ አስከምትወጣ እጠብቃታለሁ፡
ባትወጣስ? አለው ፓተርሰን፡፡
መውጣቷ የማይቀር ነው፡፡ ጥርጥርም የለውም ሲል ዎከር
መለሰለት፡፡
“ኣንድ ሰዓት፤ ሶስት ሰዓት፣ አምስት ሰዓት... ልትቆይ ትችላለች፡፡ የቆየችውን ያህል ትቆይ፡፡ እኔ ግን እጠብቃታለሁ፡፡
“እና እዚሁ ቆመህ ልትውል ነዋ? አብደሃል ማለት ነው? አለው አሁንም ፓተርሰን፡፡ የልጅቱን ቁንጅና ፓተርሰንም ቢሆን አምኖበታል፡፡ ሆኖም ፓሪስ ውስጥ ሌሎች ቆነጃጅት ነበሩ፡፡ ስለዚህ ፓተርሰን በፓሪስ ውስጥ የሚቆይባቸውን ጥቂት ቀናት ያለምክንያት ለማባከን አልፈለገም፡፡
ቆንጆ ፍለጋ መሔድ ነበረበት፡፡ ይቅርታ ዎከር አኔ ከዚህ ግርግዳ ተደግፌ ቆሜ ለመዋል አልፈልግም፡፡ እናም መሔዴ ነው አለው፡፡
“ሒድ ፓተርሰን ቅድም፣ ቡና ከጠጣንበት መናፈሻ ሥፍራ አንገናኛለን አለው ዎከር፡፡
አንተ ግን እዚሁ ልትቆይ ነው?
ልከ ነህ፡፡ እዚሁ መቆየቴ ነው አለና ሲጋራ አያይዞ ከግርግዳው ተደገፈ፡፡ ፓተርሰንም ለጥቂት ጊዜ ራሱን በትዝብት አወዛወዘና ምንም ሳይናገረው ከጐኑ ሔዶ ቆመ፡፡ ዝም ዝም ተባባሉም፣ ደቂቃዎች መብረር ጀመሩ፡፡ ከአንድ ሰዓት ያህልም በኋላ በራፉ ተከፍቶ ልደቱ ብቅ አለች፡፡ ወዲያውኑም እነ ዎከርን ስላየቻቸው ወደ ውስጥ ፈጥና ገባች፡፡ ግን ብዙም ሳትቆይ ሐሳቧን ለውጣ ነበርና ተመልሳ ወጣች፡፡ የተጐነጕነውንፀጉሯን አሁን ለቃው ነበረ፡፡ ከበፊቱም ይልቅ ውበቷ ጨምሯል፡፡ በእጆቿም ጥቂት መፃህፍት ይዛለች፡፡ እንደተኰሳተረችም በአጠገባቸው ልታልፍ ስትል ዎከር ቀስ ብሎ እጇን ነካ አደረገው፡፡ ዘወር ብላ በእነኛ አረንጓዴ ዓይኖቿ አየት አደረገችው፡፡ የዚያን ጊዜው አመለካከቷ ብቻውን ሰፊ መልዕክት የሚያስተላልፍ ነበረ፡፡ ያሳለፈችው መራራ ኑሮ በእነኛ ዓይኖቿ ውስጥ ተመዝግቦ የሚነበብ ይመስሳል፡፡ ከዚያም ሌላ ደግሞ የምከር ፍላጐት ምን እንደሆነ ማውቋንና እርሱም እሺ እንደማትሰው አፍ አውጥታ ብትነግረው እንኳን ተስፋ የማይቆርጥ ችኮ ሰው መሆኑን መረዳቷን ከዚያ ከአስተያየቷ ለመገንዘብ ይቻል ነበረ፡፡
ጥላቸው ከመሔዷ በፊት ዎከር እየተቻኮለ እባክሽ ፈቃድሽ ይሁንና ምግብ እንኳን ልጋብዝሽ?” ሲል ለመናት፡፡ ፓተርሰን እስከሚተ ረጉምላት ድረስ ጊዜም የሚወስድ መስሎት በአጆቹ የመመገብ ምልክት አሳያት-- የተናገራት ዓይን ዓይኖቿን በርህራሔ እያየ ነበረ፡፡ ሊጐዳት ወይንም ሊያባልጋት አለመፈለጉንም በአስተያየቱ ሊያረጋግጥላት ሞከረ፡፡ ምከር የፈለገው ለጥቂት ደቂቃዎች ከፊት ለፊቱ ተቀምጣ ሊያያት ብቻ ነበረ፡፡ ሰሁለተኛ ጊዜ ደፍሮ እንኳን እጇን እንደማይነካው በሆዱ ወስኖአል፡፡ “እሺ በይኛ? አላት እንደ ህፃን ልጅ ዓይኖቹን እያቁለጨሰጨ፡፡
“አልችልም አለችው ዓይኖቿን ሰበር ሳታደርግ። ዎከር በመቀየም ምትከ ፈገግ አለና፣ እባክሽን የኔ ወይዘሪት፣ ሁለተኛ አላስቸግርሽም። ለዛሬ ብቻ ግብዣዬን ተቀበይልኝ አላት አሁንም በዓይኖቹ ጭምር እየተለማመ፡፡
“አልችልም አልኩህ አልችልም!" አለች ለስለስ ባለ አነጋገር፡ “ለምን? አለ ምክር ተስፋ ባለመቁረጥ፡፡
“ለምን? ለምን? አለች አሁንም ረጋ ብላ፡፡ ለመጋበዝ ስለማልፈልግ
ብቻ ነው አለች በፈረንሳይኛ፡፡
ዎከር ያስችው ስላልገባው ወደ ፓተርሰን ዞር አለ፡፡ ፓተርሰንም “ሰመጋበዝ ስለማልፈልግ ነው ትልሃለች አለው፡፡
የዎከር ፊት ቀጭም እንደሰማት አለና ግን ለምን? እይው እኔና ፓተርሰን ጨዋ ሰዎች ነን፡፡ እኔ የፈሰኩት ምግብ እንድ ጋብዝሽ ብቻ ነው፡፡ አምስት ደቂቃ .... እባከሽ? አላት ሊያለቅስ እንደ ተቃረበ ሰው የዓይን ቆቦቹን ገርበብ አድርጎ፣ዝም ብላ ስታየው ቆየችና ራሷን አወዛወዘች፡፡ “ማንም ሰው ጋብዞኝ አያውቅም፡፡ ከአንድም አሜሪካዊ ሆነ ጀርመናዊ ጋር ሆቴል ቤት ሄጄ አላውቅም አለችው፡፡ እንደዚህ ተናግራው ብትሄድ ኖሮ የምከር ዓይኖች ያቀረሩትን ዕንባ በዘረገፉትም ነበር፡፡ ግን አሁንም ቆማ ታየው ስለነበረ ዕንባውን እንደምንም እየታገለ ሰሜን አፍሪካ ... ጣሊያን ... አሁን ደግሞ ፈረንሳይ፡፡ ቀን ጦርነት ... ማታ ጦርነት ... እያለ ሲንገላቱ መኖራቸውን በውጊያ ምልክቶች ካሳያት በኋላ እባክሽ ቡና ብቻ ልግዛልሽ ... አምስት ደቂቃ ... እሺ? አላት፡፡
ያን ጊዜም በርህራሄ አመለካከት አየችው፡፡ ዎከር እሺ የምትለው መስሎት ፊቱ ፊካ እንደ ማለት አለ፡፡ ልጅቱ ግን አሁንም ራሷን አወዛወዘችና ስለማልችል አዝናለሁ ብላ ጥላው ፈጠን ፈጠን እያለች ተራምዳ ሄደች፡፡ አሁን ግን ዎከር አልተከተላትም፡፡ ቢከተላትም ዋጋ እንደማይኖረው ያውቃል፡፡ ያገኘው አንድ ተስፋ ጭላንጭል ብቻ ነበር፡፡ በአነጋገረችው ወቅት ወደ ጣቶቿ አየት አድርጎ ቀለበት አለማድረጓን ልብ ብሏል፡፡ አላገባችም ነበር ማለት ነው፡፡ ደግሞ ለዚህ በይበልጥ የሚመሰክረው ለጋ ፊቷ ነበረ፡፡ በዚህ ለመፅናናት በቅቷል፡፡ ስለዚህ አሁንም ግርግዳውን እንደተደገፈ እስክትመለስ ሊጠብቃት ፈለገ፡፡
እንሂድ እንጂ ዎከር ከእንግዲህ ምን ታደርጋለህ? ቁርጥ ያለ መልስ ለጥታህ ነው የሄደችው አለና ፓተርሰን መራመድ ጀመረ፡፡ የተናገረችውን ሰምቻለሁ ግን ሃሳቧን ልትቀይር ትችላለች አለ ዎከር ተስፋ ባለመቁረጥ፣፣
ፓተርሰን ቆም አለና! አዎን ሃሳቧን ልትቀይር ትችል ይሆናል፡፡ እንደ ቅድሙም በሰላም አታናግረን ይሆን ይሆናል፡፡ እንጋብዝሽ ስንል ብዙ ጊዜ ለምነናት እምቢ ብላለች፡፡ ከእንግዲህ ወዲያ ብናስቸግራት ምናልባት አባቷንና ጐረምሶች ወንድሞቿን ጠርታ ጥርሳችንን ልታስረግፈው ትችላለች፡፡ ባለውለታ አድርገው የሚቆጥሩ የፈረንሳይ ቆነጃጅት አያሉ በአንዲት ሴት የተነሳ የምንደበደብበት ምከንያት አይታየኝም አለው አምርሮ።
ምከር ከቆመበት ነቅነቅ ሳይል፣ ፓተርሰን ከተዋወቅንበት ጊዜ ጀምሮ ለሴት በቀላሉ የማልንበረከከ ሰው መሆኔን ታውቃታለህ፣ ይቺ ልጅ ግን ልዩ ሆነችብኝ፡፡ እንደዚች ልጅ ያለች አንድም ሴት አይቼ አላውቅም ሊል ከልቡ ተናገረ፡፡“እሺ፤ እንዳልከው ልዩ ፍጥረት ናት ልበልልህ፡፡ ሆኖም ያለ
ፍላጐቷ አስገድደህ ምን ልታደርግ ነው ምክር? ከዕድሜህ በላይ አመዛዛኝ ሰው ትመስለኝ ነበር፡፡ ግን ዛሬ ምን እንደነካ አላውቅም፡፡ እኔ ግን ልሄድ መሆኑን እንድታወቀው አለና ፓተርሰን ጥሎት ሊሄድ ሲል ዎከር ሃሳቡን ቀየረና ተከተለው፣ በየሄዱበትና በየደረሰበት ሁሉ ለዎከር የምትታየው ያቺ ልጅ ብቻ ናት፡፡ ከፊቱ ድቅን ትልበታለች፡፡ ከአረንጓዴ ዓይኖቿ ውስጥ ያነበበው የሀን አመለካከቷ ልቡን አስጨንቆታል፡፡ የአለባበሷም ጐሳቆል ሆድ ሆዱን በልቶታል፡፡ እሺ የማለቷ ነገር አጠራጣሪ ሆነበት እንጂ፤ ያቺን ልጅ ለማስደሰት የተጠየቀውን መስዋዕት ለመክፈል ፈቃደኛ ነበር፡፡
እራት ከበሉ በኋላ ፓተርሰን ከሶስት ልጃገረዶች ጋር በመዳራት ላይ እንዳለ ምከር ጣለውና ተሾልኮ ወጣ፡፡ ከዚያም በዱአርኵል ጐዳና አድርጉ በሰዬን ወንዝ ላይ ወደ ተሰራው ድልድይ አመራ። ድልድዩንም ተሻግሮ ወደ ሞንትቤል አውራ ጎዳና ታጠፈ፣ ብዙ ከተጓዘ በኋላ ከግራንድ ዲግሪ መንገድ ደረሰ፣፣ ወደ ልጅቱም ቤት አቅጣጫ አሳብሮ ሄደ፡፡ ከበራፍም ቆመና ጥቂት ሲያስብ ቆየ፡፡ ከዚያም ከፊት ለፊቱ ወደ ነበረው ቡና ቤት ገባና ከልጅቱ በር ትይዩ የነበረ ወንበር መርጦ ተቀምጦ ቡና ኣዘዘ፡፡ ያንንም መራራ ቡና መጠጣት ጀመረ፡፡ ዓይኖቹ ግን በዚያች ልጅ ቤት በር ላይ እንደተስኩ ነበር፡፡
በሩ ከአሁን አሁን ተከፍቶ ልጅቱ ትወጣለች ብሎ ሲጠብቅ ሲጠበት ቆየ። በራፉ ግን፤ አንዴም አልተከፈተም፣፣ ዎከርም ከተቀመ ጠበት አልተንቀሳቀሰም፡፡ በመጨረሻ ላይ ልጅቱ ቀን ከሄደችበት አቅጣጫ ስትመለስ አየ:: በእጇም መፃህፍ እንደያዘች ነበረች፣ ደረጃዎቹን ወጥታ ከበራፍ እንዳረሰች የሳንቲም መያዣዋን ቦርሳ ከፍታ ቁልፍ ትፈልግ ጀመር፡፡ በዚያን ጊዜም ዎከር ጥቂት ሳንቲምች አውጥቶ ከጠረጴዛው ላይ ካኖረ በኋላ እየተቻኮለ ወጣ፣፣ ሮጠናም መንገዱን አቋረጠ፡፡ ልጅቱም የሩጫ ኮቴ በመስማቷ ተደናግጣ ዘወር አለች፡፡ ከዎከርም ጋር ዓይን ለዓይን ተጋጨ፡፡ ወደኋላዋ ለማፈግፈግ እንደ መከጀል ብላ ነበር፡፡ ሆኖም፤ መፍራት እንደማይኖርባት ደግሞ ወዲያውኑ ተሰማትና ባለችበት በልበ ሙሉነት ቆመች፡፡ ዛሬ ነጻ በጠጣችው ፓሪስ ሳይሆን በጀርመን ይዞታ ስር በነበረችበትም ወቅት ቢሆን ያቺ ልጅ የፍርሃት መንፈስ አሳይታ አታውቅም፡፡ እና አሁንም ምከርን ባየችው ጊዜ አመለካከቷ የመደንገጥ ሳይሆን የመሰልቸት ነበረ፡፡ለዎከር አድራጎቱ ሁሉ የህጻን መስሎ ተሰማው፡፡ ልጅቱንም በማስቸገሩ ተፀፀተ፡፡ ሆኖም፤ አንድ ጊዜ አድርጎታልና ከእንግዲህ ወደኋሳ መመለስ አልቻለም፡፡ ድፍረትም በመጨመር፣ “ወይዘሪት እንደምን አምሽተሻል? ሲል ሰላምታ ሰጣት፡፡
እናት ህጻን ልጇ ሲባልን ስታየው እራሷን በማወዛወዝ እንደምትገስጸው ሁሉ ያችም ልጅ በትዝብት እራሷን አወዛወዘችና፤ ፑርኳ ሹሙ ፐርሴዩቬ? አለችው :: ዎከር ምን ማለቷ እንደሆነ አያውቅም፡፡ ዝም ብሎ ብቻ ያያታል። - አስተርጓሚውም ፓተርሰን ከጎኑ አልነበረለትም፡፡ የተናገረችው እንዳልገባው ተረዳችና እርሷም በመጠኑም ቢሆን በምታውቀው አንግሊዘኛ፤ ለምንድ ነው እንደዚህ የምታደርገው? ለምን ትከታተለኛለህ?” ስትል ጠየቀችው።
ሳነጋግርሽ በመፈለጌ ብቻ ነው አለ ዎከር ድምጹን ልስልስ አድርጎ፣ ከእጅጌ ጉርድ ሰማያዊ ቀሚሷ ውስጥ የወጡትን ክንዶቿን ሊነካቸውም ፈለገ፡፡ ሹራብ ስላልደረበች እንደሚበርዳት ያውቃል። ክንዶቿን በእጆቹ ባሻቸውና ባሞታቸው ደስታው ነበረ፡፡
ወደ መንገዱ ግራና ቀኝ በእጆቿ እያመለከተች በፓሪስ ውስጥ ብዙ ልጃገረዶች አሉ፡፡ ከአሜሪካኖች... ከጀርመኖች ጋር ለመዳራት የሚፈልጉ፤ ሞልተዋል አለችው።
“አንቺስ? ከፈረንሳዊ ጋር ካልሆነ በስተቀር አትነጋገሪም ማለት ነው? አላት ምክር እየተከዘ፣
እርሷ ግን ፈገግ አለችና፤ ፈረንሳዊ... ጀርመን... ኣሜሪካን ሁሉም ያው ናቸው፡፡ - ማንንም ለማነጋገር አልፈልግም አለችው። እንግዳ ባይሆን ኖሮ በጀርመኖች ይዞታ ወቅት ፈረንሳዮች በፈረንሳዮች ላይ የፈጸሙትን የክህደት ስራ ሁሉ በገለጸችለት በወደደችም ነበረ፡፡
ሌሳ የምለምንሽ ምንም ነገር አይኖርም፡፡ ሁለተኛም ካላነጋገርሽኝ ብዬ አላስቸግርሽም። ለእኔ መጽናኛ እንዲሆን አንድ ነገር ብቻ እንድትነግሪኝ እማፀንሻለሁ፡፡ የኔ ስም ሳም ዎከር ነው። የአንቺን ሰም ደግሞ እባክሽ ንገሪኝ? አላት ዎከር ዓይን ዓይኖቿን እያየ፡፡
ዝም ብላ ለረጅም ጊዜ ስታስብ ቆየች፡፡ ስሟን መናገር አልፈ ለገችም፡፡ ሆኖም ዎከር ዳግመኛ እንደማያስቸግራት ቃል ገብቷል፡፡በተጨማሪም ከፓሪስ በቅርብ ቀናት ውስጥ ሊሔድ ይችላል፡፡ ስለዚ ስሟን ብቻ በመንገር የምትገላገል ከሆነ ብነግረውስ? ቀላል ነው» ስትል ትከሻዋን ሰበት አደረገችና፣ ሶንላጅ በርትራንድ አለችው፡፡ ዎከር እንድት ጨብጠው እጁን ዘረጋ፣፣ የእርሷ እጅ ግን አልተነቃነቀም።
ሒዳ፤ ስሜን ነግሬሃለሁ፣ ከንግዲህ ምን ቀረህ? አለችው በቀላለ የተገላገለችው መሰሏት፡፡
“አንድ ቡና ብቻ ልጋብዝሽ፡፡ እባክሽ ወይዘሪት እሺ በይኝ፡፡ ከዚያ በኋላ እግፊ ወደዚህ አካባቢ አይደርስም አላት ዎከር ሲቃ እየተናነቀው፡ በርሱ ግምት የምትናደድና የምትሰድበው ነበረ የመሰሰው፡፡ እርሷ ግን፣ ለግብዣው በማወላወል አንገቷን እወዛወዘችና ለመጀመሪያ ጊዜ አቀርቅሪ ቆየች፡፡ ቀናም ብላ በግራ እጇ ይዛ ወደ ነበረው መፅሐፍ እያመለከተችው ዤ ስዊ ትፊ ፋቲግ አለችው ወደ ፈረንሳይኛዋ ተመልሳ፡፡ በእርግጥም ስለ መድከሟ ከፊቷ ላይ ይነበብ ነበረ፡፡
ከትምህርት ቤት አያመሸሻ ነው የምትመጪው ማለት ነው? ሲል ዎከር ቶሎ አለና ጠየቃት፡፡
-ኣይደለም ማታ ማታ አቤቱ ድረስ እየሄድኩ የማስተምረው ልጅ እሎ አለችው፡፡
“እና ሱናውን ተጋበዝልኝ አለ ዎከር ዓይነ ከርተት እያለ፡፡
ደክሞኛል እያልኩህ"
እባክሽን ወይዘሪት? አምስት ደቂቃ ብቻ ...”
ዳ አኮርድ ... እሺ ... ግን አምስት ደቂቃ ብቻ አለች፡፡ ዎከር ለጥቂት ጊዜ ያህል ልቡ ጉሮሮው ውስጥ የተሻጠች መስለው ከደስታውም የተነሳ ሰማይና ምድሩ ዞረበት፡፡ ልጅቱ የያዘችውን መፅሐፍ እንዴት እንደተቀበላትና እጇንም ይዞ መንገዱን እንዴት እንዳሻገራት አያውቀውም፡ ከቡናው ቤት ገብተው ወንበር ይዘው እንደተቀመጡ፤ ባለቤቱ ወደነርስ መጣና ሰላምታ ሰጣቸው፡፡ ልጅቱንም ያውቃት ነበርና እንደምን አመሸ ወይዘሪት ሶላንጅ? ሲል ስሟን በመጥራት አነጋገራት፡፡
“ሶላንጅ ... ሶላንጅ ... ሶላንጅ የልጅቱ ስም በዎከር ጭንቅላት ውስጥ እንደ ደወል አንቃጨለበት፡፡ በህልም ዓለም ውስጥ እንዳልነበረምበዚያን ጊዜ ተረዳ፡፡ ልጅቱ የነገረችው እውነተኛ ስሟን ነበረ፡፡ በዐፀደ ነፍስም ከፊት ለፊቱ ከነበረው ወንበር ላይ አሁን ተቀምጣለች፡፡
ያዘዘችው ሻይ ብቻ ነበረ። ዎከር ግን ምግብ ካልቀረበ ብሎ ሙዝዝ እለ፣፣ ሶላንጅ ተሽነፈችለትና ምግብ ታዘዘ፡፡ ዎከር በዚያን አጋጣሚ ነበረ የሶላንጅን ቅጥነት ልብ ብሎ ያየው፡፡ የችማር ጊዜ ማሳለፏን ታወሰውና አንጀቱ አለቀሰላት፡፡ የደረቷ አጥንቶች መታየት ጀምረው ነበረ፡፡ ሶላንጅ ከእንግዲህ አልተግደረደረችም፡፡ የቀረበላትንም ምግብ በልታ ጨረሰች። ለማወራረጃ ወይን እንዲመጣላት ሥከር አዞ ነበረ፣፣ እርሷ ግን ከሻይ ሌላ እንደማትጠጣ ነገረችው፡፡ ውስጥ ውስጡን ስታብላላ የቆየችውን ጥያቄ ያቀረበችለትም የመጣላትን ትኩስ ሻይ በመጠጣት ላይ እንዳለች ነበረ። ለምንድን ነው ልትጋብዘኝ የፈለግከው? ስትልም ጠየቀችው።
ዎከር የሚናገረው ጠፋበት፡፡ ለምን ቀኑን ሙሉ ሲከተላት እንደዋሉና እንድታነጋግረው እንደ ፈለገ፤ በተለይም ደግሞ ለምን ምግብ ሊጋብዛት እንደፈለገ ያውቀዋል:: ገና ዓይኖቹ በርሷ ላይ እንዳረፉ ነበረ ምከር የለየለት፡፡ አሁን ግን ምክንያቱን አጥቶ ለመናገር አቃተው፡፡
ምክንያቱን እንዲህ ነው ብዬ ለመናገር ይቸግረኛል አለና ዓይን ዓይኗን ማየቱን መረጠ፡፡ ሶላንጅ ግን በሰጣት መልስ ግራ ለመጋባቷ በግልፅ ይታወቅ ነበረ፡፡ በመሆኑም ምክር ማብራሪያ ለመስጠት ተገደደ። በቅድሚያ የቀኝ እጁን በልቡ ላይ አደረገ፡፡ ቀጠለናም ዓይኖቹን ነካክቶ፣ አንቺን ከማየቱ ልቆጣጠረው የማልችለው ስሜት አደረብኝ አላት፡፡
ባምከር ንግግር ሶላንጅ አልተደሰተችም። በአባባሉም ዕፍረት ተስምቷት በቡና ቤቱ ውስጥ የነበሩትን ሌሎች ስዎች ተገላምጣ ተመለከተች፡፡ አብዛኛዎቹ የአሜሪካ ወታደሮች ናቸው፡፡ በገናቸውም የፈረንሳይ ሴቶች ነበሩ።
አይደለም! አይደለም፤ እንደዛ ማለቴ አይደለም አላት ዎከር እንደሌሎቹ ሰብልግና ያልፈለጋት መሆኑን በመግለፅ፣
“ታዲያ ለምንድን ነው? አለችው ሶላንድ፣
“የእኔ የተለየ ነው፡፡ ከልብ የመነጨ ስሜት ነው አላት፡፡
“ከልብ ከልብ ብሎ ነገር የለም አለችው፡፡
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The US is investigating a leak of classified documents describing an American assessment of Israel's plans to attack Iran, House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson has confirmed.
The documents were reportedly published online last week and are said to describe satellite imagery showing Israel moving military assets in preparation for a response to Iran's missile attack on 1 October.
The documents, marked top secret, were shareable within the Five Eyes intelligence alliance of the US, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, CBS, the BBC's US partner, reported.
For weeks Israel has been deciding how and when to respond to Iran's latest missile attack. Israel's defence minister has warned it will be “deadly, precise and surprising”.The two documents reportedly appear to be attributed to the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency (NSA), and were published on an Iranian-aligned Telegram account on Friday.
Johnson, the highest-ranking member of Congress, told CNN on Sunday that "the leak is very concerning".
"There's some serious allegations being made, there's an investigation under way, and I'll get a briefing on that in a couple of hours," the Louisiana Republican lawmaker said.
The Pentagon confirmed in a statement that it was aware of reports about the documents, but did not comment further.
The US agencies involved, as well as the Israeli government, have not publicly commented on the leak.One document makes a reference to Israel’s nuclear capabilities - which neither the US nor Israel ever officially acknowledge - apparently ruling out the use of such an option in any planned strike.
One former American intelligence official told the BBC the unauthorised release was probably an attempt to expose the scale of the planned retaliation, possibly to disrupt it.
The US is investigating whether the information was intentionally leaked by a US agent, or whether it was stolen, possibly through hacking, officials told the Associated Press (AP).
The two documents appear to be based on satellite information obtained from 15-16 October.
The first is titled: "Israel: Air Force Continues Preparations for Strike on Iran and Conducts a Second Large-Force Employment Exercise," according to Reuters news agency. It describes ballistic and air-to-surface missile handling.
The second is titled: "Israel: Defense Forces Continue Key Munitions Preparations and Covert UAV Activity Almost Certainly for a Strike on Iran". It discusses Israeli drone movements.
On Friday, US President Joe Biden said he had a "good understanding" of what Israel was planning.
"Do you have a good understanding of what Israel is going to do right now in response to Iran... and when they will actually respond?" a reporter asked him.
"Yes, and yes," Biden replied.
"Can you tell us?" asked the reporter.
"No, and no."
