The Paper Factory (Michael Berg Book 1) by Norrie Sinclair Page A

could not see where there could possibly be a Middle Eastern or Islamic connection.
      Lajvih, as far as he could see, meant nothing. But Allun was clearly an alternative spelling of Allan.
      Aksim, Allan. Were these the people responsible? Well, if they were, it was a huge leap forward, but only if he or the police could track them down. He tried the other letters, hope overcoming logic.
      Tah didn’t get him anywhere. The word had thirteen million entries. Nothing on the first five pages of hits stood out.
      When he entered cnimrah and clicked on the first entry, his eyes widened.
    Numbers 32:1–36:13
    The Tribes Settling East of the Jordan
    32 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying, “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, cNimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon, the Country which the Lord defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.”
     
      The passage from the bible specifically referred to the return of the tribes of Israel to the Promised Land after spending forty years in the wilderness. Nimrah was a leader of one of the tribes. The c in cnimrah was a reference which when clicked on referred specifically to the passages in Numbers 32 to 36 where God gives the Israelites the Kingdom of the Amorites, the Kingdom of Og and the Kingdom of Bashan. These kingdoms lay on the opposite side of the Jordan River from modern day Israel. It was after establishing themselves in these two kingdoms that the Israelites crossed the Jordan and were commanded by God to:
     
    “drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places; you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess.”
      Michael couldn’t discount a Middle East connection. Aksim was a Middle Eastern name. Some of the references to Tah seemed to have Arabic connotations. And then there was the reference to cNimrah. Was it plausible that the stolen money was being used to support Hamas or Hezbollah? Michael moved on to the final three words.
      The first twenty pages of almost fourteen million hits for zit referenced everything you wanted to know about teenage acne. He moved onto Cloyn. Cloyn appeared to be another name of Irish origin. Was there an Irish connection? Ties between Middle Eastern terrorist organizations and the Irish Republican Army, the IRA, were well documented.
      With twenty-five billion hits on the word “to” he quickly moved on to “ygen.” The dozens of entries he glanced at all referred either to power generation or, in most cases, referenced websites being used by companies and individuals all trying to jump onto the y generation bandwagon.
      His mood had sunk from rising elation that he was about to discover something that would reveal an international terrorist conspiracy, to mild disappointment that the last three words had yielded nothing.
  He sat back and gazed unseeingly at the framed print hanging before him on the wall. He waited for five minutes, letting his mind clear. He decided to go back through the words on Google to see if he had missed anything. He saw nothing unusual or especially interesting until again he got to cnimrah.
      The word had fewer than forty hits and at least half of them pointed to websites with a domain name ending in .hu. A quick search revealed that .hu was a suffix for websites registered in Hungary. Yet when he used Google