At ten o'clock the following morning, the atmosphere inside the subterranean executive briefing amphitheater of the Al-Mansoor Consortium was as tense as a loaded missile silo. The room was designed for high-stakes sovereign infrastructure audits: tiered leather seating for sixty senior engineers, international legal counsel, and government advisors, facing a massive sixty-foot panoramic interactive projection wall. At the center of the executive dais sat Sheikh Tariq Al-Mansoor, flanked by four…
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