
Concurrent with the main events
Deaths of al-Fadl and Köves
Allamah Syed al-Fadl is found dead in the desert near Dubai, having been abandoned by a captor. Rabbi Yehuda Köves, after receiving a threatening phone call from an informant, flees his home in Budapest but is pursued by an assassin. He is killed in a bathroom at Bar Szimpla, his death made to look like a heart attack. The deaths of the two religious leaders who knew Kirsch's secret fuel conspiracy theories and suggest a coordinated effort to silence anyone who could reveal the discovery.