Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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If Umluana noticed Read's gun, he didn't show it. He read the warrant carefully. When he finished, he said something in Dutch. "I don't know your language," Rashid said. "Then I'll speak English." Umluana was a small man with wrinkled brow, glasses and a mustache. His skin was a shade lighter than Read's. "The Inspector General doesn't have the power to arrest a head of state—especially the Premier of Belderkan. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must return to my party." In the other room people laughed and talked. Glasses clinked in the late afternoon. Read knew two armed men stood just outside the door. "If you leave, Premier, I'll have to shoot you." "I don't think so," Umluana said. "No, if you kill me, all Africa shot. That's why I brought him with me. I think he to shoot, too." Umluana turned back to Rashid a second too soon. He saw the sergeant's upraised hand before it collided with his neck. "Help! dropped it and yellow psycho gas hissed from the valve. "Let's be off," Rashid said. The door lock snapped as they went out the window. Two men with rifles plunged into the gas sighing, they fell to the floor in a catatonic trance. covering their retreat. front seat. "They'll be after us in half a minute." "Thanks," Rashid said. The inspector slid out of the car and ran to a clump of bushes. The driver pushed in the accelerator. As they swerved toward the "They don't know who's coming," he said. "They don't make them cards and shooting the bull and then there's a plane crash or but the black population of Africa still struggled toward political equality. Umluana took control of Belderkan in 1979. The tiny, former Dutch 1982, South Africa claimed the Belderkan Army exceeded the size But the evidence was clear. Umluana was defying world law. If he got away with it, some larger and more dangerous nation might follow his precedent. And the arms race would begin again. The Inspector General decided. They would enter Belderkan, arrest Belderkan fighters in hot pursuit, other nations joining the chase and the world uproar gaining volume. By transmitter, if all went well, they could have Umluana in Geneva in an hour. there before it could be defended. "There's no military base near Miaka," Rashid said. "We might get there before the Belderkans." "Here comes our escort," Read said. A big car rose from the jungle. This one had a recoilless rifle "One thing," Read said, "I don't think they'll shoot at us while alike. I'll bet Umluana's lieutenants are hoping he'll become a dead legend. Then they can become live conquerors." "Here they come, Sarge." Rashid turned his head. He waved frantically. The two men in the other car waved back. "Shall I duck under the trees?" the driver asked. "Not yet. Not until we have to." surrounded each vehicle. The escort car made a sharp turn and charged their pursuers. The big rifle fired twice. Read saw the Belderkan cars scatter. Suddenly machine-gun bullets cracked and whined beside him. "Evade," Rashid said. "Don't go down." Without losing any forward speed, the driver took them straight up. Read's stomach bounced. They knelt on the cramped floor. Rashid put on his gas mask and Read copied him. Umluana breathed like a furnace, still unconscious from the injection Rashid had given him. shoot back. All we can do is run. color. In the distance guns crashed. He listened to shells Another explosion, this time very loud. Rashid raised his eyes above the seat and looked out the rear window. "Two left. Keep down, Read." "Can't we go down?" Read said. the transmitter booth. Rashid opened the door and threw out two grenades. Read jumped out and the two of them struggled toward the booth with Umluana. The driver, pistol in hand, ran for the control panel. All three panicked when the psycho gas enveloped them. They ran howling for the jungle. Umluana in the booth and hit the floor. Read took aim and opened "Now, I can shoot back," he said. "Now we'll see what they do." "Are you ready, Rashid?" yelled the driver. "Man, get us out of here!" The booth door shut. When it opened, they were at the Game the blood he deposited on the floor. "Did you get Umluana?" he asked Sergeant Rashid. "He's in the booth. What's going on?" Rashid's Middle East Oxford seemed more clipped than ever. Rashid swore. "You heard him, Read! Get out there and help those men." shock wave. He got up, ran panicky, crouched, and dove behind the spread through the building. They could see anyone who tried to rush them but the besiegers couldn't pick out targets. Above the noise, he heard Rashid. "I'm calling South Africa Station for a copter. It's the only way out of here. Until it comes, we've got to hold them back." light automatic rifles. Half of them wore gas masks. "Shoot the masks," he yelled. "Aim for the masks." target and squeezed off a burst. Tensely, he hunted for another they had met the Belderkans with a dozen grenades and sent them scurrying for cover. The fight so far had been vicious but disorganized. But the Belderkans had a few hundred men and knew more times and continue to spray the building with bullets. They could also try to go around the hill and attack the station from the Belderkans could sneak to the top of the hill. "The copter will be here in half an hour. We'll put Umluana on, then try to save ourselves. Once he's gone, I think we ought to surrender." with gasoline." "We'll stop them, Sarge. Don't worry." Rashid ran off. Read stared across the green land and listened to the pound of his heart. What were the Belderkans planning? A mass frontal attack? To sneak in over the top of the hill? He didn't think, anymore than a rabbit thinks when it lies hiding from the fox or a panther thinks when it crouches on a branch "We've got to knock that thing out before the copter comes. Rashid snapped orders. He put the German inspector in charge of Umluana. Read, the Frenchman and himself, he stationed at thirty-foot intervals along the floor. "Remember," Rashid said. "We have to knock out that gun." engulfed the tank. Read stood up and ran forward. He crouched but didn't zigzag. Speed counted most here. Gunfire shook the hill. The Belderkans couldn't see them but they knew what was going on and they fired systematically into the Guns clattered. Bullets cracked. He heard nothing but the lonely passage of the bullets in the the neck. He didn't feel them. He had fainted the moment he felt the bottle leave his hand. The copter landed ten minutes later. Umluana left in a shower of bullets. A Russian private, the ranking man alive in the station, surrendered the survivors to the Belderkans. His mother hung the Global Medal above the television set.

<question>:
Why are the Belderkans shooting if they might hit Umlauna?

<options>:
A The Belderkans don't like Umlauna. He tried to invade their country.
B The Belderkans want Umlauna dead. That's why Read and Rashid are rescuing him.
C If they shoot Umlauna, he'll be a martyr for their cause. That is okay.
D The Belderkans don't realize that Umlauna is with Read and Rashid.

<answer>:

C