Amir blinked his eyes, with long eyelashes like a girl. He said: "I am the king, but not the ruler of this country. The important task of leading the country should be left to the prime minister and parliament, and to the people. If it must be done,
If there is one thing, I will grant amnesty."
Said was silent for a while. His son's answer made him satisfied and worried. This world where the jungle is strong and the strong eats the strong is not a paradise for idealists, but these thoughts of his son are not the result of his own words and deeds.
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In Beijing, in a building covered with ivy, military officers and experts on Middle East issues were sitting at attention, discussing the recent situation in Colin. The ambassador to Colin sent a confidential telegram, reporting Saied's movements. The relevant personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Staff were working on the national energy strategy and security.
This meeting was held under the leadership of the group to strive to make a decision that best suits our country's interests in the shortest possible time.
Yao Guang, dressed in military uniform, attended the meeting, holding a small book to take notes. It was not his turn to speak at the meeting. The experts expressed their opinions. After a fierce debate, they decided to strongly support Said and not let the previous efforts go.
It's all in vain, let alone losing the positions that were finally occupied to the Americans.
After the meeting, Yao Guang drove to a hotel to have dinner with friends. When he went to the bathroom during the dinner, he stuffed a note into the toilet water tank. He followed the person who came in, took out the note, and looked at it.
, tore it into pieces and flushed it into the toilet.
Ten minutes later, Richard Thorpe, who was lobbying Congress in Washington, received intelligence from China, and he immediately called a meeting with his partners.
In recent days, Thorpe and his friends have been in dire straits. The Department of Justice has begun investigating the Norman Oil acquisition, and the Pentagon has held hearings on the unauthorized use of Navy carrier-based aircraft to bomb the so-called Colin terrorists. What is even more worrying is that Norman
Mann Petroleum's stock price has plummeted. If the acquisition fails, then the two years of efforts will be in vain.
"I can lobby the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Navy can also find a few generals to speak for us, but the key issue is Said." Thorp pointed to King Colin on the projector and said, "This person is difficult to control.
, according to the intelligence I have, he is going to turn to the Chinese again this time, so I suggest taking the final plan to eliminate him physically."
The big bosses all nodded calmly, looking very sternly.
Friends from the CIA immediately started making arrangements. They could use their own paramilitary forces to operate without going through the military. The plan to assassinate Said had been prepared for a long time. The insiders in the palace could inform Said of his itinerary, route and time at any time.
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Said was preparing to inspect the troops. His army was already close to the border and could cross the border to attack the rebels at any time. This time, the Air Force was unable to provide fire support because the missile strike the day before yesterday destroyed the Eagle attack aircraft parked on the runway. The Air Force
paralyzed.
The convoy was ready, with more than ten Land Rover off-road vehicles, all painted in white and with the same license plate number. Said decided which one to take only one minute before getting in the car, in order to prevent assassination.
As the motorcade set off, the soldiers standing guard at the palace stood as straight as a javelin and raised their hands in salute. Although they did not know which car the king was in, or even whether he was in the motorcade, they were only saluting the royal flag stuck at the front of the car.
The convoy was galloping on the desert road, maintaining a speed of 150 kilometers, and the accompanying security personnel had their guns loaded and prepared.
Said was sitting in the fourth Land Rover, closing his eyes and concentrating. His mind was not calm. He was thinking about what to do next. The Chinese are not reliable, and neither are the Americans. If necessary, he will go to London next week.
, trying to bring the British in to muddy the waters.
A Predator drone was flying over the convoy, and the operator controlled the flight of the drone at the CIA Operations Group Command Center in Saudi Arabia, locked onto the fourth Land Rover, and waited for the launch order from the superior.
In the car, the attendant handed the mobile phone to Said and said it was Mr. Thorpe's number.
Said answered, and the two sides chatted for a while. In the end, the king rejected the other party's unreasonable request.
"I think it would be better to put this issue aside for a few days and then discuss it." Said handed the phone back to the attendant, with a contemptuous smile on his lips. His actions were effective, and Thorpe relented.
Thorpe, who made one last attempt, called his CIA partners and told them the situation was irreversible.
At the Saudi base, the operator received the order to launch the missile.
The pylon under the wing of the Predator drone was released, and a Hellfire anti-tank missile roared out, flying towards the convoy on the ground with tongues of flame, accurately hitting the fourth Land Rover, and immediately blew the car into pieces, causing air waves.
The two cars at the front and rear were overturned and fell to the ground. The convoy braked and stopped. The attendants hurriedly took out fire extinguishers and tried to save people, but the flames were soaring into the sky and wreckage was everywhere. It was impossible to save them.
A line of black smoke rose from the desert, and the Predator drone's reconnaissance lens captured the scene, then turned around and flew away.
In the headquarters, a confirmation message was received from the internal line at the front. The target had been cleared. Everyone stood up, celebrated with high fives, turned off their phones, and went out to drink coffee.
When Said was killed, Amir was in the car at the end of the team. He wanted to save people, but was held tightly. He looked at the car in flames and cried loudly. It was a moment of life and death, and he was still crying yesterday.
The father who taught him so much lived and died before his eyes.
When the king died, the plan to inspect the army was naturally terminated. The attendants were afraid of suffering a second round of blows, so they hurriedly took Prince Amir back to the palace.
When the news came out, Colin was in chaos, the young master was in doubt, and everyone was trying to figure out a way out.
Within a few hours, the rebels in southern Iraq got the news that Said had been killed by a missile.
Liu Handong was shocked because this was something he wanted to do but failed to do. After a brief panic, he made a decision and launched a counterattack.
At the same time, a Hercules transport plane landed at Takikati International Airport, and more than a hundred white men disembarked from the plane. These people came to Kuala Lumpur as business personnel from a defense consulting company at the invitation of Minister of Defense Colin.
Lin's, their mission is to train Colin's special forces and police to resist the threat of terrorists.
In fact, these people are mercenaries hired by Thorpe. Now it is no longer possible to expect the US military to intervene directly, nor can we rely on the CIA for everything. It is more reliable to do the key things ourselves.
The mercenaries drove towards the palace in cars, but General Mohammed, who was guarding the palace, did not receive the notice. He had not yet recovered from the bad news of the king's death and his mind was not very clear. He was furious after hearing the news and ordered not to allow it.
Anyone enters the palace.
As soon as Muhammad walked out of the office, he was met by a captain who was unfamiliar to him. He drew his gun and fired three shots. General Muhammad fell in a pool of blood and died with his eyes open.
The guards shot the assassins to death randomly, and the generals from the Ministry of National Defense took over the palace and let the mercenaries in. This was a sudden coup. When the citizens of Takikati woke up, the king had already changed.
Said's heir, Prince Amir, is Prince Fahd's younger prince, little Prince Mohammed, who is only ten years old this year.
Prince Amir is missing and is said to have been killed.
The citizens of Colin have been numbed by coups that happen every now and then. There are continuous wars, water and electricity outages, and living standards have plummeted. Many wealthy people have taken their property to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and migrant workers have also left to go to other places.
In Middle Eastern countries, people work to earn money, and out of ten rooms in Takikati, nine are empty, turning it into an empty city.
The newly enthroned little prince, surrounded by ministers, went to the army base for inspection. He was still a child and didn't understand anything. The actual person in charge of Colin was the former Minister of Defense Abbas, who was a civil servant.
Yi De's classmate when he was studying in London has always been unknown and acted as a behind-the-scenes hero. Now he was appointed as prime minister of Colin's cabinet.
The inspection was very unsuccessful. There were a large number of deserters in the army. No one wanted to fight without knowing anything. Even those who stayed had extremely poor combat effectiveness. Judging from their mental state, they could not go to the battlefield.
Abbas was very worried because Colin's treasury could no longer come up with money to fight the war. The past two years had been too hard and the family's wealth had been depleted. Even the royal family didn't have much money left. Without money, military pay could not be issued.
If you can't buy weapons, you can't guarantee that there will be brave men under heavy rewards.
Fortunately, there is Mr. Thorpe. He has strong financing capabilities and is a very energetic social activist. He worked hard in New York and Washington and finally raised tens of millions of dollars. He immediately used the money to purchase weapons.
Hire more soldiers and join the civil war in Corin.
What troubles Thorpe is that the U.S. government does not seem to want to invest too much energy in Colin. The military has returned to the Asia-Pacific to confront China head-on. On the one hand, it is suppressing Russia in Europe. In the Middle East, Iraq alone is busy enough.
Well, why care about a small and small country?
They didn't care. Thorpe couldn't care less. He had bet all his fortune on this and raised hundreds of millions of dollars in financing. All of it was invested in Colin's bottomless pit. If he couldn't win, it would be difficult to turn around in the rest of his life.
At this time, Liu Handong still didn't know that this war had become a private war between him and Thorpe, but it was just disguised as Colin's civil war. He and Thorpe were faced with the situation, and all their wealth was invested in it.
You can win, but you can't lose. If you win, you will have flowers and wealth, but if you lose, you will be doomed.
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Colin's government troops and rebels no longer have the Bedouin majority, and the fighting backbone has become white and yellow. The scale and level of the battle have also undergone significant changes, from a pickup truck war to a missile war.
Thorp was so wealthy that he developed a detailed battle plan and hired retired US military commanders and non-commissioned officers, from colonels to sergeants, from tank drivers to helicopter pilots, from cafeteria chefs to SEALs; he also made a list
, purchasing advanced fighter jets, M1 tanks, anti-tank missiles, etc. in the name of Colin's government. He is prepared to use his absolute technological superiority to crush the resistance in the shortest possible time, because the longer the war drags on, the more money will be spent, reaching the critical point.
If you click, this business will no longer be profitable.
The opponents of the resistance army have changed from government forces to mercenaries with super combat effectiveness. They are even a mercenary unit composed of experienced former US military personnel with the highest tactical level in the world. The winner has been decided before the fight. Liu Han
He is about to face a desperate situation, but he has one advantage, and that is time. Thorpe will need at least three months to achieve these goals.
But Liu Handong also has a fatal disadvantage, that is, he has no money.
The war is a waste of money, and six million dollars won't last long.
He had borrowed all the money he could, and it was no longer enough to sell the iron. Liu Handong was under great mental pressure, and gray hair appeared on his temples. Just when he was at a loss what to do, he received a call from the United States.
"Brother, I heard that you need funds, I still have some here." This was Shu Fan's voice after a long absence.