Sakov's face was ashen. He had just made good progress, but in the blink of an eye the other party turned against him and caused the death of a hostage. Thinking of the president's instructions on the phone when he appointed him as the general manager, Sakov felt that he was under great pressure. He was now
I finally understand why the president has always had a tough attitude towards terrorists.
The attitude shown by the terrorists is very tough. This is the usual method of terrorists, using the death of hostages to continuously create pressure on the rescuers.
Usually terrorists will also plant bombs on or around hostages, which is consistent with the practice of these Chechens.
But their next actions made Owen feel that they had no intention of leaving alive. Perhaps their purpose was just to get Russia to release those Chechens, or maybe even these were all a pretense.
The situation is really suspicious. The other party didn't even mention that there was a bomb planted in the gymnasium. This is very strange. If it were an ordinary robber, he would at least use this to threaten the Russian side not to attack by force, but the other party did not mention this at all.
stubble.
Owen felt that people outside must know what was going on inside, but what method should be used, and then he remembered the bug on his body.
"Can you hear me? Eavesdropper, I don't care who you are? The FSB or someone else..."
"The situation is urgent now. I'm at Beslan Middle School, and I'm among the hostages. I have important information. You'd better record it, and then notify Alpha and the signal flag outside..."
Owen seemed to be talking to himself, which confused the hostages and parents around him, but no one cared about it in this case.
Somewhere in Beslan, several members of the eavesdropping team looked at each other, and then looked at the team leader. The team leader frowned, exposed? The other party has long known about their existence. No wonder there has been no valuable intelligence recently.
Beslan Middle School was attacked by terrorists, and an unknown number of students and parents were taken hostage. They knew about this incident. After all, the incident had spread throughout Beslan, and almost one-seventh of the male population in Beslan was
They all rushed there with guns on their backs.
They also know that the surveillance target has become a hostage. After all, they can hear everything that happens around Irving. Now I am afraid they know the weapons, equipment and number of terrorists in more detail than the anti-terrorism forces outside the stadium.
It's just that the surveillance target suddenly talks to them directly. What does he want to do?
Owen didn't care whether those people heard it or not, and continued: "Listen, the robbers speak Chechen. There are 33 people in number, and there are two female robbers among them. It is not ruled out that there are other robbers among the hostages..."
"The robbers were all wearing NATO standard camouflage and were not masked. This proves that they are not afraid of being wanted at all, or they have no intention of getting out alive..."
"All communication equipment has been confiscated..."
"Each of them is equipped with an AK, two PKMs and an unknown number of RPGs..."
"They are well prepared. Everyone is equipped with gas masks and two chemical protection dogs..."
"In addition, they also have mines. I don't understand the specific model, but they look like Russian goods..."
"The hostages were scattered on both sides of the stadium. Parents and children were not separated. There were about 1,000 people..."
"Under the south wall of the gymnasium, there are one robber standing in the third, seventh, ninth and fifteenth blocks from east to west, and under the ventilator respectively. To the north are the fourth, fifth, eleventh and fifteenth blocks.
There is one robber standing under each block, and there are two under the broken glass..."
"There are three firepower points at 3 o'clock, 5 o'clock, and 9 o'clock in the gymnasium, two of which are machine guns..."
"They have installed explosives everywhere in the stadium. There are a lot of them. All the detonators are concentrated at the feet of one person. I can't see the specific way of detonating them..."
"There should be an American pregnant woman named Monica Weiss outside the school. You should know her identity. She should be able to provide some help..."
"If the commander on site receives this information, please let me know by playing the Russian national anthem on the school loudspeaker."
Owen told all the information he observed one by one, hoping that the people over there could inform the on-site commander.
Within the monitoring team, the leader of the team heard everything Owen said. Some of the information was very important and could play a vital role in rescuing the hostages.
The leader of the group said to his subordinates: "Have you recorded everything just now?"
"Yes."
The subordinate nodded and pointed to the tape machine that was still spinning.
The leader said: "Take the tape and follow me, Seryozha, you continue to monitor, if he sends any news again, notify me immediately..."
Now that the target is aware of their existence, their monitoring is meaningless. Now that the situation is urgent, and the other party is willing to help, he must pass this precious information to the commander of the hostage situation as soon as possible.
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Outside Beslan Middle School, the place was already in chaos, and the police cordon could not stop anyone, especially the anxious parents of students who came with weapons.
The intelligence leader found the Alpha station and showed his ID to an Alpha: "I want to see the commander of this incident."
A minute later he was brought to Sarkov.
"You want to see me?"
Sakov wondered why the FSB people wanted to see him at this time.
The intelligence leader said nothing, but turned on the recorder: "Listen..."
The information Owen just said came out of the loudspeaker one after another, and Sakov's eyes became brighter and brighter the more he listened.
He looked at the intelligence leader, who said: "The person who provided the intelligence is our surveillance target. The other party is now a hostage. He is the former head of the American anti-terrorism team and a professional. His intelligence should have reference value..."
Sakov nodded. Not only did it have reference value, it was simply too valuable. This information would be very useful for their subsequent rescue.
"Leave me your phone number. If the other party passes on new information, I will notify you as soon as possible..."
The intelligence leader took down Sakov's phone number and left. Sakov listened to the intelligence just now several times. He also found it strange that there were bombs everywhere in the house. Monica was also mentioned in it.
Isn't she the lady who just provided the coordinates of the mine?
Sakov also roughly guessed Monica's identity, but these have nothing to do with him. His mission is to rescue the hostages at the minimum cost. Yes, that is what the president said. It is not zero casualties, but the minimum cost.
With more than 1,000 hostages, the president knew that zero casualties was simply impossible.
"Fuze, find the lady just now."
Fuze is Alpha Team's hostage rescue expert and his best assistant.
"Sir, I suggest that the person in charge of the Moscow Hotel be called in as well."
"Then hurry up."
Later, Fuze found Monica and Baleleka. He already knew from Fuze the power of Balaleika in the local area, and he needed the cooperation of this person if he wanted the parents of the students not to cause trouble.
"Hello, please listen to this recording..."
After listening to the recording, Monica praised Owen's wit. She opened her mouth and said: "The locations of the hostages and robbers have been roughly explained. I suggest that your people pay close attention, especially the firepower points. Snipers are on standby 24 hours a day." Baleleka
That side will calm the emotions of the residents of the town. In order to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, we'd better agree on an identification mark. The most difficult person to deal with is the person who controls the bomb..."
After listening, Sakov looked at Fuze, and Fuze said: "We can wrap our arms with white cloth strips to distinguish ourselves from the enemy."
Monica didn't have any good opinions, especially about bombs. From the intelligence point of view, all remote-controlled detonations were concentrated at the feet of one person, but she didn't know whether it was a loose-release type or a press-release type.