Chapter 339: Getting Started
The strength that a collective with money, power, and manpower can exert is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary drug trafficking groups, armed groups, and even international organizations.
Take Interpol as an example, they have less than $10 million a year, what can they do?
The FBI spends one billion dollars a year, a hundred times that of Interpol.
On TV, Interpol is portrayed as omnipotent, as if any big case can be solved through them, but in reality, Interpol is just an intelligence exchange center.
When this organization was first established, it was mainly to establish a worldwide police cooperation organization to carry out international arrest of murderers.
The ideal is full, the reality is cruel.
From the very beginning of its existence, the organization faced serious underfunding. This organization does not intervene in any political, military, religious, and ethnic issues, and certainly does not take on non-transnational cases.
Their main purpose is to protect the safety of the people and to investigate international terrorist activities, arms, smuggling, and all kinds of illegal crimes.
They also have a special department to fight crime, but because of the lack of funds, many times, they simply cannot be counted on.
Because their funds are provided by the United Nations, and the United Nations itself often fails to collect its dues, how can there be money for them?
Now the annual expenditure is less than 10 million US dollars, only 1,000 of them are counted, and each person needs 8,000 US dollars a year's salary, and 8 million is needed, and the rest of the money has to be used for office work and exchanges with various countries, where is the money?
Sharing information with other countries is the main task of Interpol, and it should take precedence over case handling.
In order to survive, Interpol has to be reduced to a knife in the hands of capital, in fact, whoever gives money listens to whomever he wants.
Nominally, they are not subject to political influence and will not obey the orders of any country, but in fact they have become the playthings of capital.
Of course, they also have a role.
In addition to sharing information with member states, INTERPOL has one of its most tangible powers, which is to issue circulars.
The Red Bulletin has been played up by the outside world as legendary, but in fact, the Red Notice is not mandatory. Interpol only releases data on key offenders to other Member States on behalf of the requesting State and assists States in locating suspects.
The police authorities of each Member State have considerable autonomy over how to deal with it.
Why? Because Interpol doesn't have any money, they send out an action team, don't they spend money?
Fried, who has worked in Interpol for fifteen years, knows very well the way Interpol does things, and even the way many important people do things.
He wasn't afraid that he would be noticed by Interpol, and they didn't have that strength.
It is precisely because he is well aware of this that Fried is well aware of how capable Jonas is.
A man who can make money and can also make money with his partners, Jonas actually has amazing power.
What's more, there is more than one alliance of interests behind him.
Among his partners are not only heads of state, royal families, and big conglomerates, but also drug trafficking organizations, local forces, and armed forces.
As long as Jonas can make money, he will always stand firmly at the top of the pyramid of society.
So, this opportunity introduced by Ivan, he knew he had to seize it firmly.
At least, he will not worry about the safety of his family in the future, and he will not have any worries.
What he didn't know, of course, was that in later generations, Interpol would establish financial partnerships with a number of multinational corporations, institutions and governments in order to raise money.
INTERPOL signed a cooperation agreement with FIFA, under which INTERPOL helped FIFA fight match-fixing, and FIFA funded Interpol with 20 million euros over a 10-year period.
Tobacco organizations donate 15 million euros, and Interpol works with them to combat tobacco smuggling.
Interpol also works with 29 of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to combat counterfeit drugs, with an annual funding of 1.5 million euros.
There is no shortage of this kind of cooperation, and Interpol only depends on this way to survive.
This kind of public-private partnership that is not controlled by the government, but is subject to capital, makes Interpol to a large extent a lackey of capital.
He made the right choice.
Fried and Piceno had flown from New York to Dallas, and this time their identities had changed.
Piceno became an artist who was going to Dallas for an art exhibition, and Fried became his manager.
Domestic flights are not strictly checked, and their forged identities can be said to be "real" documents, and no one can find out at all.
During his time at Interpol, Fried was an expert in the identification of documents from all over the world, and all the documents he produced could be faked and authentic.
Because of this, almost no killer would refuse his solicitation.
When there is no computer network to connect to the world, the "real" document is a new identity.
What's more, Fried is a veteran who thinks carefully and does things without leaving a trace.
When they arrived in Dallas, they rented a high-end Ford pickup, the largest car in the Southwest, and went unnoticed.
Subsequently, based on the information provided by Plov, they began to conduct on-site surveys along the oil pipeline of the Phillips Petroleum Company.
In the fifties and sixties, Phillips discovered two oil fields in Alaska, and in the seventies, the first oil well in the North Sea oil field was discovered, and the oil crisis led to the rapid development of Phillips.
By the 80s, Phillips had developed into an integrated oil company integrating exploration, extraction, transportation and petrochemical.
In Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, Phillips has built 20,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipelines.
And Fried's target this time is a certain pressurization station of the Phillips oil pipeline.
The role of the pressurization station in the oil pipeline is to allow the oil or natural gas inside the pipeline to be transmitted forward through pressurization.
Without a pressurization station, the oil inside the pipeline will not move at all.
Blowing up a pressurized station is a little less than the loss from an explosion at an oil refinery. But there are too many workers in the refinery, and the pressurization station has only a dozen staff at most, and the monitoring personnel of the large pressurization station will not exceed 100.
They arrived in New Mexico from Dallas, returned to Dallas, and headed north into Oklahoma.
Eventually, they arrived at Phillips' largest refinery in Sweeney, a small town south of Houston, and surveyed most of the pipelines.
"Fried, have we chosen our target?"
"In order to facilitate their departure from Porzin, the Albuquerque booster station in New Mexico should be the most suitable, but I'm still hesitant because the best place to start should be here. ”
On the map, Fried's finger points to the location of Moore, a small town south of Oklahoma.
Piceno remembered that the booster station there was right next to the town, and after the explosion, it was easy to enter the city and then go into hiding.
Armenia is vast and sparsely populated, and the more remote the place, the more vigilant the people are, which is not conducive to absconding.
A week has passed since they decided on their goals, and by this time, the news that Jonas is going to be engaged has become a hot news story around the world.
Whether it is the scale of the engagement, the guests, the hundreds of thousands of roses and various flower orders purchased from Colombia, the country of flowers, or the whole 5,000 sets of sterling silver tableware ordered from Spain, all of them amazed the melon-eating audience.
The Malaysian government has suspended travel to Langkawi, an island of nearly 500 square kilometres that is currently dedicated to Jonas' wedding.
Famous chefs from all over Malaysia have been invited, and the local Kedah state government has actively served Hoffman's annual meeting and taken the opportunity to promote Langkawi tourism around the world.
At this time, there was still a full month left before December 16, when Jonas and Neuer were engaged, but it was already publicized.
It was not Jonas's will, but, many times, even he couldn't help himself.
This is a marriage between two families, and it is also a combination of monetary resources and human resources.
Behind Jonas, there are various groups that want to take advantage of this opportunity to form their own networks.
After the invitations and engagement invitations were sent out, groups from all walks of life had their own demands, and they also had to take the opportunity to publicize or express their attitudes.
So, the impact is getting bigger and bigger.
Forner and Porzin, as well as Napov, made it to Dallas, where they joined up with Fried and Piceno.
They are divided into two groups, one is Nabov and Porzin, who are responsible for stationary and immobile targets, and Polzin, who is a demolition expert, and Porzin, who is a weapons specialist, are about to blow up the Moore oil pipeline booster station, which is also a small oil storage base.
On the other side are Fried, Piceno, and Forner, and the trio of them are targeting Alan Phillips.
As the president of a multinational group, Alan is very busy, and ordinary people can't even inquire about his whereabouts.
He is in Armenia today, he may go to Europe tomorrow, and he may be in South America the day after tomorrow.
He had his own oil fields all over the world, and he had homes in Houston and Oklahoma, and the average person couldn't come close to his life.
And his daily itinerary is not a secret to his peers.
Fried and they know that Allen, who is now at the Cook Inlet oil field in Alaska, will not return to Oklahoma for a week.
However, November 30 was the birthday of his favorite youngest son, Barron, and that night, he had already booked a place at a famous Italian restaurant in Buffalo River, Houston.
If it was just to kill him, Fried and any of the three of them could easily do it, and a sniper rifle would do the trick.
But now the purpose is not to kill him, but to warn him, so such a task is more difficult to complete.
Both operations were scheduled for November 30, dealing with Allen first and then blowing up the booster station.
The booster station won't run there, but blowing up the booster station first may make Allen deal with an unexpected event and change the itinerary.
Nabov and Porzin arrived in Norman via Mexico and stayed in the farm's warehouse for three days.
During these three days, in addition to surveying the terrain and observing the commuting time and activity range of the workers, they did not leave home.
They didn't worry about the police at all, and in a small town of Mure, there were less than fifty policemen, and there were only six groups of twelve policemen patrolling outside.
Even if they were all concentrated, they would not be in the eyes of Nabov and Porzin.
This mission was very easy for them, because someone was in charge of everything, and they didn't have to worry about eating, drinking, and Lazar, they just had to act.
In the past few days, Nabov has made a hundred high-explosive packages, each of which is one kilogram and has independent electronic detonators.
Until the day of the operation, Nabov carefully installed the electronic detonators one by one and stacked them neatly in the back of a stolen pickup truck.
This is a two-row pickup, and in the back of the pickup, there are all sorts of firearms.
At six o'clock in the evening, it was already dark, they had eaten enough, and when they had finished excreting in the toilet, they started the car and drove out of the farm.
It was only after they got on the road that they turned on their headlights and drove to the booster station three kilometers away.
Houston, 700 kilometers away from them, has also entered the most noisy moment at this time.
Outside the all-white Italian restaurant, Fried and Forner sat in their cars, waiting for the restaurant's Piceno and the signal from hundreds of kilometers away.
Nabov drove the car and stopped outside the gate of the booster station, and Porzin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pulled down the mask that only exposed his nostrils and eyes, and said: "The operation begins, I will be responsible for dealing with the security guards and staff, you have twenty minutes to install explosives." ”
Nabov looked at his watch and joked: "Maybe I need thirty minutes." ”
"It's okay for an hour, as long as you're not afraid of the police. ”
The security guard at the booster station saw the car parked at the door and opened the window of the guard's room. "What do you guys do?"
Porzin, who got out of the car, carried a pistol with a muffler in his hand, two guns and a backpack behind him.
Without saying a word, he aimed his gun at the guard's frightened face, and before he could react, pulled the trigger.
He doesn't like to kill, but the location of the entrance and exit is the most important thing, and he can't take a little risk.
A muzzle appeared on the eyebrows of the first security guard, and the powerful impact of the bullet directly lifted the back of his head, and he fell in response.
The other security guard, who also had nowhere to escape in the security room with windows on three sides, was also stunned and rushed out numbly.
Compared to the first security guard, Borzin took a bullet and completely eliminated him.
He leaned in, slammed the door open, and smashed the switch with the handle of his pistol.
Nabov in the car said: "Remember, you must install explosives in the engine under the supercharger, otherwise it will be easy to fix." ”
Polzin laughed, "You have to remember too. It was enough to install explosives in tanks No. 3 and No. 7, and if they all exploded, I am afraid that the glass of the house within a few kilometers would be lost. ”
Nabov retorted: "I have always been more virtuous than you. ”
He started the pickup truck and drove to the tank farm in the darkness of the night.