Chapter 257: Reaction
Interim Cabinet Meeting of the Flag Country.
Your Excellency Prime Minister, with an angry face on his face, looked at Director M of the 16th Division of the CIA, and repeatedly accused the entire CIA of making mistakes in its work, and that such a large-scale terrorist attack had occurred in the territory of the country, and the CIA knew nothing about it beforehand, and reacted so slowly afterwards, which is really a serious dereliction of duty!
After scolding for a while, the prime minister got to the point with a frosty face and asked: "Have you found out the situation now? Who caused this attack and what is their purpose?"
Director M did not change his face and said: "According to the intelligence on the scene, this is a premeditated and purposeful military operation. The opposing side used hundreds of specially trained gunners and used standard weapons including submachine guns, grenades, and rocket launchers. Moreover, the other party's methods were very ruthless and targeted, and they completely cleaned the villa of the Hall family. The people in the villa, there were heavy casualties. ”
When the Prime Minister heard this, his brow furrowed. With the Hall family's reputation and status in the Miqi country, this case is bound to attract great attention, and this is definitely a big challenge for their cabinet.
Director M paused, but continued: "The arms experts in the intelligence bureau have also been sent to investigate, and according to their preliminary inspection, the weapons that attacked the Hall family villa are from a country with a relatively turbulent regime in North Africa, and they are their military standard weapons. The Intelligence Bureau has followed this clue for the first time. However, the situation is not yet clear. According to the intelligence of the Overseas Intelligence Agency, the flow of this batch of weapons has not fully pointed to the terminal, and what can be determined at this time is certain. The Sinai Peninsula black market flows into Egypt. I don't know yet. Who the hell bought these weapons. ”
When the Prime Minister heard this, his face darkened even more. In the territory of the country under his jurisdiction, being "kicked out" like this is undoubtedly a loss of face, and after checking for a long time, he only got a conclusion that "the identity of the other party is not clear for the time being", which is definitely a big joke in his entire political career.
Director M saw the Prime Minister's look on the verge of an outbreak. But it was still so calm, as if the report was not a far-reaching trouble, but rather an ordinary routine: "Based on the deaths and injuries at the scene, the case analysis experts agreed that this was a long-planned and well-planned retaliatory action. The other party's target is the entire Hall family. Therefore, we have set up a special investigation team to follow this direction, and next, we will further investigate the enemies of the Hall family. Focus on investigating all those with major suspicions. ”
"To put it mildly, there's no substance!" the Prime Minister heard. has lost his patience, slammed his fist on the table, and the people around him were all shocked, and the scene was silent, and no one dared to talk.
After a long while, the Prime Minister finally calmed down a little, thought about it, and asked solemnly, "Is it possible to preliminarily determine that this was a terrorist attack?"
Hearing this, Director M suddenly understood in his heart. After being in the officialdom for so long, Director M naturally understands the mentality of some politicians and sees through some of their diplomatic methods and political routines. Clearly, the prime minister's idea was to find an "exit" to divert the public's attention in order to cover up the incompetence of their cabinet.
Director M smiled coldly in his heart, don't try to play these ways in front of him. If something so big happened, if someone had to take on it, it was obvious that the CIA would bear the brunt. Therefore, Director M knew in his heart that at this time, he absolutely could not answer in the tone of the Prime Minister, otherwise, if he really had to be investigated in the future, the 16th Division of the CIA would inevitably become an excuse for them to evade responsibility. It's not uncommon to carry a black cauldron, but this black cauldron is also too big, and they can't easily be detained on this black cauldron that they can't afford to wear.
Moreover, the CIA of the Miqi country operates independently of the cabinet, and the cabinet has no direct jurisdiction over the intelligence bureau, so Director M does not accept the prime minister's set at all, and there is no need to wronged himself in order to slap them.
"There is no evidence at the moment that this was a terrorist attack. Director M's tone was very calm and firm, but he was clearly secretly mocking the Prime Minister's ignorant behavior of looking around to excuse himself.
When the prime minister heard this, he was really stunned, he didn't seem to expect that Director M would not give him this step. But on the bright side, he is not good at making trouble on the spot, and he has nothing to rely on, so he can blame Director M in public for "ignorance of current affairs". Moreover, from Director M's face and eyes, the Prime Minister also noticed that Director M clearly saw through his thoughts, and this feeling of being dissected made the Prime Minister even more embarrassed.
So, the prime minister's face was a little ugly, and as if he had eliminated the embarrassment for himself, he ignored Director M's words, waved his hand at him, and said: "Even so, you can't deny that this is a terrorist attack." Now that the incident cannot be determined, we must raise the level of danger to the highest level in order to protect the safety of the people to the greatest extent. ”
Subsequently, the Prime Minister no longer waited for Director M to refute anything, as if what he said was the truth. I saw him turn his head directly and say to the minister in charge of public relations with the media: "You control public opinion: it is suspected of a terrorist attack, and the government is investigating it." ”
When Director M heard this, he secretly mocked in his heart, but he was not interested in continuing to entangle the so-called truth with the prime minister, so he just stood aside and watched coldly, not saying a word of nonsense.
Not long after, the Prime Minister signaled Director M to leave first and continue to investigate the inside story of the matter. Director M, who was finally ordered to leave the Cabinet, immediately left the meeting site and hurried back to the headquarters of the 16th Division of the Intelligence Bureau.
When Director M returned to the Intelligence Bureau, his subordinates followed his request to investigate the enemies of the Hall family, and progress was made. As a result, as soon as Director M returned to his office, he was given a list of individuals or organizations with motives against the Hall family. According to M's requirements, even those who have had a quarrel with the direct members of the Hall family must be listed one by one. So, this list is extremely exhaustive.
"I want the detailed information of these people!" Director M did not say a word, immediately went through the information of each person or organization, and quickly extracted the few people he thought were the most suspicious from the list, threw them to his subordinates, and ordered them to immediately start an investigation.
On the first page of the list, Yi Xingchen's name is in the first row! (To be continued......)