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In Berbera, an important port city in northern Somalia, the atmosphere suddenly changed a little for more than a day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

First of all, in the city of Berbera, there are suddenly many foreigners, and these people basically have one characteristic, that is, they often go to the port terminal to observe for a while.

Curious citizens, on television in the evening, finally learned the reason for the change in Berbera, the country's navy seized an American freighter in the Gulf of Aden today, which will arrive in the port of Berbera tomorrow morning.

The next morning, the military was the first to make a move, and an infantry battalion stationed nearby and local police units entered the dock first, defended the key point of the pier, and looked at a heavily armed soldier, and the curious people finally swarmed there, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is ten thousand empty alleys.

Berbera is the largest port in northern Somalia, and the citizens here have seen enough, but this is the first time that many people who have no jobs have come to watch the excitement around the pier. For them, it may not be clear how deep the Navy's seizure of the American freighter and crew is, but they do it simply out of curiosity.

"Report sir, those three U.S. ships are still following." On the missile boat with string number 023, a second lieutenant of the Somali Navy was standing in front of a tall lieutenant colonel with a fierce face and said loudly.

At this moment, the 023 missile boat was escorting the rear of the 'Jewel' freighter, and Kaduff walked outside, picked up the telescope and looked at the sea behind for a while, and finally found a black spot on the sea surface in the northwest corner, which was at least ten kilometers away according to Kadaf's visual inspection.

It seems that the Americans are extremely unwilling, but they do not dare to act rashly. To be honest, in fact, in Kadaf's heart, he was still faintly disappointed with the performance of the American ship. In the past, when he was a pirate, he dared to take a few speedboats and dozens of AKs to rob those cargo ships, and when he encountered the navy of a certain country, he also dared to provoke. Now that he is in the navy, he is too constrained by all aspects, for example, this time, Kadav wants to fight with the Americans, but the above does not allow active provocations, and the Americans are too cowardly in the eyes of Kadaf.

Kadav very much wanted to see the combat effectiveness of the missile boats under his feet and the real strength of the Seagull attack aircraft belonging to the Navy, but the Americans did not give him this opportunity.

"Is this still the 'USS David' frigate?" Kadav put down his binoculars and asked with some regret.

"Yes sir, 23 kilometers northeast of us, there is the American cruiser Anzio, and to the north of the missile cruiser Anzio, there is also an American missile destroyer, about a hundred kilometers away from us."

Kadaf's eyes lit up, and then he shook his head in disappointment. In terms of naval strength, the Somali Navy combined, the real combat effectiveness is not comparable to the three warships of the United States, but it is close to the Somali mainland, Somalia is the home field, and it can be supported by the air force and naval aviation at any time, and the advantages of the two sides are basically wiped out. Unless the United States sends the two aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, the Americans will not make a move with Somalia when they do not have military superiority.

But both the "Enterprise" and the "Nimitz" have missions, and it is impossible to transfer them easily, and in the face of a naval country with only missile boats, it really sends aircraft carriers, and there is really a feeling of cannon hitting mosquitoes.

Looking closer and closer to the port of Berbera, Kadav knew that the mission had finally passed without danger. Since the Americans have no action at sea, they must be thinking of solving this problem by peaceful means, and this is not the duty of him, the captain of the navy.

In Mogadishu, the political center of Somalia, there is indeed a group of people who are actively campaigning for the Jewel freighter, including the British Ambassador to Somalia, Huney.

In fact, the United States and Somalia have always had diplomatic relations, but during the Somali civil war, the United States, like most countries, withdrew from the embassy in Somalia.

This time, in the case of the USS Jewel freighter, after the US political axe had already determined that it could not use force, it could only try by all means to find a suitable lobbyist, and Britain, which has a good relationship with Somalia and is also the 'little brother' of the United States, has become the best choice.

The British ambassador to Somalia, Huney, is a veteran diplomat who is about 50 years old this year, in the prime of a politician. It is said that Somalia's political status in the international community is not high, and the status of the ambassador to Somalia cannot be very high among all ambassadors abroad, but in fact, on the contrary, although the British political axe attaches no equal importance to Somalia as those of the big and powerful countries, it has also paid great attention.

For countries that were once British colonies, the British political axe attaches more importance to maintaining the 'deep friendship' between the two sides, so after the formation of the new Somali political axe, the British political axe sent a mature and capable diplomat like Huni as an ambassador. And during his tenure as ambassador to Somalia, Huni did show unusual diplomatic skills.

Now in Somalia, there are many British enterprises, and many industries have British enterprises involved, and Britain is also one of the main importers of industrial products in Somalia, even more than China. Among them, we have to mention Ambassador Huni, who has achieved these achievements precisely because of his superb diplomatic skills and communication skills, and because of his good relations with the Somali political axe and the top military officials.

However, this time, after receiving instructions from home, Huni felt very tricky.

During his three years as British ambassador to Somalia, Hooney was well aware of the earth-shaking changes that were taking place in the country, not only in terms of social order and economic recovery, but also in other aspects such as politics, the military, the standard of living of the people, and the degree of support for the political axe.

It can be said that after the Barre political axe, more than ten years of civil war led to poverty in the country, and the people could not even solve the problem of food and clothing, and when the material is far from the world, spiritual changes are inevitable.

When your life becomes more and more difficult, and you even have to work hard for a day or abandon your dignity in order to eat a full meal, when you understand how rich and wonderful the outside world is from a few words, your dignity and the inferiority complex hidden in your bones will definitely transform each other.

Self-esteem decreases as life is hard, and inferiority complex is the opposite, especially when meeting foreigners.

But under the leadership of the Somali political axe, many people have returned to rebuild their homes, and the political axe is also actively solving the problems of work and food and clothing for everyone, and when the political axe has defeated the 'enemy' they know well again and again, at this time, the people's support and fanaticism for the new political axe will be like a volcano that has been accumulated for a long time and suddenly erupted, out of control.

Walking all over Somalia, as long as it is a big city, those places that have more contact with the outside world, it is not difficult for you to find that every Somali here is proud of this country, their sense of national honor and national honor is improving day by day, and any political, diplomatic and military victory in Somalia will cause a public carnival.

And the Somali political axe also needs such a 'hot' popular support to bring the country together, burst out with stronger strength, and achieve more results.

At this time, the Somali Navy seized the American cargo ship, combined with the two incidents that happened a few days ago when flight XX123 was shot down by a US ship, it is not difficult for Somalis to see from this that the political axe has a strong sense of revenge against the United States.

Therefore, it will be difficult to get the Somali political axe to release the Jewel at a time when the anger is at its height, and when the public is also concerned about the matter. And the US political axe cannot stand by and watch the 'Jewel' freighter and the dozen or so American crew members on board suffer from prison because of the US political axe.

It's not that the British political axe doesn't know that this lobbyist is not good, and it may not be a human being inside and out. But the British political axe can't help it. Now Britain's voice in the international community is getting smaller and smaller, especially when there was a glorious 'unfallen empire', when the British Empire was a great name in the world, but now, it has been reduced to being a junior brother to a junior, so how can those proud John Bulls be embarrassed?

With the rise of a new type of power, the status of an old empire like Britain in the international community is getting worse and worse, if it is not still occupying the position of a permanent member, if it is not for the fact that Britain is an old industrial power, the foundation is still very strong, and now Britain will definitely be pulled down as one of the top countries in the world.

So at this time, Britain needs to regain its former glory, actively participate in international affairs, demonstrate and prove Britain's existence, exert Britain's influence and enhance Britain's international prestige, the British are using their descendant country, the United States, to seek the interests of Britain, and at the same time feel jealous and alienated from this country. Because the British don't want to have the sign of 'American little brother' on their heads forever and swagger in the international market.

This time the dispute between Somalia and the United States, the British intervened. This is an opportunity for them to participate in international affairs, exert influence and increase their prestige, so no matter how difficult it is, the British political axe must be done.

In the past few years in Somalia, Ambassador Huni has been very clear that this matter is big and small, and as long as one person is solved, then this matter can be easily resolved, and this person is the well-deserved big boss of Somalia, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces, Li Mo.

However, he is only a diplomatic ambassador, and the most contacts are with the officials of the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the political axe, but the relationship with military dignitaries is mediocre, after all, any country is very taboo about contact with military dignitaries and foreign personalities, unless it is a formal occasion, but it is very difficult to enhance the 'friendship' between each other on a formal occasion.

Ambassador Huni wants to connect with Li Mo, but he does not have the power to contact Li Mo directly, which makes him have to find an intermediary, in Somalia, there are not many classes to be able to talk to Li Mo and make Ambassador Huni invite, think about it, Ambassador Huni thought of a person, this person is the Vice President of Somalia, and is expected to succeed Yusuf as Vice President of Somalia at the end of this year.

(To be continued)