Africa Chapter 10: The Shocking Incident in Cairo (8)
As soon as he walked out of the conference room, an orderly came up to Defense Minister Mohammed Said, gave a military salute, and reported loudly, "Sir, this is urgent information that has just been sent to you. ”
Minister Mohammed Saeed suddenly chuckled in his heart, and he had a vague sense of foreboding, could it be that something had happened again? After receiving the information handed over by the orderly, just a glance, the head of the defense department instantly looked ugly, grabbed the love newspaper in his hand tightly, clenched his hands tightly, trembled slightly, and the green tendons on his hands and faces bloomed.
"What's wrong?" The Deputy Prime Minister, who was walking behind the minister, couldn't help but ask when he saw the appearance of the Minister of Defense.
"Nothing." After hesitating, the minister still didn't say the content of the intelligence, forget it, let's report the news directly to the president.
"Oh, it's fine." Seeing that the minister was reluctant to answer, the deputy prime minister knew that the question might be quite sensitive, so he did not ask again.
After hesitating, the minister turned around and went back, the problem was too big, and he was just a small defense minister, and he couldn't resist it.
Come to the door of President Mubarak's office.
"Is there anything else you need, Mr. Minister?" The guard, seeing the Minister of Defense returning again, asked.
"I have something to ask the president." Mr. Minister rubbed his hands, feeling that the matter was very scratching, how could he tell His Excellency the President?
"Oh, then you wait a minute, I'll go and report it." After the guard finished speaking, one of them pushed the door in, and after a while came out of the president's office, and made a gesture of please, "Your Excellency the President, please come in." ”
"Oh," Mr. Minister nodded, and walked in with his feet raised.
"I'll talk about it tomorrow when it's so late, and I'll want you to come again," President Mubarak put down the papers he was working on, stood up with a smile, and instructed the guards on the side, "Go, make two cups of coffee." After speaking, he raised his hand and motioned for Mr. Minister to sit down, "Why do you want to make a special trip so late?" ”
"Let's take a look at this information," Mr. Minister did not reply, but handed over the information in his hand.
After carefully reading this information, President Mubarak's brows furrowed into pimples, and he was silent for a while, and after a long while, he gently put the information on the coffee table and asked the minister's opinion, "I am not very clear about military matters, you are an expert in this area." In your opinion, which country's soldiers have this ability? ”
"I thought," said Mr. Minister, after a pause, carefully preparing to phrase the wording, an answer so important that it might well lead to a rivalry between the two countries, "of all the nations hostile to us, apart from those who are not strong, are Israel, the M, and the great powers of Europe. Although the combat effectiveness of Israel's Wild Boy Special Forces is very strong, it is clear that compared with the combat effectiveness of this force, at least in terms of some available data, it is still a little worse. And the combat style is not very similar either. ”
President Mubarak nodded in agreement, then made a gesture for Mr. Minister to continue.
Mr. Minister nodded, "Next, let's talk about the special forces of European countries, although their combat capabilities are very strong, but the relationship with us has been easing day by day over the years, and the ties between all parties are getting closer and closer, as far as the current situation is concerned, I don't see any reason to use special forces to fight against us." ”
"I agree with that." President Mubarak agreed, saying that since he came to power, he has devoted himself to developing friendly and cooperative relations with various countries, the domestic economy has developed to a great extent, international cooperation has become increasingly close, and some countries that were previously antagonistic to each other have also begun to come into contact with each other, and relations have eased considerably, especially in relations with European countries, and he has made tremendous progress.
"In the end, the only thing that is questionable is country M," Mr. Minister continued, seeing that the president agreed with his opinion, "For a long time, the Suez Canal policy implemented by our country has caused great inconvenience to the deployment of country M's overseas policy, especially the Middle East policy, and country M has also had a deep opinion on our country, and all kinds of small actions behind the scenes have not stopped. ”
"So you said that country M did it?" President Mubarak's fingers unconsciously tapped lightly on the coffee table and asked.
"In my personal opinion," said Mr. Minister cautiously, "it is not really possible in country M. ”
"Oh, what do you say?" President Mubarak asked suspiciously, taking into account various factors, he felt that he was still the most suspicious of country M, and the defense minister went so far as to say that the factor of country M could be ruled out?
"Actually, we can calculate the other way around," said Mr. Minister, "and let's calculate, if country M does this, what is its purpose?" And what are the benefits? ”
After talking for so long, Mr. Minister was also a little thirsty, took two sips of water and drank it unceremoniously, and then continued, "Let's talk about the benefits he can get by doing this, but we can think like this, no matter what his purpose is, if country M really does this, then its only end is to completely anger us, not to mention those words that are heard by the people, in fact, in the future, all the policies of country M in the Middle East will not get any cooperation from us, and they will gain far more than they lose, I don't believe that a shrewd country like country M can't settle this account. So what is the purpose of country M? Just to teach us a lesson? It seems that many methods are much better than this one, and it can be said that this method is the worst of all. ”
President Mubarak nodded in agreement with Mr. Minister's words. "Since it's not country M, it's not Israel, it's not those countries in Europe, then who will do it?"
Mr. Minister smiled wryly and shrugged his shoulders and shook his head helplessly.
This incident has also become a major unsolved mystery in the world, and everyone did not expect that this was just a consequence of stealing things that were discovered.