304. Chapter 16 (2)
"For Lisa's tracking, the clues ended when they walked out of the parking building, and the mysterious woman also disappeared after leaving the parking building, and we are currently concentrating on the relevant areas that Lisa may go to investigate, focusing on Lisa's hometown of Syria, and also made a request for help to some relevant countries, and some new clues have been found and are being actively verified."
"And the latest intelligence shows that Lisa is currently very likely to have arrived in Syria, which is her homeland, but it is not clear whether she is going to settle there or is another trick, all these clues are being further carefully investigated and tracked, the only thing that is certain is that Faisal is not there with his wife and children now, he went to another place that we don't know."
"Let's talk about Faisal's whereabouts after leaving the Thunderbird company, according to our investigation and inquiry of relevant personnel, Faisal found that Faisal had intentionally or unintentionally declared that he wanted to go to sea with his friends for a vacation some time before the holiday, but we then investigated almost all the people who had contact with Faisal's life circle, no one had this arrangement or indirectly had this travel plan, and very few people who had heard the news, the source of the news was the same person, that is, Faisal was in different environmental conditions, Revealed to them, these people who knew that Faisal had this plan, almost all of them were employees within the Thunderbird company, which was also a planned plan, and Faisal was preparing for future actions. ”
"The pretext of going to sea for a vacation cleverly delayed the vigilance of the security department of the Thunderbird company, so that they could not link Faisal's failure to return to work in time with the behavior of running away and defecting in the first place, and the rapid change of the sea situation and poor communication made everyone's initial judgment that he could not rush back in time due to an unexpected situation, which bought Faisal a few precious days to get rid of our tracking."
Eric took a sip of water and continued:
"We checked all the steamship companies in the vicinity that had this kind of business, and we didn't find any records about Faisal's registration and appointment, and we couldn't find any trace of Faisal after we retrieved all the surveillance data of those places, which proves our judgment, which is also a trick."
"What we know is that Faisal disappeared from public view after he left the company that night, and for this reason, we called up a lot of surveillance data on the roads that he might have passed, which was not difficult to find, and we quickly found Faisal's trace, and along his trajectory, we traced it to the airport, where he left the city on the last flight of the night."
Surveillance footage shows surveillance footage of Faisal driving and after arriving at the airport and before boarding.
"To be sure, there is nothing unusual about this part of the trip, here we saw the briefcase he carried when he came out of the company, and checked in smoothly, the situation is after he arrives at the destination, please pay attention to the following picture."
"This is the surveillance footage we retrieved from the airport where he arrived, Faisal stayed in the rest area for a long time and was not in a hurry to leave, which is very abnormal, no passenger will stay at the airport after arriving at the destination, unless you are a transit passenger, but the investigation shows that Faisal's ticket is not the case, so Faisal's behavior is an abnormal performance, until the appearance of this person gave us the answer."
"We have already seen this person just now, it is the Jawad who saw off Faisal's wife at the airport, he also appeared there shortly after Faisal arrived at this airport, but the two did not have direct contact, at least these surveillance images we see now have not been able to catch the picture of the contact between the two, but we have found the figures of the two in this area, that place is a necessary area to the bathroom, so the most likely contact between Faisal and Jawad happened in the bathroom."
"We then checked all the surveillance records from the period before and after, and we found that two people were found in the self-storage area for small items, the two of them had been here, and the time that came out of the middle was the time when the two of them appeared in the bathroom area at the same time, and this time Faisal can be seen taking some things from a locker there and leaving the briefcase he was carrying there, and then never saw the two return here."
"An hour later, we found Faisal at the gate to check in, it was an international flight to Yemen, this route has only two regular flights a week, which proves from one side that every step of Faisal's escape has been carefully designed and arranged, but we could not find him from the passenger list, which means that he left the United States from the airport with a new identity, and the person who provided him with this new identity can only be this Jawad."
"What progress have you made since Faisal arrived in Yemen?" Curt asked.
"So far, there is no progress, because the airport security facilities there are not very complete, the only few surveillance images make it difficult for us to find the complete whereabouts of Faisal when he arrived there, only the figure of him leaving near the exit was found, it is also very unclear, a surprise gain is that we found the owner of the car he was riding, this is an Iranian living in Yemen, it is he who provided the airport pick-up service for Faisal, our staff there has inquired about this person through special channels, And he also provided us with the name of the person who rented his car, and this person was Saran. ”
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Two days later, Erik, who had been struggling to find Faisal's whereabouts, walked into the office of Chief Curt with the latest briefing.
"Sir, our intelligence agents in Syria have found Saran's traces, and he should have gone there at this point in time only for one purpose, that is, to assist Lisa to join Faisal, given that after the Faisal family arrived in these countries in the Middle East, the intelligence officers of Iraq were responsible for receiving and ensuring safety, we are almost certain that Faisal's final destination should be Iraq, which makes the problem very tricky, once they successfully infiltrate Iraq, it will be difficult for us to take further arrest operations."
Eric said worriedly.
"It's obvious, so we can't let Faisal and what he's carrying into that country under any circumstances." Director Curt certainly understands the power of this.
"There has also been news from the CIA recently, and several intelligence clues from Danny, the old slippery head in charge of the CIA's Middle East affairs, show that in the recent period, the director of the Middle East Affairs Office of Iraq, the 'executioner' Moussa Nabipur, has been active very frequently recently, and has traveled back and forth to Syria, Pakistan, Oman, Yemen and other countries several times, and the last time they monitored his whereabouts was in Muscat, the capital of Oman, and that time it was shown that he had visited a businessman specializing in arms smuggling, named Rahim White."
"It is reported that this man named Rahim has just loaded a whole shipload of arms and some in-demand items from Ukraine, and his final destination should be to transport this shipload of supplies to Pakistan, and the buyer should be an armed force with a military background in Pakistan, and our intelligence agency has checked his shipment records through Interpol, which are all conventional weapons, and they also have normal sales contract procedures, so we cannot detain him."
"Eric, I think you and your colleagues are going to the Middle East for a while, this time Faisal's defection has alarmed many people, Washington, the military, and the CIA have all moved, and Washington has even directly instructed our departments to strengthen cooperation and find out Faisal's true whereabouts as soon as possible, and now all the places where Faisal may be staying are stared at to death, and the technical department is combing through every suspicious piece of information day and night, so as to be able to unearth some clues."
"At present, it is certain that this is an operation mainly planned by Iran's intelligence services, but this Faisal has not known his whereabouts since he left Yeguo, as if half of the world has evaporated, and his most likely final destination at present should be Iraq, our analysis of Faisal's defection has no political significance, and he is not a spy who has been developed and secretly lurked, he is only doing this in an extreme way to retaliate for the harm done by our army to his family, And it just so happened that the intelligence department of Iraq discovered this opportunity and leveraged the stone of hatred in Faisal's heart at an opportune time. ”
As Eric stated at the case analysis session, Faisal's use of the pretext of going on vacation to sea did buy him and his family valuable time.
The next day, Eric and his two assistants, Stephen and David, boarded an international flight to Saudi Arabia, and on the night they boarded the plane, on a rainy night in the Mediterranean, the group boarded the bulk carrier Rahim on an ordinary fishing boat and sailed in the night towards the scheduled port of Pakistan.
On the eve of returning home after completing their one-year training in Israel, they received a phone call from a military attache at the embassy, informing them to report to an office in Israel where they would make specific arrangements for their trip.
The two, who had long known the background of this office, thought that it was just a routine conversation and inquiry, but what Yifei and Lezi did not expect was that they accepted a special task there, that is, to escort Xiang Wentao, a senior engineer secretly sent by a military industrial unit of the state to engage in scientific research in Israel, to Syria, where the two of them met for the first time Lu Xiaobo, the general coordinator in charge of coordinating this special mission and the leader of the special operation team for this operation.