Chapter 393 393 Anti-Terrorist Operations

Under Saddam's madness, these Iraqi intelligence personnel, who were originally mainly engaged in intelligence gathering work, have become a group of terrorists who have wreaked havoc in several Gulf countries.

These intelligence officers were all trained by the Soviets, and it was a piece of cake to make such things as improvised bombs, and in this era, various countries were not very vigilant against terrorist attacks, so when Iraq launched such a terrorist offensive, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and other countries panicked for a while. Even the US military and troops from other countries who have already entered the theater of operations are very nervous.

Four British soldiers and a liaison officer of the US military were out of the camp in a jeep to run errands, and they were hit by a Soviet-made mine on the way, and the five people did not survive, which made people feel even more shameless, and the place where the attack took place was several hundred kilometers from the rear of the Iran-Saudi border.

When the multinational force began to form a defensive line, the US military was selfish, because at the beginning they were worried that the Iraqis might attack, and the US troops that had not been assembled were likely to face annihilation, so the US military took advantage of the structure of the parallel command of the multinational force, so that the Arab coalition forces and the French were at the forefront of the border between Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, while the troops of the United States, Britain and even China and other countries were dragged in the defense zone in depth and were relatively safe.

But no one thought that what they thought was a safe place would be the first to be attacked.

The US military urgently demanded from the Saudi side that Saudi Arabia conduct a large-scale search and arrest of terrorists in its territory, and at the same time contacted the commanders of the multinational forces, hoping to gather the strength of the special forces of various countries to carry out anti-terrorism work.

Although the number and scale of the various terrorist attacks that occurred in the areas where the multinational forces were stationed were not very large, the psychological pressure on ordinary soldiers was also very great, and the command did not want such non-combat attrition, which was very unfavorable to the subsequent planning of the multinational forces.

In order to meet the counter-terrorism needs of the multinational forces, the Chinese side dispatched a capable dragon breath team and counter-terrorism experts from the Strategy Bureau to Saudi Arabia to participate in this joint counter-terrorism operation. In fact, the prerequisite and the greatest amount of tasks for any anti-terrorist activities are in the early stage of intelligence support, and only when the terrorists are located and their plots and goals are understood, can there be a chance to counteract. Therefore, the United States pulls the elite special forces of various countries to engage in anti-terrorism, but in fact, the deterrent effect is much greater than the actual effect.

But now that they are part of this operation, the Chinese side wants to do as well as possible.

Yu Shenji, an intelligence officer of the Strategy Bureau, made a special trip to Saudi Arabia to do this work, and he did not join the so-called joint investigation team at the invitation of the United States. In his opinion, a group of spies from various countries, language barriers, just working together is fatal, and it is impossible to produce results, so he led a team from the Strategy Bureau to carry out the mission alone.

The Saudi side is also relatively cooperative, giving a large amount of intelligence authority. Some information on suspected Iraqi intelligence agents in the possession of Saudi intelligence is very helpful in locating potential terrorists. It's just that Yushenji complains a little about the roughness of Saudi intelligence units, not only are there few hard goods, but there are often mistakes and omissions.

"There are only a few raw materials that can make improvised explosives, unless these terrorists will store a large number of them in advance, so if they want to launch the next attack, then they will buy a large number of explosives raw materials, and we can start from the source, monitor any Saudi place where these products are sold, and monitor any suspicious elements." ”

This is actually not a smart approach, and the workload will be relatively large, but considering that Saudi Arabia is a country with a small population, the area with more commercial activities is actually very concentrated, so it is relatively easy to operate.

Sure enough, on the fourth day after the start of the operation, the fish god machine found the suspect. They buy a lot of explosives in different shops, and they're pretty smart, and they take turns going to different shops to buy them, and each time the amount doesn't seem large, but it adds up to a lot of money. They thought they wouldn't be discovered, but the fish god had set a net and pulled them out of the crowd.

The Dragon's Breath team led by Su Tian secretly surrounded the stronghold of these terrorists in Medina on a dark and windy night. As a brave and good special forces force on the battlefield, Su Tian and his teammates participated in this kind of anti-terrorist operation for the first time, but they did not careless, sometimes the anti-terrorist operation will be more unexpected than the war. Only 10,000 care can be foolproof.

Su Tian turned his head and made a few gestures to his teammates, and the white horse Ajia walked to the door of the Arab building with his waist and pressed a blasting device against the door panel. Su Tian saw that he was done, then leaned against the open window, raised a hand, counted down with his fingers, and then threw a flash shock bomb into it. There was a bang, white light and an ear-piercing explosion, and at the same time, the door was blasted open, and the heavily armed Dragon's Breath team broke in.

The Dragon's Breath team with night vision goggles quickly located the few guys who were stabbed in the eyes by the white light, and at the same time were dazed by the violent explosion. However, due to the location, one of the terrorists did not lose the ability to resist, and immediately grabbed the AK-47 on the table, trying to shoot at the Dragon's Breath team members who rushed in.

Niu Jian held an eagle shotgun and shot a deer bullet with a bang, instantly beating the terrorist's chest and abdomen into a bloody blur, and he could no longer threaten everyone.

There was a mess in the room and there were some things, which were the improvised bombs that the terrorists were making, and they were also stolen.

Li Ying tied up several people with plastic handcuffs, and said with a lingering meaning: "Let us do such a task, in fact, it is really overkill, like we have determined that there are only these terrorists in this house, and there is no one else, so we should send drones to destroy them." ”

Shangguan Xi shook his head and said: "This is impossible, this is Saudi Arabia, not our country, and it is not easy to use drones to bomb other people's houses on other people's land." And although it is not a downtown area, there are some people who live here, and if something goes wrong and hurts the innocent, it will be difficult to deal with. ”

Captain Su Tiandao: "UAVs are too hasty in dealing with attack targets, and many times they may cause collateral damage, we can't ignore this, and the use of military force in other countries' airspace and territory is too important." ”

Li Ying waved his hand and said, "If it were a Yankee, I wouldn't think so much." His guess was right, and on another plane, the Americans are madly obsessed with using drones for counter-terrorism activities, and say the results are very good. However, there are many moral issues and spin-offs in the use of drones, such as the US bombing of a village in Yemen, claiming that there is a group of terrorists there, but they are actually bombing locals who are having a wedding, and the Americans often strike without verifying the credibility of their intelligence sources, causing significant damage. Those Arabs who lost their loved ones then threw themselves into the cause of terror, and it can be said that the Americans turned them into terrorists. This is also the main reason why counter-terrorism is the more anti-terrorism is more and more fearful.

For example, the terrorist gang defeated by Su Tian's dragon's breath team was actually not a direct Iraqi intelligence agency personnel, but a peripheral member recruited by them, and the Iraqi side offered a reward in this operation, so that a group of outlaws with no lower limit were willing to launch several small-scale terrorist attacks for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Even so, there were not many groups that actually carried out terrorist activities, and after severe crackdowns, the multinational force eliminated five or six terrorist groups and destroyed several terrorist activities that had not yet taken place, and basically controlled Iraq's subterfuge. Of course, Saddam Hussein wanted to use a multi-pronged and multi-point campaign to hold these Gulf countries and Western countries hostage, but he did not have much power in his hands, and when he found that many of the nails buried in other countries had been pulled out, Saddam could no longer accept such losses, so he personally called off the terrorist attack.

During this period, there were nine terrorist attacks, resulting in 119 casualties, the vast majority of whom were ordinary people.

When the multinational force interrogated the prisoners and learned that the culprit behind all this was Saddam, and also guessed that he was trying to use terrorist activities to delay the pace of the multinational force and even dismantle the multinational force, the United States immediately accelerated the United Nations Security Council resolution on the use of force against Iraq.

On 20 November, the United Nations adopted ahead of schedule the resolution proposed by the United States to issue an ultimatum to Iraq, and at the same time, the content of the resolution was also changed, with Saddam Hussein withdrawing his troops from Kuwait before the end of 1990 and compensating for a series of war losses. In addition, the time for the ultimatum has also been changed to a month, and by January 31 at the latest, Saddam Hussein must surrender to the United Nations multinational force.

At the same time, because China and the United States announced to the outside world that it was Iraq and Saddam Hussein who planned a series of recent terrorist activities, it also caused an international cry of attack and crusade against Saddam's regime.

Before the multinational forces could launch an offensive, an enraged Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi artillery on the Kuwait-Saudi border to launch a sustained artillery attack on the multinational forces stationed on the outermost defensive line.