Chapter 687: Night in Baghdad
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McFarlane acted very quickly, and after accepting President Reagan's assignment, he assembled his own negotiating team and began boarding the plane to Iraq. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, McFarlane had many choices for his first stop, for example, he could go to Israel or Saudi Arabia, but he chose to go to Iraq, because McFarlane knew that now, the source of this storm in the entire Middle East, in Iraq, as long as Iraq was persuaded to agree to the idea of peace talks, then the mission of his trip would be half successful. Able to take on these big things, Macfarlane is a successful diplomat.
Of course, there is another reason, McFarlane is full of good feelings for the Iraqi side because of the last rescue of his hostages, and he believes that it is very easy to open a breakthrough from here.
However, when he learned that McFarlane had gone to Iraq for the first time, Casey was shocked, but at this time, this diplomatic team with an important mission had already boarded the plane, and he had to hope that the storm in Iraq would not affect his own team.
When the plane landed at Baghdad International Airport, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon local time.
Looking at the familiar scene outside the cabin, McFarlane had a kind feeling in his heart, if it weren't for the Iraqi, he would probably still be living an ape-like life in a cave in Iran!
After stepping off the plane, someone was already coming to greet him at the airport, and McFarlane was on the plane, and he looked through almost all the information about Iraq now. He knew those people, the first of them. It was Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq. It was Cusai who stepped into high positions next to him, and he was Qusai's right-hand man.
"Your visit is very welcome." Tariq saw the American team represented by McFarlane as they stepped off the plane, said, and then extended his right hand.
Originally, it was learned that the U.S. side was going to send a diplomatic team. When the two sides were engaged in the work of peace talks, the Baghdad side discussed for a long time, and most people's opinion was that the Yankees had withdrawn all their technical experts. After stopping all cooperation with the Iraqi side and imposing sanctions on Iraq, then this time Iraq should give the other side some color, for example, send an ordinary secretary to greet them and hang them in the Baghdad International Hotel for a few days.
Tariq, however, objected because it was a diplomatic matter. If Iraq wants to become a great power in the Middle East, then, in these respects, it must not be too stingy, that is not the style of a big country, diplomatically, even if two countries are about to declare war, diplomats are very friendly, not to mention. People come for peace.
The two sides argued, and in the end, President Qusay, who had already gone to Amman, was consulted, and President Qusai made a decision to let Tariq meet him, and Tariq was in charge of full affairs and explained the bottom line of negotiations on the Iraqi side.
It is okay to have the United States make peace and end this war with dignity, but how to calculate the problem of this war and how Israel will compensate the Arab countries for their losses must be made clear, and thinking of the high cost of those missiles launched makes Qusay feel a little painful.
"It's a great honor to be here again in this beautiful country." McFarland said he was also fluent in Arabic. "Please convey on my behalf my warmest greetings to the President of your country and express my condolences for the death of President Saddam."
McFarlane was very sincere, and it was the best opening phrase he could come up with.
"Thank you." Tariq said: "This despicable act of Israel has made all of us Arabs angry, and we have done what we should have done for the sake of peace in the Middle East and to maintain the denuclearization of the Middle East, but we have incurred a rude blow, which is the most despicable act of the aggressor." ”
Yes, McFarlane felt a little big, the opening remarks just now were too unsuccessful, and now, seeing Tariq say this, everyone's eyes are staring here, as if McFarlane said the wrong word, he will be beaten up, McFarlane knows the cause and effect of this matter, and he also knows that he must now take the next sentence satisfactorily, neither can he say that all this is Israel's fault, in that way, there is no benefit to his upcoming peace talks, nor can it be said that it is Iraq that strikes first, so, It will anger everyone present.
As soon as he got off the plane, he gave himself a dismount, McFarlane turned his mind and said: "What is happening now is a tragedy in the Middle East, all of this should not have happened, in order not to let these tragedies happen again, so we are here with friendly sincerity, hoping to bring peace here." ”
I don't say who the reason is, but first of all, the purpose of his arrival is to promote peace talks between the two sides, and the other party is the foreign minister, and those words just now are only diplomatic language, and I hope he will not ask any more questions.
Sure enough, Tariq also said: "We Arabs are peace-loving, and we hope that peace can be restored here, so that all our people can live without air raids and without war." ”
After the two sides warmly shook hands, McFarlane's delegation got into the car that came to meet them.
Since it was late, the formal negotiations would begin the next day.
McFarlane stayed at the Baghdad International Hotel, looked at the dark night sky outside, counted the brilliant stars in the sky, and lost sleep.
He didn't know that on this night, there were many people who, like him, had stayed up all night.
On the surface, Ali's armored forces have already left for the western border, ready to fight against Israel, and his armored forces are one of the most effective armored forces in Iraq.
That very night, however, their whole force ceased to advance, and in the Ramadi area, they began to turn around, and their way to the east began to return, and they were to reach Qazimain in northern Iraq before dawn, and hid in a small town there, waiting for orders from Baghdad to enter the city of Baghdad.
"Our intelligence agencies have ascertained that there are now more than 30 people in Baghdad who are closely connected with the Kamal brothers, some of whom are nobles of prominent origin in Baghdad, some of whom are officials of the previous government who have not been reused in the new government, and some of whom are the personnel of our current government, the highest of which are the two secretaries to the prime minister, who are all fellow villagers of the Kamal brothers, and the Kamal brothers now rely on the President's private security armed special guards. This army was formed by the Kamal brothers, although they have left this army, they still have a great influence on this army, and now, there are five captains in the army, and Kamal is too close, and the deputy captain of this team was received by Kamal during the day today, and the two sides talked secretly for an hour. "In Baghdad, Defense Minister Adnan, who is responsible for the main responsibilities of the Iraqi government after Qusay's departure, received the news.
Before Qusay left, he discussed with Adnan and others that in Iraq, there would be a rebel force waiting for an opportunity to cause chaos, and Adnan was also very firm about these rebel forces, but after receiving the report, he was still a little hesitant.
He did not expect that it was the Kamal brothers who wanted to overthrow Qusay's rule and take power in Iraq.
Adnan Hylara is the brother of Qusay's biological mother, Sajida Khairala, that is, he is Qusay's uncle, and at the same time, he is also the uncle of Qusay's two sisters, Lahed and Lana, and the husband of these two nieces, Hussein Kamal and Saddam Kamal.
At a previous family gathering, the two Kamal brothers expressed a desire to re-enter the army and help Qusay share some of the burden. However, Qusay did not agree, but just let them do the official positions of Minister of Sports and Minister of Information without real power of the government, which is actually a good position for these two people who have not gone to military schools and do not have any command ability, but the ambition of these two people is not directly proportional to their ability, and they now want to rebel!
Tonight, do you want to close the net? Adnan was in a bad mood.
For the other rebel comrades, Adnan does not have any psychological burden, and those people, as long as they show signs of rebellion against the president, should be punished as they should be, and those who can be confirmed to be rebels will have only one end, death. But if the Kamal brothers were to be captured and put to death, what would happen to Lahad and Lana?
"Adnan, in order to stop the rebellion, we should preemptively take control of all these people." This was stated by the Minister of Security, Vatban.
"Wait a little longer, maybe, they have the possibility of repentance, and until now, they haven't really started to act, in case it's just a misunderstanding," Adnan said.
Watban did not answer, the personalities of the two are fundamentally different, Adnan is a good man, not greedy for power, when he was made Minister of Defense, it was after the strong persuasion of Saddam Hussein and Watban and others, but the current situation is definitely not the time to be soft-hearted. Watban was different, and in later life, Watban was quite famous, even when he listened to the miserable howls of the prisoners during the interrogation, he could still read the newspaper with great interest.
To deal with the current situation, you should be ruthless! Watban looked at Adnan who was hesitant, he didn't know how to convince this good old man, he also knew that Adnan was actually not so weak, and now he was behaving because those two people were their relatives.
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