Chapter 693: Baghdad Night
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This night was the most desperate day of the once invincible Kamal brothers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
They could still be a member of the Iraqi government, and their two ministerial-level figures, at the top level of Iraq, can also be said to have a lot of power, but they can't grasp the military power. Because of ambition and dissatisfaction, they made a wrong step and, under the bewitchment of certain forces, embarked on the road of no return to rebellion.
Hussein Kamal, the son-in-law of President Saddam Hussein and brother-in-law of current President Qusay, plotted a rebellion and rose to the top of his power with the support of the United States.
Unfortunately, Kusay didn't give him that chance.
When Hussein Kamal, with his guards, took to the streets of July 14, he was still full of confidence. Because, now Baghdad, is an undefended city.
Several cars, carrying Hussein Kamal's men, embarked on this point of no return.
What awaits them is death.
Guarding the street corner were two T-72 tanks of the ** Armored Regiment, and the muzzles of the tanks were vigilantly scanning both sides of the street.
Suddenly, the commander of the tank spotted the convoy coming from a distance.
"Attention, there's someone approaching." The commander shouted over the radio, and suddenly, the infantry in the two BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles were also rushing to the makeshift bunkers on both sides of the street, ready for battle.
In the early hours of the morning, it was already a little cool in Baghdad, and the soldiers opened their eyes wide and looked at the approaching convoy on the street under the street lamps in front of them.
The car in front of it suddenly stopped.
"Why don't you go?" Hussein Kamal asked, poking his head out and looking forward.
Seeing that behemoth, Hussein Kamal suddenly felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart, he still knew it, those things in front of him, it was a tank!
If there are tanks guarding the intersection, it means that Baghdad is under martial law. Where did this armored unit come from? Could it be that I have already happened?
Hussein Kamal frowned, he was very sure that he had not been exposed, otherwise, he would have been secretly targeted, and he would still be able to come and go freely. It is also possible to carry these people towards the goal. This temporary martial law. It is likely that it is for other reasons, and now he has no way out, and he has already determined it. As long as he takes the Ministry of Defense and the Palace of the Republic, he will be considered successful this time, and Saddam Hussein has already gone to mobilize the Special Guards. When this team comes, it is still possible to use the terrain and deal with tanks. Even if these troops are not good for him, as long as he achieves his goal first, he has the advantage.
Although the situation was not optimistic, there was no turning back from the bow, and Hussein Kamal decided to keep the original plan unchanged and move on. Dealing with these people at the intersection, perhaps he can use his identity, after all, he is now Iraq's sports minister.
Although Kamal had been a soldier, he had never been on the battlefield and lacked an intuition of the situation on the battlefield. In this case, as a coup d'état, he still dares to move forward like this, which can only show that the throne of power is there. It's so tempting that it can make people take risks.
Report. A suspicious person was spotted, who was in six cars, approaching us. "The platoon commander in charge of this intersection reports upwards at the same time.
"Watch closely, and if they are armed, follow the order, open fire to eliminate them." A familiar voice came over the radio.
If it were just ordinary citizens, even though it was already late at night, they still couldn't open fire at will, and the orders they received were aimed at armed men.
Watching the opposing convoy slowly move away, a soldier on the side of the road shouted: "Stop moving!" ”
"The Minister of Sports has just returned from the National Stadium, passing by here, please give way." Inside a car in front of him, an officer poked his head out and shouted.
Minister of Sports? The platoon commander was a little puzzled, in his eyes, the Minister of Sports could be regarded as a big man, but their current task to stop was probably the rebellion of the big man.
The platoon commander got out of the infantry fighting vehicle and walked forward towards the convoy that had stopped.
Hussein Kamal opened the window and showed his head.
The platoon commander knew, this person often appeared on TV, and was indeed the Minister of Sports.
"Release." The platoon commander said.
The tank rumbled and moved out of the way. Carrying out a mission in the capital is a complicated matter, if you let go of suspicious militants, they will be suspected of dereliction of duty, and if you mistakenly shoot high-ranking people, they may immediately become rebels.
This sports minister can't kill people when he goes home by himself, right?
The convoy began to slowly drive past the tanks blocking the intersection.
When the last car drove by, the platoon commander suddenly sensed that something was wrong, the Minister of Sports went home, there was no need for so many people to follow, right? He remembered that when they came just now, they had passed by the National Stadium, where there was no one after work, and there were no lights, and there were no cars in the parking lot outside!
He suddenly woke up, no, the National Stadium was not in that direction at all, on the way they came, that is, in the direction of the current convoy, how could they have come back from the National Stadium?
Problematic!
"Stop!" The platoon commander shouted.
At this time, in the last car, a man suddenly stood up, raising an automatic rifle.
"Bang bang," a few bullets hit the concrete pavement under the platoon commander's feet, and the platoon commander had expertly rolled to the side of the makeshift bunker.
They have weapons! And they fought back! In other words, they are unidentified armed men that they need to destroy!
"Fire!" As soon as the platoon commander finished speaking, his tanks and soldiers began to return fire.
Hussein Kamal couldn't help but want to scold, the guy who was in the car behind him was just a voice from behind that that made him stop, and this guy couldn't control it.
People who go to the battlefield for the first time, even if they pat their chests and say that they are brave before leaving, but when they get to the battlefield, they will still have all kinds of abnormal reactions, which is a normal reaction of people.
These people gathered by Hussein Kamal are usually brave enough in Baghdad, but now they are not able to stay awake enough in the face of this situation.
Immediately, fierce firefights were heard one after another, and Kamal's first few cars were rapidly moving forward, leaving only one intersection from the Ministry of Defense building they were going to control.
The two cars in the back, already in the fierce exchange of fire in the back, were beaten into a hornet's nest, Hussein Kamal can no longer care about the cars behind, he needs to rush through the intersection in front and take down the Ministry of Defense!
At this time, he actually regretted it, his 100 or so people, if they really fought, it would not be enough to consume at all, if the president's private security armed special guard came, it would be easy to do.
Kamal's convoy, before it reached the intersection, ushered in another fierce attack.
They have been exposed, they are armed and they are the first to fire at the troops under martial law, it is enough to show that they are the people that the martial law troops need to deal with.
The fighters of the ** armored regiment guarding the intersection in front were ready, and when those vehicles arrived, the 73mm caliber 2A28 low-pressure smoothbore gun in front of the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle first tore through the silence of the night sky in the entire Baghdad city, and the car in front was immediately lifted up under artillery fire.
In such a street with many inhabitants, the power of using tank guns is somewhat too amazing, and the artillery of this infantry fighting vehicle alone is enough to deal with ordinary vehicles.
Seeing a flash of fire appear in front of him, and then, the car was lifted up, and Hussein Kamal, who was sitting in the second car, knew that something was wrong, there were interceptors in front, and there were heavy weapons, and they were ordinary fighters with bazookas at most, and they couldn't deal with it at all.
Moreover, what they need to consider now is how not to be eliminated, instead of attacking the Ministry of Defense.
"Hold on, our reinforcements will be here soon." Hussein Kamal still has a lot of confidence that his brother will give orders to the President's Private Security Armed Guards, and maybe he will be here and fight in the next second.
Although those tanks looked imposing, they still had a chance as long as they went up from the building next to them and fired rockets from the side, which could easily penetrate the weak armor in the rear of the opponent.
They didn't have any chance, and then, the soldiers of the infantry battalion in the infantry fighting vehicle had already entered the battle, they began to outflank from the flank, followed by the soldiers coming from the intersection behind, forming an encirclement, completely surrounding these unknown armed men, they could not escape.
The citizens of Baghdad, having spent the night in fear, heard the sound of gunfire outside and knew that something big had happened in Baghdad.
They remembered that a few years ago, Baghdad had finally calmed down after several turmoils, and was it possible that the scene of the past would be staged again?
The gunfire only went off for more than ten minutes before it calmed down, but many people had no sleep all night.
There was another group of people who had stayed up all night, those who had already pledged allegiance to the Kamal brothers. They heard the gunshots and knew that the Kamal brothers had already done it, but they did not know whether they had succeeded or not, whether the days of Baghdad had changed.
Wait until the next day, and you'll know the exact situation!
They did not wait, and before dawn the arrest began, and all those who had been too close to the Kamal brothers in recent times and had sufficient evidence were arrested.
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