Chapter 89 Mogadishu Riot (1)

The congressional investigation team stayed in Italy for nearly a week. According to the plan, the investigation team had only one day in Naples, but the arrival of Eva, the famous American technology giant, made the investigation team leader, Massachusetts Congressman Colvin, have to do more. stayed for some days.

Although the U.S. general election is over, the U.S. mid-term elections are still more than a year away. Colvin hopes to run for governor of Massachusetts. Since you want to run for office, you need the support of the donor, and Eva, the rich woman of Yota Communications, and Kervin are both Harvard alumni, so for his own political future, Kervin chose to use this opportunity to win over Eva in Italy. Therefore, he deliberately slowed down the itinerary of the entire investigation team. Zoe is just a small reporter. Although he is dissatisfied with this, he has nothing to do.

The New York Times correspondents thought that if they had given the Fraternity Africa Foundation an extra week, they would not be able to fill the Mogadishu warehouses with food, and they did. During this period, the Fraternity Africa Foundation did not frantically deliver food to the storage and transportation warehouse of the United Nations Relief Agency in Mogadishu. The sacks were filled with trucks, and the truckloads were transported to Ogaden, Ethiopia's worst-hit province. But what these sacks contain is not grain, but sand.

Yes, the Fraternity Africa Foundation is frantically shipping inedible sand to Ethiopia. And all this was seen by the Somalis in Mogadishu. And the rumor that has been circulating in Mogadishu recently also made the Somalis feel that it should be true.

"The Americans want more Somalis to starve to death just because they are the sons of Allah, the Americans just want the Ethiopians to live. (The dominant religion in Ethiopia is Ethiopian Orthodox, similar to Russian Orthodox, but in Italy Somalia is dominated by Islam.)” The Somalis who hold this kind of thinking feel angry, and the Red Cross, which represents peace and love (shipped to Ethiopia, so it is not the Red Cross) month) logo now looks so glaring to Somalis.

As a result, dissatisfaction and anger began to permeate the streets and alleys of Mogadishu. Whenever the fraternal African grain convoy passed by the streets of Mogadishu, the Somalis on both sides of the road stared fiercely at the bags of food on the truck. A bulging bag of grain, the eyes are about to burst into flames.

Boris remotely commanded the subordinates of the Somali Gorky Brotherhood from Turkey. After Chebyshev and others chartered a flight back to Mogadishu overnight, they have not stopped working. They don't understand why the sand in the warehouse has to be transported to Ogaden Province in Ethiopia to be dumped. meaning above. But it is impossible to complete such a huge project with Chebyshev and others alone. They rent almost all the trucks in Mogadishu to transport sand to Ethiopia. In order to keep it secret, Boris did not allow Chebyshev and the others to hire locals, but sent additional people from Turkey to Mogadishu.

At the moment when Mogadishu's message about the US investigation team was raging,

The congressional investigation team led by Zoe and Colvin finally arrives in Mogadishu.

Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre showed great interest in the arrival of the Americans. A few years ago, because of the poor performance of the Soviet Air Force during the Ogaden War, Barre sent more than a thousand Soviet troops to Somalia All the pilots were driven out of Somalia, which directly led to the Soviet Union falling to Somalia's rival Ethiopia. In today's world, unless all countries declare neutrality, they must choose a side team between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although Somalia is now a socialist country, they can no longer return to the Soviet camp. The United States is the only one in Somalia rely on.

Although the purpose of Colvin's trip is to investigate the food reserves of the Fraternity Africa Foundation, an ambitious politician will not give up the opportunity to show himself on the diplomatic stage. Therefore, Colvin did not immediately invest in the investigation of Friendship Africa. Instead, he first played diplomatic cards with the Barre government and United Nations officials. Even if the fraternity of Africa is completely destroyed, it will not bring any benefit to Colvin. It is better to have good relations with politicians abroad. There are quite a few reporters among the staff. Only the diplomacy that comes out can be passed back to the country, and its competitors will be pulled down a lot.

Zoe and Colvin both stayed at the International Hotel in downtown Mogadishu, where Zoe met Jimmy again. Jimmy told Zooey everything he had discovered during this period, and Zooey showed a confused expression after listening. She asked, "Why is Fraternity Africa starting to send food to Ethiopia again? What are they trying to do?"

"I don't know, I only know that their convoy departs from Mogadishu to Ogaden province every day! But the convoy is full of their people, and I can't find out more inside information!" Jimmy replied .

"It's okay, it's too late for them to think of helping those victims, and I don't believe they can make that 7 million tons of grain out of thin air!" Zoe said nonchalantly.

In Mogadishu, the places where foreigners and international organizations live have almost no intersection with the locals, probably because of security issues. Journalists like Jimmy also live in the safe zone designated by the United Nations. So these foreigners don't know the situation in Mogadishu.

Since Zoe came with the investigation team, his actions were legally subject to the approval of the investigation team. So Zooey can’t leave here without authorization. But this Colvin seems to have completely forgotten the serious business of coming to Mogadishu.

Rubik and others who were photographed by Yakov in Mogadishu also hid in the safe area where foreigners live in Mogadishu. Their task this time is more complicated, but killing Zoe is one of their tasks. Before accepting the new order, Rubik and others pretended to be UN staff and stayed in the International Hotel to monitor the delegation's every move. At the same time, they were also preparing for another mission.

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A few days later, the largest local newspaper in Mogadishu published an article with the headline "Food is going to be transported by the Americans!" "

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