American Fortune Life

Basra, Iraq.

"boom--"

"You can't go in..."

In the Iraqi police station, Major White led two entourages and another middle-aged white man in civilian clothes, not paying any attention to the weak obstruction of the Iraqis, and went directly to the office of the Basra police chief.

"Who are you?"

The chief with a slightly bloated figure and a Mediterranean haircut watched three US soldiers and a person who seemed to be a government official push the door and walked in, and asked loudly in embarrassment.

"CIA, we need to take away the two Iraqi translators who were just released by the terrorists for investigation!" The middle-aged white man in casual clothes directly took out his ID and shook it, then threw away a document and handed it to the other party.

"But they've just been released and we're investigating..."

"Leave it to us!"

The director looked at the expressionless CIA agent, and the three American soldiers who had been expressionless and indifferent. Seeing White's epaulettes, his pupils shrank slightly, and he smiled awkwardly: "Wait a minute , I need to make a call and ask for instructions..."

. . . . . .

Two Iraqi translators who had just escaped from the tiger's mouth were terrified and pushed into a military Humvee by four American soldiers with live ammunition. Major White shook hands with the CIA with a smile on his stiff face.

"Thank you, I'll treat you to a drink another day!"

"No, send me two bottles of Ace of Spades champagne, I know your supplies are here again, damn it, don't make a big deal..."

"It doesn't matter what we say. If we can rescue people smoothly, we don't want to cause trouble. Okay, I'll go first!"

Watching White get into the car, surrounded by a group of heavily armed soldiers with staggering weapons and equipment, quickly boarded the car, and the five military Hummers kicked up a cloud of dust and rushed away.

The CIA agent stretched out his hand to disperse the dust, "These bastards!" Cursing, he got into his car. After getting in the car, he picked up the car satellite phone and reported, "Boss, they have already taken you away."

"That's good, I hope these mad dogs can rescue people smoothly..."

Hearing what my boss said,

The CIA agent was also in a cold sweat. You must know that the Liberty Eagle security company has completed missions with a 100% success rate since it sent employees to Iraq and Afghanistan. Gritting his teeth with envy.

Especially the high welfare treatment, gathered a large group of killing machines with war creation, in order to complete the task, this group of mad dogs will even use SMAW-D83mm rocket launchers to saturate target buildings, and then carry out firepower to clear them. . .

And the reason is because their big boss behind the scenes doesn't like to see the casualty reports of their own people. . .

In a rotten place like Iraq, the best place to find American coffee, champagne, red wine, and cigars is the base of the mad dogs like the Eagles of Freedom. Looting and robbing Iraq on a large scale is already planned. I have made a lot of money. The past is the same as locusts crossing the border. Anyway, every time I go on a mission, I don’t see them returning empty-handed, but the tax is a lot. If you don't, you can only look jealous.

Large-scale looting and looting of Iraq had been planned from the very beginning of the war.

War money is the easiest to earn. The money earned by the Eagles of Liberty from such captures and missions is nothing compared to the U.S. military's dross.

US administrators, acting as the occupying "authority," seized all Iraqi assets and cash around the world—a total of $13 billion.

They confiscated all Iraqi property in the United States worth 3 billion U.S. dollars, and forcibly transferred the assets of Iraqi accounts in Swiss banks to the U.S. military. They have also requested and received funds from the United Nations food-for-oil program totaling about $21 billion.

In the first weeks of the occupation, U.S. forces took control of $6 billion in property, $4 billion of which came from the Central Bank and other Iraqi banks. They opened an account of the "Iraq Development Fund" at the New York branch of the Central Bank of the United States, and its asset operations were conducted under highly secret circumstances. However, about $40 billion has "disappeared".

. . . . . .

"Pooh!"

A giant black man in camouflage pants and a small vest spat in disgust, walked out of the interrogation room, and saluted Major White standing in front of the special glass.

"Sir, the situation has been confirmed. The kidnappers are a group of militants on the black market. The other party's target is CBS TV reporter Richard Butler..."

"Have you found out what it is?" Major White's eyes flickered slightly, looking at the interpreter who was still curled up on the ground in the interrogation room.

"He didn't know. He only knew that the group of people released him to send a signal to the outside world that they would release people after they got the ransom, not to kill people. He didn't know where he was hiding. He was wearing a hood all the time and drove around for a long time. , just threw them out of the car, but it can be confirmed that their hiding place is still in Basra."

"Hehe, it's getting more and more interesting!" Major White grinned, showing a mouthful of white teeth, to make a group of people so desperate to kidnap in the urban area, even now, they still want a ransom, the appetite of this group of guys is still there It's really not small, it's good, it will be more valuable to dig.

"Sit down, this time you go to meet the middleman, mainly to bargain, delay as long as possible, I will let someone accompany you to protect your safety by the way." Major White said to Roberts.

"Okay, I see." Roberts was relieved when he heard that someone was protecting his safety. To be honest, the locals have guns in their hands, and people who are capable of jobs like guides and bodyguards can't go anywhere clean. , or you can directly say that you are a bodyguard during the day and a robbery at night.

After Roberts left, Major White said to another person: "According to the tracker, keep an eye on the middleman. If it is confirmed that the other party has direct contact with the kidnappers, immediately control him secretly and pry his mouth open for me. I want to know the exact location of these bastards!"

"Yes sir!"

White frowned and shook his head. He also knew that the possibility of obtaining information from the intermediary was very small. The anti-reconnaissance experience and capabilities of the Iraqi militants cannot be underestimated.

In fact, the best way and the stupidest way is to ask the Iraqi security forces to help search and rescue, and conduct door-to-door investigations. However, he does not have that kind of ability and influence.

Then the only thing left is to use dangerous tactics and break the rules to complete the task.

Boom——

"Come in."

"Sir." A strong white man in casual clothes saluted White.

"Is there any news?" White looked at the person with a little hope in his eyes.

"It is reported that someone has taken away the first reward. In the week before Richard Butler was kidnapped, he met secretly with three black market dealers, and all three of them were cultural relic smugglers. According to the information provided by the other party According to intelligence reports, Richard Butler has thousands of precious manuscripts and some early famous works of medieval Arabic history, literature and natural science!"

"Sure enough!" Major White listened to the report with a sneer on his face. This made perfect sense. They were cheating, changing their minds and kidnapping them. These guys really made money.

"Can the three cultural relic smugglers be identified?"

"The other party only provided one person's name."

"Find him immediately and bring him back to me. He must know the identities of the other two, hehe, I believe he will tell us who his competitor is!"

Major White's stiff face was finally occupied by a smile, not because he was happy to save people, but because of the news revealed in this incident, he saw the value of profit, you must know that he is not a pure soldier now, He needs to generate profits for the company, so that he can be worthy of his job of sitting in an air-conditioned room, drinking red wine, smoking cigars, and holding a million-dollar annual salary.

Since the US invasion of Iraq, at least 10 million historical documents and 14,000 historical artifacts have been destroyed and stolen. A large amount of cultural relics flowed to the black market and abroad.

The Law on the Protection of Historic Relics of the Hague Conference stipulates that in a war, the occupying party has the legal responsibility to protect the local cultural relics. This is an international law document with the nature of legal sanctions. As far as the United States has never signed this document, there is nothing at all binding.

Many of Iraq's treasure troves of cultural relics are military bases occupied and guarded by the U.S. Army and the Blue Army. They are still digging and stealing. .

As the person in charge of the Freedom Eagle Security Company in Iraq, White naturally knew that the precious cultural relics in every loot he got would be boxed and put directly on the military plane for supply and shipped back to the United States, becoming the collection of the big boss. And these executives also know the hobby of the big boss.

White pondered for a while, picked up the satellite phone and called Joseph, reporting the news to him and arranging possible harvest transfers.