Chapter 1624 Big fish bite the hook
The atmosphere in the study became full of gunpowder, which did not seem to make everyone present nervous.
Old Smith still closed his eyes leisurely and rested indifferently, smoking a cigar. Former Defense Secretary Rumsfield just looked at Andy with a smile on his lips. The other generals looked a little solemn, their eyes flashed. They thought about what they could use to impress this greedy and cunning young man for a while and blocked his mouth.
As for the US soldiers and the lieutenant colonel who were confiscated, these generals knew very well that they were responsible for their own faults. After all, it was an illegal military operation. Even if the military wanted to be unreasonable and insisted on being the mistake of the Free Eagle Company, under the current circumstances, they would not dare to do this.
After all, Andy Smith, who has a huge killing weapon, will be in trouble once she is angry and directly overturn the table!
After overthrowing the Sadam regime and occupying Ilak, everything that happened in Ilak was a confusing account. This confusing account involved hundreds of billions of dollars. There was no way to figure out how many entanglements, transactions, interest games, and interest groups benefiting. No one dared to figure out.
Silence, strange silence.
Originally, the generals present would support their toughness, and together they looked at Minister Gates, who had been watching him with an idiot-like gaze, looked around with a frown for a week, his pupils shrank slightly, but he did not give in, but looked at Andy tightly, waiting for Andy Smith's reply.
"Buzz--"
Andy raised his eyebrows, shrugged, took out his phone and looked at it. After smiling mysteriously from Gates, he answered the phone, "I'm Andy Smith, what's the matter..."
This time, including Old Smith, they looked at Andy with curious eyes, whose expressions on her face were changing with great changes. Until Andy hung up the phone, everyone's eyes were not left.
"Okay, something really happened!" Andy shrugged helplessly and smiled, but his tone was full of jokes.
"In the early morning of the 12th Baghdad time, a group of unidentified militants surrounded the station of Free Eagle Security Company in Baghdad with live ammunition and were preparing to forcibly rush the checkpoint. Without a search warrant for the US military headquarters in Iraq, they requested an illegal search of our company's station. When the verbal warning was invalid, John Cook, the company's station manager, was unable to distinguish his suspicious identity because his other party was unknown. In order to protect the safety of the company's station property and personnel, he was disarmed and seized according to the security and Counter-terrorism Act issued by Mr. Bremer, the Supreme Chief Executive in Iraq... "
Andy explained with a smile, and finally reached out to signal Bremer, who shook his head and laughed helplessly. The others also shook their heads and smiled bitterly. They are now insisting that they are unidentified militants and do not admit that they are detained US soldiers. Okay, this is also good, everyone looks better in terms of face...
While the generals were comforting themselves, Andy Smith continued: "There is no way. Our company mainly provides security work and is good at defensive protection. Facing hundreds of armed militants with live ammunition, only more than fifty security personnel are vigilant at the company's base, and it is understandable that it is nervous. Disarming seizure is mainly for safety investigation..."
As soon as he said this, the military tycoons present couldn't help but twitched a few times, and the red fruit slapped him in the face.
"Ahem..."
Four-star general Abizaid coughed twice when he couldn't hear the obscure mockery of Andy Smith, a young man, reminding him that the dignity of the US military should be maintained. Although he knew better than anyone else that the group of vultures of the Freedom Eagle were all retired American elites, and John Cook was the retired colonel of the former Marine Corps. Although they were all his own people, there was still a distinction between active service and retirement.
Andy raised his eyebrows and no longer stimulated the hearts of the generals present, but said solemnly: "I was originally going to release the person after I confirmed my identity, but the lieutenant colonel named Hopfen told my employees that they were searching for an American contractor and arms dealer named Stodale, claiming that the other party was a spy, but the American from Stodale happened to be a customer of the company. He was ambushed and killed by unknown militants on the way to the US Embassy with security services..."
As soon as Stodale's name appeared, several generals present and the congressional bosses couldn't help but exchanged glances secretly, and the look at Andy became more and more serious. They could confirm that the evidence of the entire chain of interests had been grasped by the young man in front of him.
"My employees could not confirm the remarks of Lieutenant Colonel Hopfen. After all, it was related to the murder of an American citizen. I originally hoped to notify the embassy people to handle the matter after dawn. However, as soon as dawn, the company's station was surrounded by a large number of soldiers. In order to have other accidents and worry that the truth would be distorted, the resident supervisor chose to make clear the matter clearly under the witness of the embassy, the FBI and the highest chief in Iraq, to conduct personnel transfers and hand over some evidence that might help investigate the case!"
“…”
The study room became silent again. Even the Secretary of Defense Gates, who was tough just now, looked at the Army General Tommy Franks sitting opposite him with a grim expression. Gates could become Secretary of Defense, naturally he would not be an idiot. Ilak's mess. As the Secretary of Defense, he knew very well that in addition to the $125 billion in reconstruction funds, the Ilak Provisional Government reached an agreement with the Pentagon to allow it to temporarily manage Ilak's oil revenue, which had long been a bad debt!
As soon as Andy told him that Stodale's identity was a contractor and an arms dealer, Gates immediately guessed the whole story. To be honest, he really wanted to stand up and leave the study immediately, not for his bad attitude before, but for his own bad attitude, but for the fact that he really didn't want to get involved in the Ilak Vortex, which was already a mud pond. After all, the donkey party led by Aoguanhai has begun to gather investigators to dig deep into the mud and catch big fish.
Unfortunately, just like the proverb circulating in Washington, 'No one is truly innocent, and the Boy Scouts are no exception.' As a veteran politician, one thing to understand is that no matter which side you stand on, everyone has to eat.
Those present are the real big fish. The big guy Washington will never really pursue the best interests...
Resting on the sofa, looking at the silent people with a smile. Andy and Old Smith, who were also smiling, looked at each other with a brilliant glow in his eyes. Andy broke the silence and pretended to be angry and dissatisfied, saying: "Previously, the Baghdad station sent me a document that was handed over to the company's employees at the last moment of his life. He hoped that the contents of the document could be made public and handed over to the FBI, because this was related to a corruption case that was squandered $50 billion in the Ilak reconstruction plan..."
When the 50 billion figure was revealed, everyone present could not help but look at each other and took a breath. Whether it was true or false, they all looked shocked. Gates said in shock: "Impossible!"
Former Minister Rumsfeld also looked at Andy Smith with a little surprised, frowned and said in a deep voice: "It's so exaggerating..."
"Bang!"
Andy ignored Gates' incompetence and did not worry about whether Rumsfeld's so-called "too exaggerated" was questioning numbers or sighing at the corrupt personnel. Instead, he sneered and kept the unsealed file bag on the table. A stack of photos was thrown out of the file bag with inertia and unfolded on the table.
"No one supervises, everything is managed in disorder, only a lot of money that makes people's heart beat faster, wandering in front of their eyes every day and lying on their accounts. Haha, what else is more suitable for scrambling to fish?"
Andy looked at the big guys present who had a deep connection with Ilak and wanted to say that everyone here was all trash 13 episodes, but he still had to squeeze oil from these people. Andy would not destroy his plan for the sake of the quickness of the picture.
Everyone present looked at the photos on the table. The top one was behind a desk full of dollars in cash. A colonel wearing desert camouflage, biting a cigar in his mouth, hid behind the "Gold Mountain" and winked at the colonel.
"Damn..."
"This idiot!"
......
The people in the photo were recognized at first glance as the generals of Curtis Whiteford who gave them money. Their eyes were blazing, their faces turned black, and they cursed in their hearts with gritted teeth, hoping to send someone to kill this idiot immediately.
"Peat pizza filled with US dollars in cash, bags of cash were carried into the military camp and delivered to the tables in various offices... Tsk tsk, after I looked at these evidence, I thought this was the military camp of an African warlord, which was really amazing!" Andy continued the sarcastic sarcasm of the poisonous snake.
"This is a super big rat! We must be severely punished and not loaned!"
"Send them all to the military court!"
"This group of bastards is damn..."
Looking at the indignant and angry generals, Andy sneered in his heart, but with an agreement on his face, he said: "Fraud, embezzlement, dereliction of duty, these big rats have defiled the honor of our army and should be punished by law. I have asked the supervisor of Baghdad to contact the US Special Supervision Bureau for Reconstruction of Iraq and decided to hand over these evidence to them..."
"No! Mr. Smith, you can't do this!"
“Absolutely not…”
"Andy, they should have a military court to try!"
Andy pretended to be forced by the momentum of everyone present speaking in unison, and looked a little shocked. He opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, but he sneered in his heart, and the big fish finally bit the hook!
Chapter completed!