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Vincent assists Paolos to a sitting position inside the secure office, then seats himself. Ferdinand folds his hands in his lap, lets out a long sigh, and then looks up at Loic.

"I wish I had time for the normal diplomatic pleasantries, I really do. However, the situation demands I be brief. President Josephus suggested I liaise with you, so here I am.

First, let me extend El Reino della Tilapia's most sincere condolences on this terrible tragedy. The Queen, the Consulate, and the rest of the government are all appalled by this cowardly act of terrorism. The people of Tilapia grieve with you. But we have no intentions of sitting idly by.

I have been authorized to extend to the United Provinces of Eutopia an offer of 20 million ducats in international aid money. I know it's not much, but we have already spent much of our budget for this term, and it's all we could squeeze out. Additionally, we are opening up our own emergency stocks to send to you...blankets, rations, propane fuel, medical supplies, that sort of thing. Finally, we can send rescue workers and a full field hospital as well as a few military helicopters to help out. We have four helicopters we're willing to put into the effort, including an Mi-26 Halo. Are you familiar with Russian helicopters, Senor Minister? It's the largest helicopter in the world, capable of carrying a 20,000 kg load both inside and out. Good for moving large pieces of rubble in a hurry.

We can have our helicopters, rescue personnel, and the first wave of supplies in downtown New Lancaster in hours, if you accept our offer. In order to do this, we will need special clearance to fly through your airspace and land at New Lancaster International Airport for the duration of the rescue operation."

-vS as Tilapia
 

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"Sir, the truck was EPS -- we've identified it from the license plate as one that went missing from a loading dock in Kirby yesterday. No one spotted the theft, though, so that looks like a dead lead.

"Our guys still haven't gotten close enough to guarantee this is an ANFO, but we're following the ammonium nitrate trail anyway -- it's relatively easy. If fertilizer suppliers balk, however, we're going to have legal trouble trying to get their records until we've actually identified ammonium nitrate as a component of the bomb.

"Just to let you know, I understand your suspicions perfectly, given the word the President received from his contact. However, based on that alone, we're going to have problems if we try to detain Cubans for very long. We can justify keeping the airport closed for days if we have to, but we'll ruin the economy if it's for much longer. Meanwhile, I've got a team running down any Cubans in the country based on their entry documents."

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"Ambassador Paolos, thank you for your country's most generous offer. The President has authorized me to accept the in-kind aid: helicopters, relief supplies, rescue workers and a full field hospital. I will contact the military to allow clearance and the airport to allow landings. Some of your aircraft may be escorted. I will transmit the more than generous offer of monetary aid to the President, who is responsible for Federal finances. Alternatively, a private ECB Blast Victims Fund has been established, which would be happy to accept donation and make sure it went to the right place."
 

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"Our helicopters will come in one group, at least for the first run, so that will make escorting them easier. Don't worry, they won't be carrying a weapons load or anything silly like that.

Send the 20 million ducat donation to the President...in the aftermath, there will be a lot of expenses for the government to cover. I will inform the government of the Victims Fund, and see if we can find any more money hidden away in the budget."

Vincent cuts in. "Sir, perhaps we could organize a public fundraiser for the Victims Fund, like various organizations and governments did for that tsunami."

Paolos thinks a moment, then nods. "Yes, a good idea. I'll talk with the Consulate about it, and let them know you've accepted our offer, Senor Minister. We'll have the helicopters in the air in minutes. Have the military contact General Summers directly, I believe they have the contact information, to let him know when we have clearance. I will get back to you about a donation to the Victims Fund, Minister de Fourgeres. Is there anything else we can do for you?"

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Loic instructs the New Lancaster City Airport to expect the relief flights from Tilapia. He then calls Hedgar Joover, head of FLEA.
"The airport will re-open tomorrow, unless something else happens before then. But the security will exceedingly tight, just keep slowly searching and re-searching anybody we aren't ready to have leave until they miss their flight.

On another matter, there are a couple of people I would like questioned, but we need to do this in the right way at the right time. Lamont Raashad might have had a change of mind about Cornelius Dank. Previously, he had said:
Sure he's a militant radical, but that might actually be a good thing when the labor conference with CAFTA begins. After all, the unions in St. Esprit and Tilapia hated the ECL for being too weak and afraid to challenge the system. And they ended up smuggling weapons into Eutopia. The militant image Cornelius gives the ECL might give him more credibility when negotiations come. I wouldn't worry too much about Cornelius, I think he's planning some protests and mass organizations, likely a few strikes. He's going to cause a good ruckus no doubt, but it's good for the left to show its teeth now and again.
I wonder if he thinks the same way now. Do you want to have FLEA talk to him as a possible material witness, or do you think I should follow up with him privately? Of course this could all be a dead end if Cornelius Dank is not involved. He is the other person we would need to question, but as a suspect, so we will need something more to go on, which is why we need to find out what Per Rashaad knows first."
 

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"Definitely sounds like something you should follow up on personally, sir. You have a personal connection with him, it sounds like -- that's something you can use. He's just going to clam up if he's approached by unfamiliar and hostile FLEA agents."

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Loic calls the Head of FLEA.
"I noticed a website for a young socialist organization on a university campus. What are the rules about inflitrating such an organization? It's sudden appearance after the announcement of the Friends of Durruti is suspicious. It could be a recuiting for them. And what is a durruti anyway, is it the Topan word for female dogs?"
 

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Joover sighs, and tries not to sound exasperated. "Buenaventura Durruti, sir, noted Spanish leftist anarchist, labor organizer and militant in the early part of the 20th century. He mobilized irregulars during the Spanish Civil War and had a couple of particularly bloody run-ins with the army before getting killed. Not someone to emulate, though I'm sure the 'Friends' would call me a fascist for saying so.

"I'll see about possibly inserting a young agent into the group, sir. We try to keep track of these groups -- they've been around for decades, you know -- but the mention of a classless society does make this one sound a bit militant."
 

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But it would be convenient if 'durutti' were, or at least sounded like something evil or disgusting in one of the Topan dialects, indicating that the borrowed idea, a failure elsewhere, is even worse for Eutopia.

To have a reasonable chance of success, we will need to try to plant more than one infiltrator. But, I don't want to go as far as the US did with the SDS, where FBI moles ended up providing a substantial portion of the funding to that organization.
 

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Loic calls up the head of FLEA
"We need to work on compiling a list of the missing. The driver and anyone else on that EPS truck may have friends or relatives who knew nothing about their involvement, and thus could report them missing. It would be probable that they wouldn't have been in that area ordinarily, so their relatives wouldn't necessarily expect that they were victims of the bombing. I don't expect that we will be able to get any DNA identification of people that close to the center of the blast, but we could get lucky. Sorry to bother you with these things you are no doubt already following up on, but I wouldn't be able to sleep if I didn't mention it.

Also, what do think about posting a large reward? Obviously someone who knows something is probably somewhat an insider and therefore prosecutable, so we might have to throw in having them become witnesses in exchange for immunity from prosecution. I know how that works in the US, France and the UK, but I haven't read too much about that here. I assume we would have to work that out with the new Commissioner of Justice.

Speaking of which, I doubt that six MGAs will ever get around to voting in favor of anything, so under the rules they will have to vote on the other two nominated CoJ candidates, Per O'Floinn and myself. Assuming none of us get the six votes either, then it will be up to the Senate, which has always been a bit of mystery to me. Anyway, there is a remote possibility, contrary to plan, of me becoming the CoJ, in which case you would need a new Minister. I don't have any party colleagues to recommend, so as the President will no doubt ask me to make a recommendation, do you have any thoughts as to who, among the political class, you think would make a good MIDA? The problem will be finding someone to serve under Josephus. People's images of him are tainted by events that occured before I arrived in Eutopia. If they would only look at how he has been as President, they might not have the same objections. He managed to talk Michael Lundgren into serving, so hopefully he will find someone else as well."
 

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A note come in to Loic bearing the seal of the president.

Per Loic,

Per Mofaz called me. He's wondering what his status is. I announced officially his new role as EndTech CEO...but does he now have to wait for GA Citizenship? Can we make him temporary until his citizenship....between you and I getting the GA to pass a fart between them takes months.

Also....can you send me a briefing on how investigations are going regarding the Bank bombing. Any leads? I've placed a call to Felix Castor in Cuba, but, surprisingly, he's yet to return my call.

One more thing....when do you think we should end this state of emergency. On the one hand, until this Dubruti group is eliminated the threat remains, on the other hand, one of the main goals of such groups is to disrupt normal life as much as possible. We need to know the risks of further attacks. High alerts in the coast guard and at customs will make it impossible for further arms to come in....although, from my expe...from what I know, most arms are smuggled into this country outside the normal port channels.

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Another note comes bearing the presidential seal of Eutopia

Loic...funny. As I wrote yuo that last note, I see my message light flashing...Felix Castor called me. After castigating me at great length, Man, that old windbag can talk, he says that Cuba is not behind the recent bombing.
I'll say it is 50-50 whether he's telling the truth or not. Although I've always trusted him, he made it rather clear that he's fallen out with me.
I'm not sure at this point what we should do. I know that in the old days an attempt was made to infiltrate MEOR by sending a government operative. We may have to resort to that tactic, unless our intelligence has anything new.

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The phone rings in the secure office of MIDA

"Per Loic, Truman here. You had some questions about the CIS investigation? I have ordered the CIS to fully co-operate with the actions of the FLEA. Actualy, I've given the orders that CIS is under command of the FLEA. FLEA is able to use the Analysis Wing in the MDIS.
Is this OK"
 

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Frans, Thanks for calling me back. There were squawks in chattering classes last time we put CIS under the command of FLEA. Now that you are there, we don't need to do it. Let's keep it to co-operation, each concentrating on what they are good at, and where they are allowed to operate. A few days before the bombing, we had an anonyous call from someone who wanted to speak to us about a matter of state security. When we got the meeting point, he had been shot, and his last word was 'Cubans'. It turned out to be a union leader, high up in the Eutopian Congress of Labour. As our president had some connections in Cuba, from a long time ago, I suggested that he find out what they knew. Shortly before the bombing, he learned that something was up. Since that time he has exchanged messages with the Cuban President, but that didn't go too well, probably because the coalition with the P4P and the legislative minority have kept Josephus from accomplishing much that a socialist could brag about, at least in Felix Castors' eyes.

We already have obtained a search warrant for and then received the list of all phone calls to Cuba during the relevant time. There are over 300,000, and we are still working on it, but we have already checked the obvious suspects and have found nothing. It is probably better if FLEA retains the list, but if your agents want anyone's calls to Cuba checked, just let us know and we will do so.

FLEA is following up with the usual police methods to try to find out who was involved, where they were before, who else was there, etc. This is a slow process and an uncertain one. We are debating whether offering a big reward, with some immunity, will help the process.

What plans to you have to use CIS to look into this?"
 

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"Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you, sir," Joover says. "Frankly, we're a little overworked -- we only have so many agents available. If you wanted to lean on the administration for a little extra funding for another thousand agents, no one here would be complaining."

unclebryan said:
To have a reasonable chance of success, we will need to try to plant more than one infiltrator. But, I don't want to go as far as the US did with the SDS, where FBI moles ended up providing a substantial portion of the funding to that organization.

"We're working on this, sir, but not many of the colleges are eager to have a socialist youth organization recruiting this soon after the bombing, and the YSE has been getting a lot of resistance. You could lean on the universities to expedite this, but such a sudden flip-flop in position could look suspicious if anyone's paying attention. It's up to you."

unclebryan said:
"We need to work on compiling a list of the missing. The driver and anyone else on that EPS truck may have friends or relatives who knew nothing about their involvement, and thus could report them missing.

"Frankly, sir, we looked at this, but I don't think it's an effective use of our time at this point. We have hundreds of missing persons reports after the bombing, plus the dozens various law enforcement organizations get from all over the country every day. Without any way to determine who was in the truck -- and you're quite right, we have no remains -- we have no ability to distinguish one from the other. Most missing persons get resolved in a few days or weeks, and eventually we'll ID the bodies that weren't at ground zero, so we'll have a much smaller batch to work with later on."

unclebryan said:
Also, what do think about posting a large reward?

"Prosecution isn't my bailiwick, sir, so whatever deals for immunity you want to make are between you and the CoJ. I think a reward is a fine idea, but I would be more worried about how you're going to pay for it. You'll either have to get some approval from the administration or GA, or find some private funding. I don't imagine the latter will be in short supply."

unclebryan said:
I don't have any party colleagues to recommend, so as the President will no doubt ask me to make a recommendation, do you have any thoughts as to who, among the political class, you think would make a good MIDA?

"I'm not in a position to comment on political matters, sir, other than to say you're doing a fine job as MIDA. Well, at least as far as FLEA is concerned."
 
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Loic thanks Hedgar Joover for the update and compliment.
"So on the YSE, lets see how effective the universities are at stopping that abberation, but if it gets going despite their efforts, we will need to keep tabs on it, and try to have some infiltrators.

About the agents, that is a matter for the budget, which hasn't even been proposed yet. Josephus is holding out until a slimmed down version of the VAT is considered, and that has to wait until the COJ vote is held, which we discussed previously. It will probably be next term before any actual additional funds would get here by that means. I will try to see if we can get a specific bill passed to fund the thousand extra agents, while the matter is still fresh in everyones mind. But even if we had the money, their isn't a FLEA-agents-R-US store anywhere that I know of. That would mean that it would take time. There are a couple of ways to get more people quickly. One is graduating the new class of agents early, like military academies often do in wartime. The other is to offer inducements to recently retired agents to come back for a year or two. Please investigate those possibilities, and go ahead an increase the intake at the FLEA academy by 10% for the next class if we have room, I will get the funding for that somewhere.

As to the when to begin looking into people who went missing around the time of the blast who wouldn't have been expected to be there, I will leave it to you to act at the most efficient time."
 

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Rednan said:
I don't have any idea yet. How many men does FLEA has there? I'll say CIS sends one-thirth of what FLEA has at the ECB. I'm sending specialists of course.
The jurisdiction of FLEA is restricted to our shores, and they have people experienced in forensic work. Therefore, I think that the most logical places for CIS to work is somewhere other than at the site of the bombing. Here is a partial list of some Cuba nationals or other arrivals who had been in Cuba recently that I was able to get from the part of MIDA that is responsible for air transportation. I don't have a similar list from those that came in by sea, as we are responsible for navigation and shipping but not immigration. You should ask the MTIA, the ministry, not the minister, for a full list, as they are responsible for immigration. The easiest way to get in is to fly to St. Esprit or Tilapia and come across the border, either overtly or at some point, like the mountains, that is not monitored. Therefore, you may wish to ask our neighbors for their assistance about Cuban arrivals. As to any intelligence about what is going on in Cuba, look in Miami and ask the US. There is a huge network of Cuban Americans who want to see a regime change in Cuba and have a wealth of information. See what they have and see what the US State Department can arrange to let us look at.
 

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Loic calls asks Hedgar Joover and asks whether the surge in requests for weapons permits is causing any concern from a law enforcement point of view.
"Also, does the fifty ducat fee cover the background check? With our manpower shortage, the last thing I want to do is tie up resources below cost, and thereby indirectly subsidize the gun purchaser. On second thought, you are too busy with real work, and this is just accounting. I'll dig through the reports, find out the real answer and raise the fee no matter what.

By the way, I have made the appropriate pitches for funding for more agents, based on your request."
 
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