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Message no. 1
From: Brion Wauters <stu137@****.COCO.CC.AZ.US>
Subject: Yemen Sitaution
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:26:09 -0700
>>>>>[Nicely done counter-strike. I'd love to know how the Rebels summoned
up
all that ordanince. From all the reports, they where on their last
legs.

What I really want to know is, where is the Yemen national army?! The
Sultan/President/Grand Vizer (whatever they have) can't be too happy
about what amounts to an invading army loose in his country. If Akabar
manages to regroup and pull this off, he'll be cutting-off a major sorce
of Yemen's income, won't he? So where's the local troops? All we've
been hearing about is the trouble the Rebels are giving Akbar.]<<<<<
-- Irish <15:26:15/17-11-58>
Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Yemen Sitaution
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:43:33 +0000
*****PRIVATE: Irish
+++++relay via tacstation Aden-42
>>>>>[Irish, we always had the ordnance. The problem was getting it
there. Luckily, Lilith remembered something a friend mentioned, and we
chartered two PARWIG transports. A thousand tons of cargo each, at 300
knots, with the endurance to run from Olympia to Manila, refuel, run
through to Dodge, tank again, and drop our guys off pierside at the
Hawker quay.

New enough that most people don't consider them. But it's the difference
between moving a mech battalion in days, and in weeks.

We're bugging out and we're doing just fine. We've already been
contacted about being pointmen for the retaliation: the Powers that Be
are _not_ happy about Akbar and want him crushed.

As for the Yemeni army... they're still sitting in their barracks
chewing khat. Hawker's extraterritorial in Yemen, they don't make much
odds to the governmnent either way, and the Yemenis are more worried
about Akbar pushing south and seizing Sana'a than about liberating some
Yanqui mines.

Besides, the Yemeni Army are barely a match for Akbar: that tell you how
bad they are?

When I get back I'll talk properly. We could use your help, if you want
to do some merc work: Akbar's got eighteen of our people and sixty
Hawker personnel. We want them back. Soon. That's nothing to do with
possible Corporate Court retaliation, this is us protecting our people.
We do _not_ abandon our POWs and WIAs.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <00:43:25/11-18-58>
Message no. 3
From: Brion Wauters <stu137@****.COCO.CC.AZ.US>
Subject: Re: Yemen Sitaution
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:48:28 -0700
*****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[I'm not sure when you'll get this, but yeh, I'll take some merc work.
Nice job on the bug-out, to bad you lost your friendly news coverage.
You proabably could have used that report to stir up support back home.
Maybe even got extra recruits to replace the Rebels losses, if you'd
played it right. Ah well, spilt milk and all that (I never did get the
point of that expression).]<<<<<
-- Irish <09:48:45/21-11-58>

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