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From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Undercover
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 17:47:44 +0000
***** Private: Lynch
>>>>>[ Jason, I decoded this whole document from our agent for your
perusal.

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Kitsune, the night does not rule the sun. Please decode for Fenris.

+++++ encoded transmission burst included
[Document was originally encoded Japanese.]

Kitsune, I sure hope you remember what I am referencing. Otherwise,
this message will fall on deaf ears and sound like a bunch of
Japanese babble occasional quoting the Koran. Since I need to make
this short and sweet here goes.

I am as well as could be expected. Akbar is an average leader. For
those who desert, he promises a miserable death that would make the
Wanderer look kind. For those who are stragglers, myself and a dozen
others that I found he just has some contempt for those who fall
behind.

I haven't had much a time to yet judge Akbar's personal defenses, but
I am pretty confident that when the time comes, I can reach him and drop
him. Magical defenses are all but nonexistent.

Efforts on all three mines are underway to restore production. They
are trying to "convince" the prisoners to assist in this process. It
involves a couple of cheap interrogation techniques for the men
(using the gajin as examples as to what happens) and gang rape (as
well) for the women. Fragging bloody infidels. I love the realities
of war.

The brigade that attacked Camp Two is finished as far as active
participants in the ongoing fight with the gajin. The remaining
members of the brigade are being sent to reinforce the guards at the
camp where the PoWs are being held. Their defense against ambush is
pathetic. The command staff had the troops sitting in trucks facing
outward with weapons ready. Of course it was a day trip without the
canvas covers, so addition to tensions rising, the troops baked.
Moral is pretty poor.

I saw on the trip to Al Zariyah more evidence of the Rebel's presence
beside the obvious airflights going on; I counted at least six dead
vehicles (I think a BMP and five trucks). A more positive sign is that
the gajin have won the night battle. They are absolutely terrified of
the night. The PoWs number 92. Guards (including myself) number 124.

My recommendation if I were to commit treason and be to accomplish this:
Take a small force and infiltrate at dusk. In the dead of night, start
crippling them, and have a significant diversionary raid go off at one
of the "secure" camps. After the raid starts and communication traffic
gets confused, start to "mutiny" at the camp. At the precise you have
the camp in total chaos (which wouldn't be hard), send in a series of
small death squads. The infiltraters flee to the holding area for the
PoWs and protect the prisoners from the obvious effort to kill them when
it looks like the PoW camp is going to be overrun. From their just
fight through the camp. Their night gear is weak and the breakdown in
military protocol is astounding. The time is ripe. Especially since
rumor says Akbar has a safe source of weapons coming real soon. And oh,
don't trust the PoWs. Despite the poor techniques used in breaking
them, they should be treated as broken as far as this conflict goes.
Unreliable and unstable.

Alas, it is my sad duty to defend this camp from the obvious, even
though these fools don't realize the advantage they have given a
reasonably intelligent enemy. Still to do my idea, one would have to
rely on the fact that there are no night patrols from this camp. I
suppose we can count our blessings that nobody sane would ever risk the
penalty of being a traitor to the gajin. Maybe I'll get home in a
couple of weeks. Assuming Akbar can win the day fight like he claims he
is.
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One note, Jason: The Japanese he used to indicate fact means it is a
fact that can be easily proven. If he is accurate, we need to
implement an attack as soon as possible. ]<<<<<
-- Shadowfox <17:43:24/11-25-58>

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