Serenierre
Established Nation
Directorate for Foreign Intelligence & Security
Shahdara, SKD
The DFIS - or the Directorate for short - was a shady organisation. In official ledgers, it did not exist. In reality, this brutal sub-branch of the Grand Council for Intelligence had operations going on in nearly every nation of the world. The latest work of the agency had been an attack on the Sikandari embassy in Solis - all in an effort to dirty the image of the Aurarians before the world. The Directorate headquarters was an unassuming building in a quiet corner of the Government Quarter of the imperial citadel - surrounded by the premises of the National Archives and the Employment Bureau. The main entrance of the directorate was well hidden from sight.
Inside the building, in the office of the man in charge of all operations in Himyar (Major Ghani), six men were sitting and hearing the details of the Directorate's efforts in the country of Cadim. Ever since oil had been found in the country, influential people in Shahdara had started paying more attention to the forsaken country. For decades, no one in Shahdara had bothered to look into the plight of the Muslims being oppressed by the Aurarian Christians, but that was before oil and before the tensions with Auraria.
In that meeting a most daring plan was hatched. In a week's time, a small company of operatives would leave for Cadim via Längerland. They would be travelling under false identities. They had been chosen for their ethnically ambiguous features. The group of ten would rendezvous with contacts from the Directorate's Sarik bureau who would funnel them through the country deep into the Muslim heartland of the country. The agents would then proceed to scout villages, neither too big nor too small, where they would begin their assignment. These ten men would further be joined by twenty or so other operatives who were already based in the country to augment their numbers. These men knew nothing of the mission details and were simply to follow the orders of their superiors.
On Friday, as the men of these Muslim villages would be leaving their mosques, the men would barge into the main squares of the village in jeeps. These modified jeeps had standard military grade machine guns mounted on them. The jeeps had the livery of the Cadimi military upon it. Immediately they were to take control of the village and force the populace to present itself in the main square. The reason for this strange visit would be that they were looking for a traitor. When the populace was accounted for, they were to indiscriminately open fire. No man, woman, or child was to be left. No amount of cruelty was enough. After making sure that the people were dead - or sufficiently injured so as to not move - they were to blow up the mosque and set fire to as much of the village as they could. This horrific scene was to be photographed and every effort was to be made to have it look like covert photography - to enhance its legitimacy in the eyes of the critical press.
When the grizzly task was complete, they were to vanish from the scene. This last part was not difficult as the Directorate had invested in setting up a number of safe houses in this part of the country.
As soon as confirmation would arrive in the Directorate's bureau in Sarik of the successful operation, which was signalled by the broadcasting of a famous Arabic romance song telling the story of Leila and Majnun on a particular frequency, the Directorate's machinery in the capitals of [MENTION=18]Eiffelland[/MENTION] and [MENTION=19]Längerland[/MENTION]
would start proceed to make sure that the local media in those countries was picking up on chatter which would alert them of something wrong happening in Cadim. In time for the news on Monday, journalists in Längerland would find themselves in possession of anonymous tips and the grizzly pictures would be on the desk of the editor of the largest daily in that country.
In Cadim, itself, the Directorate would be working to print up large quantities of pamphlets which they would spread across the Badi region by using the web of religious charities and criminal connections which would perpetuate the Sikandari propaganda. By the next Friday, if things went smoothly, the news of the Aurariano attack on the Badi Muslims would have spread across the country like wildfire - even if the government would have tried to repress the reporting. Such things always had a way of travelling. The Badi had to be awoken. This tragedy would provide the jolt they needed.
Back in Shahdara, when public channels would communicate this atrocity, the Imperial Government would obviously be shocked and devastated at the carnage but would urge the international community to allow the Cadimi police system to proceed at its pace. Shahdara, it would seem, was intent on playing with both sides - at least for now.
[MENTION=945]Cadim[/MENTION]
OOC: Thought I'd kick it off in a big way. Sorry if its too much.
Shahdara, SKD
The DFIS - or the Directorate for short - was a shady organisation. In official ledgers, it did not exist. In reality, this brutal sub-branch of the Grand Council for Intelligence had operations going on in nearly every nation of the world. The latest work of the agency had been an attack on the Sikandari embassy in Solis - all in an effort to dirty the image of the Aurarians before the world. The Directorate headquarters was an unassuming building in a quiet corner of the Government Quarter of the imperial citadel - surrounded by the premises of the National Archives and the Employment Bureau. The main entrance of the directorate was well hidden from sight.
Inside the building, in the office of the man in charge of all operations in Himyar (Major Ghani), six men were sitting and hearing the details of the Directorate's efforts in the country of Cadim. Ever since oil had been found in the country, influential people in Shahdara had started paying more attention to the forsaken country. For decades, no one in Shahdara had bothered to look into the plight of the Muslims being oppressed by the Aurarian Christians, but that was before oil and before the tensions with Auraria.
In that meeting a most daring plan was hatched. In a week's time, a small company of operatives would leave for Cadim via Längerland. They would be travelling under false identities. They had been chosen for their ethnically ambiguous features. The group of ten would rendezvous with contacts from the Directorate's Sarik bureau who would funnel them through the country deep into the Muslim heartland of the country. The agents would then proceed to scout villages, neither too big nor too small, where they would begin their assignment. These ten men would further be joined by twenty or so other operatives who were already based in the country to augment their numbers. These men knew nothing of the mission details and were simply to follow the orders of their superiors.
On Friday, as the men of these Muslim villages would be leaving their mosques, the men would barge into the main squares of the village in jeeps. These modified jeeps had standard military grade machine guns mounted on them. The jeeps had the livery of the Cadimi military upon it. Immediately they were to take control of the village and force the populace to present itself in the main square. The reason for this strange visit would be that they were looking for a traitor. When the populace was accounted for, they were to indiscriminately open fire. No man, woman, or child was to be left. No amount of cruelty was enough. After making sure that the people were dead - or sufficiently injured so as to not move - they were to blow up the mosque and set fire to as much of the village as they could. This horrific scene was to be photographed and every effort was to be made to have it look like covert photography - to enhance its legitimacy in the eyes of the critical press.
When the grizzly task was complete, they were to vanish from the scene. This last part was not difficult as the Directorate had invested in setting up a number of safe houses in this part of the country.
As soon as confirmation would arrive in the Directorate's bureau in Sarik of the successful operation, which was signalled by the broadcasting of a famous Arabic romance song telling the story of Leila and Majnun on a particular frequency, the Directorate's machinery in the capitals of [MENTION=18]Eiffelland[/MENTION] and [MENTION=19]Längerland[/MENTION]
would start proceed to make sure that the local media in those countries was picking up on chatter which would alert them of something wrong happening in Cadim. In time for the news on Monday, journalists in Längerland would find themselves in possession of anonymous tips and the grizzly pictures would be on the desk of the editor of the largest daily in that country.
In Cadim, itself, the Directorate would be working to print up large quantities of pamphlets which they would spread across the Badi region by using the web of religious charities and criminal connections which would perpetuate the Sikandari propaganda. By the next Friday, if things went smoothly, the news of the Aurariano attack on the Badi Muslims would have spread across the country like wildfire - even if the government would have tried to repress the reporting. Such things always had a way of travelling. The Badi had to be awoken. This tragedy would provide the jolt they needed.
Back in Shahdara, when public channels would communicate this atrocity, the Imperial Government would obviously be shocked and devastated at the carnage but would urge the international community to allow the Cadimi police system to proceed at its pace. Shahdara, it would seem, was intent on playing with both sides - at least for now.
[MENTION=945]Cadim[/MENTION]
OOC: Thought I'd kick it off in a big way. Sorry if its too much.