Val picked up the pitcher with one hand and poured it into a cup. He emptied half of the cup before saying, “Thank you.”
“Now then,” he continued, “the 1971 DuVall Rugby Terror attack. The official report was that the terrorists responsible for the execution of both the rugby teams states that they escaped. The unofficial report, is vastly different. In the files mentioned before are the VHS tapes of their interrogation, confessions, and other statements. It is not for the weak stomached, I will admit.”
“There are also photographs of the terrorists bodies, with a rather unique tattoo present on all of them. A triangular backdrop with a red fist, thumb extended, and three letters that spell out ‘GPB’. The Genoshan Party of Brotherhood. Investigations, which are also included in the files, are linked that tattoo, stretching back to terror attacks even before the 1971 Rugby Attack. I have also mentioned that we have sent telegrams to the Genoshan Regime asking for their help in these efforts to quell such organizations. We never send any diplomatic letters of the sort, we have always kept things to ourselves.”
"After failure once again by the Genoshan government to refuse to help, we had enough. The Genoshan Bush Wars started that same year in 1971. It was a clandestine war that was tasked to the Marine Force Recon units. The goal was to find the members of the Genoshan Party of Brotherhood and put an end to it. "
He paused for a minute, looking at the accompanying staff then resuming, “One thing your intelligence agency might have missed is that I have fought in the Bush Wars as a former Force Recon. We have photographs confirming the hits done on the GPB members, more VHS tapes on high ranking individuals inside the GPB and Genoshan government. Interrogations and statements that confirmed the GPB’s involvement in the attacks, and future events. Thanks to this measure, we have severely cut the number of bombings down, along with murders of political and military members in Rhodesia.”
“I was in from 1989 to 1992, three years of a 21 year clandestine war that even the public in my nation never heard of, save for those few rumors that float around. The Bush Wars ended when the Genoshan Party of Brotherhood decided they had enough of waking up in the middle of the night and finding burly men surrounding their bed,” he said while chuckling at the end.
After a few seconds the chuckling subsided before saying, “The Bush Wars ended in 1992, we pulled out then since a major threat to the Rhodesians and our way of life was gone. Afterwards we enjoyed a very peaceful stretch of years until 2014, the bombing of our Secretary of Defense, Ronald Sung.”
Saar’bac thought to himself, “All orchestrated. Ronald Sung was a pansy and wanted less military spending. Thank god James Reagan was nominated, a real boon to the Defense Industry.”
Val resumed, “And that’s when the old wounds from before reopened. We have claimed that we will find the perpetrators, but the public doesn’t know who did it. The Special Activities Division, our version of your intelligence agency, has tracked down the origins of the bomb. It pointed to a former member of the GPB who still lived in Genosha. Again, we tried asking the Genoshans via a private manner instead of a official diplomatic message for help. Guess who refused to comment or help?”
The Vice President’s throat was now dry again. He grabbed the cup that was poured a while ago and finished it. After the last drop went down his tube, he breathed out a audible sigh. Val leaned forward on the chair, his elbows resting on his knees.
“The investigation into Ronald Sung’s assassination lead somewhere, but it was a dead end. It wasn’t until the Econo-Attack, the bank attack that held servers responsible for keeping our stock market running, and around five percent of our gold reserves. There were backup servers, but they have gotten smart and blew those up too.”
“The findings of the Econo-Attack at the IBBC bank has pinpointed a handful of the individuals responsible to be of Genoshan nationality. They have escaped with the gold and several million dollars worth of various forms of currency via a subway tunnel that ran underneath. They took the train and went to Cape Hope, the very same town that was blown up by the cruise missiles.”
“From there, they loaded the contents of the bank into a shipping container, and then proceeded to load it onto the ship, the MS Konolov. We have CD recordings and witness statements confirming the loading of the stolen gold and money onto the vessel.The Konolov has sailed in a southernly direction towards Genosha, as confirmed by SonarBuoy hits.”
Val started looking a little apprehensive, before calmly saying, “SonarBuoy is a rather classified oceanic monitoring system that Rhodesia uses to track ships more effectively instead of radar hits or radio. Buoys are typically used to track waves and warn of a rouge wave or possible hurricanes. What we have done in the 90s was outfitted these buoys with more wave sensitive equipment, as a result, we can differentiate between a passing ship and the waves, unless it’s bad storm. Anyways, these SonarBuoy hits confirm the direction where the ship went, and it allowed us to track it down for questioning.”
“We caught up to the Konolov, and attempted to slow it down via warnings. However, it refused and so the frigate responsible, the RS Volker, fired a shot into the aft section of the hull. The shot crippled the engines and forced the container ship to a halt. Marines boarded the ship and were under fire. We lost two lives but managed to take down 11 of the perps. Each of them had the GPB’s tattoo. The crew were unarmed and unscathed, and they were brought on-board the Volker for questioning.”
“There was a Free Pacifican on board but he was cleared and considered not a threat after a few days. So was the rest of the crew. However, their testimonies were the disturbing fact. Again, there are the CDs and witness statements, along with their signatures confirming their testimonies. They said that they were being paid by Serenitech to transport that crate. There were no conflicting reports from the crew too.”
He breathed for a few seconds, then continuing, “As natural, we started investigating Serenitech but that led nowhere. Someone or some group was good at hiding their trails.”
“That’s it for the history lesson and the lead up,” the felidae said, finally laying back into the chair. “The Cape Hope Cruise Missile attack happened. Our maritime patrol aircraft, RP-3C Albatrosses, had radar hits early in the morning. The cruise missiles flew at very low level, basically skimming the waves. Then began the slaughter of our people. We had enough data on where the cruise missiles came from, which we will share with you, that pointed directly to Genosha. If that wasn’t enough, there were salvaged parts of the missiles that were coded with a launch location, just west of Hammer Bay, the capitol of them. A few plates of metal survived, saying ‘Death to the Rhodesians’ and one of them had the insignia of the Genoshan government.”
“And then, the rest is history,” he said, finally ending the speech. “I apologize, I hate speeches, makes me sound preachy.”
