Chapter 655 `Light of Peace` Exercise Prelude

"Boss, Colonel Doratabadi, the Iranian military officer stationed in the search, is here. Please meet you!" Lieutenant Colonel An Li, the enchanting secretary, walked into Li Mo's office and reported.

Li Mo is approving an application for the expansion of three military airports. Hearing the fox's words, he couldn't help raising his head and asking in surprise, "Iranian military officer?" What is he doing here?

Military officers stationed in various countries, if they have any official or private affairs, they are generally contacted by the department in charge of foreign affairs of the Somali National Defence Force. At present, the department in charge of foreign affairs in Somalia is a foreign affairs bureau under the General Staff. You don't have to report any work to yourself. This has crossed several levels of 'reporting'.

"Let him in!" Although Li Mo doesn't know the purpose of Colonel Doratabadi's coming here, the relationship between Somalia and Iran is now in the honeymoon period, and Li Mo will not give Iran face.

Soon, a man in a military uniform in his forties followed the fox, and Li Mo couldn't help looking at it.

When the Iranian military officer entered the office, there was a trace of respect on his face, but Li Mo felt that the trace of respect was too obvious.

After saluting each other, Colonel Doratabadi finally made his intention. Iran's political axe hopes to hold a small-scale exercise jointly with Somalia in the near future. The purpose is to support the second multi-party talks on the "four nuclear issue" in Riyadh.

Li Moding took a look at the serious colonel, but he was guessing the real purpose of Iran's political axe. It is possible to build momentum for the representatives of the four countries in Riyadh's second talks. Is there any other purpose? Li Mo soon thought of Luo Xiang and the Libyan military, who were preparing for the joint exercise of Lissot Special Forces.

"Ye-en, I agree with your country's proposal. However, I don't think the scale of this joint exercise can be too large, and the site of the exercise can't be in the Persian Gulf. Although Li Mo did not know the reason for Iran's move, he was very interested in this joint exercise and agreed with a slight thought.

"General Li, we have the same opinion. It is believed that at this time, although it is necessary to give some solidarity to Riyadh, it cannot arouse the serious vigilance of all countries. Therefore, it is appropriate to limit the scale of the exercise to a certain extent. If your country agrees to hold a small-scale joint exercise, our political axe hopes to choose somewhere in the Arabian Sea or the Gulf of Aden. Colonel Doratabadi made an excited proposal.

Li Mo frowned slightly, and he disagreed with the location chosen by Colonel Doratabadi. Both places are ** areas, although they are not as good as the Persian Gulf, they are not much different. Especially in the Gulf of Aden, various [***] ships are gathered, and the sea area is not large. Holding joint exercises here is easy to cause accidents.

And Li Mo didn't understand the excited look of Colonel Doratabadi, as if the other party was a little impatient for the joint exercise.

With a silent cough, Li Mo smiled and said, "Coloner Doratabadi, I think that if we want to build momentum for the Riyadh talks, we can upgrade the Coi joint exercise to a multinational joint exercise. Just in time, Lieutenant Colonel Saifu, the commander of the Libyan special forces, proposed to hold a joint anti-terrorism exercise with our special forces two days ago, and China's political axe has agreed. I think it's better to identify the exercise arms as special forces. In this way, the scale is well controlled and the impact is strong enough.

Dora Tabadi was very interested in Li Mo's proposal just for hesitation. He also said that he would report to China immediately and wait for domestic approval.

The two discussed the 'joint anti-terrorism exercise' for a while, and Doratabadi hurriedly left the Ministry of Defense Building.

That night, Luo Xiang, the military commander of the third OECD member state, the commander of the Somali Special Forces, and Lieutenant Colonel Said, the commander of the Libyan Special Forces, had a discussion in a secret agency belonging to the military. The content of the discussion is about Li Mo's proposal to hold a 'five-country joint anti-terrorism exercise'.

Because the four countries of Iran, North Korea, Syria and Libya have agreed to the 'joint special forces exercise of the five countries', and the rest is that the representatives of the five countries discuss the time, place and other details of the exercise.

The code name of this exercise is 'Light of Peace', and the countries participating in the exercise are Somalia, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Libya. The arms of the exercise were established as special forces of various countries, and the number of people dispatched by each country was between 20-30.

Set up a joint commander of the exercise, composed of the top military officers of the five countries participating in the exercise, responsible for the specific planning, deployment and operation of the whole exercise.

In addition to conventional weapons, countries can send technical weapons including landing craft and helicopters.

The time of the exercise is confirmed to be July 1st, and the gathering time is June 15th, in the offshore waters of northeastern Somalia.

The content of the exercise is to go out from the sea, land and air at the same time to rescue the cargo ships and hostages taken by pirates.

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With the discussion of details, three hours have passed. The plan for a five-nation joint anti-terrorism exercise code-named "Light of Peace" has been confirmed. Of course, this is still an outline. The specific details will be discussed after the four-country-contributing drill troops arrive in Somalia and form a joint headquarters.

On June 15, 2007, all the troops of the five countries participating in the "Light of Peace Exercise" arrived in Bossaso, the capital of the Somali state of Bali. The Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Somali Defense Force came here in person and welcomed and made important speeches to a total of 200 officers and soldiers in the five countries.

It was at this time that the outside world knew that the five countries were silently holding a multi-country joint anti-terrorism exercise in Somalia.

For a moment, the international attention once again focused on the Somali Peninsula.

In international public opinion, it is analyzed that the purpose of this joint exercise is to hold a 'multi-party talks' in Riyadh. But Libya's participation surprised many people, and at the same time, they speculated whether Libya intends to join the Third Economic Organization?

The joint anti-terrorism exercise of the five countries is a very important event for the political axes of all countries in the world. Especially the United States. Everyone found that the five countries in the "Five-Nation Joint Anti-Terrorism Exercise" held this time have one thing in common, that is, they are 'unfriendly' to the political axe of the United States, or in the face of American hegemony, they did not choose to bow their heads and compromise, but intend to unite vertically and tie up the fragile chopsticks to enhance their resistance to pressure. The ability of.

Although the U.S. political axe wants to destroy this five-nation joint exercise, counter-terrorism is the clarion call of the United States that has been "promotion" internationally, with an obvious purpose of attack. Among the five countries involved, except for North Korea, the other four countries have been accused by the United States of providing help to terrorist organizations. So this time the five countries openly sing anti-terrorism songs, the U.S. political axe naturally has no reason to oppose, otherwise it will hit itself in the face.

The most unbearable thing is that while being wary of the increasingly close cooperation between the five countries and the four countries, it also pinched its nose to express its appreciation and congratulations on the actions of the five countries in counter-terrorism. Perhaps to complain, the United States is an informal occasion. Some officials still said that they should be cautious about the five countries' performance near the "narrow, civilian ships" traffic arteries, and even some hawks said in a "compassionate" and mocking tone whether the five-nation special forces exercises will be given to the sea. The passage of ships of various countries brings safety problems. In short, the meaning is to doubt the ability of the five-nation exercise, that is, the U.S. [***] team sometimes has some accidents during the exercise. The army of the five countries is obviously not as good as the U.S. [***] team. If there are some 'accidental accidents' in the exercise, the consequences will be serious.

In this regard, the officers and soldiers of the five countries who participated in the exercise did not react at all. The day after arriving in Somalia, the officers and soldiers participating in the exercise began to carry out some adaptation training in the mountains of northeastern Somalia.

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A 'family banquet' is being held in a private room of the Arabian Hotel. The family of Zhang Lixia's four daughters and Li Mo's family all gathered together.

"Two uncles, congratulations on your strong cooperation and a better career." Li Mo picked up his glass and looked at Tian Jianming and Zhang Zuoshan with a smile.

Tian Jianming went back last time to sell most of the domestic industry, leaving only one office in China. I brought the funds back to Somalia and planned to gain a foothold here. Later, after inspecting the Somali market, Zhang Zuoshan, under the persuasion of Li Mo, also planned to shift the focus of his career to Somalia. Although the people here are not familiar with each other, they are full of business opportunities everywhere. In addition, the son-in-law here is powerful enough to create an excellent external environment for them.

Li Mo's support is equal to the support of the political axe policy. Although Somalia is weak and poor, it is still enough to support their two shrimps. With the recovery of Somalia's economy, the sooner it enters this almost blank market, the greater the benefits will be.

Tian Jianming and Zhang Zuoshan have a combined family of three million US dollars, and they can also engage in many industries in Somalia. However, with Li Mo's support, the two still chose heavy industry to start a steel enterprise integrating from mining to smelting. Three million US dollars to engage in the steel industry is definitely far from enough. Li Mo has also invested 50 million US dollars in this enterprise, only half of the shares. The rest is divided equally between two people.

The total investment of steel enterprises is more than 50 million US dollars, and the scale is also very small. However, the company owns two small iron ores to provide ores, and the steel produced is also subcontracted by Li Mo's Star Company. The real investment is machinery and equipment and labor. It can be regarded as a profitable business.

"Haha, Xiao Mo said it well. Come on... Let's do one together." Zhang Zuoshan smiled cheerfully. Among these elders, he was most optimistic about Li Mo and had the best attitude towards Li Mo.

After three rounds of drinking, Li Mo provoked the topic again, "Uncle Tian and Uncle Zhang already have a steel factory. Uncle Liu and Uncle Cheng, haven't you decided yet?"

Zhang Zuoshan and Tian Jianming are businessmen and attach more importance to interests. The development in Somalia is obviously much more favorable than that in China. Cheng Qingfeng and Liu Zhengdong are officials, and they can't make up their minds for a long time. However, Li Mo knows that as Li Mo's 'father-in-law', there must be not much development in China's officialdom. Another point is that both of them are in their forties, and they are now department-level cadres. Even without the factor of Li Mo, it is difficult to say whether the two can cross the threshold of the hall level.

(to be continued)