Intrigue

A unit of 5 U.S. Marines Corps soldiers is ordered to conduct a search in a suburb of Baghdad.

We write in the year 2005, and the Iraq war has become extremely bloody. American soldiers are dying every day. The war seems lost.

The Marines arrive at a villa, with a wall around the property.

They force the lock, and open the outside door to the compound. It is a rusted metal door.

Cautiously, 3 marines walk across the grounds to the front door. 2 Marines keep watch outside, with their index finger on the trigger of their M16 rifles. They hold up the barrels of their automatic weapons.

Arriving at the front door of the villa, the Marines politely ring the bell. The door is opened by 3 children. Soon the father and mother also arrive.

The marines say they want to search the bathroom of the villa, and that if they resist they will use force.

They are allowed to enter. They walk straight to the bathroom, which according to Iraqi tradition is at the back of the building. There they loosen tiles in the right wall.

Behind the tiles are documents, wrapped in plastic. They leave the villa with the find, and head toward the 2 marines standing guard outside the compound.

Once there, they all begin to study the documents. It turns out to be nothing less than an elaborate floor plan of the US Congress Building in Washington!

The Marines start cursing, and immediately call the Pentagon. Soon an AWAC spy plane approaches. The plane with the big round radar on top, will start flying around high in the sky over the suburb.

After 15 minutes, a command car from the CIA will arrive. It is some kind of large van, all white in color. Several men and women in civilian clothes get out , and take care of the map.

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A very small unit of 2 Green Berets is requested to patrol the U.S. Congress Building in the U.S. capital.

They see a vagrant loitering in front of the large imposing building. He has a lot of clothes on, but asks no one for money.

The Green Berets carefully move toward him. They call out from a distance of 5 meters, telling him to say his name! He refuses to do so!!!

The Green Berets walk around him, trying to force him to say his name. But he remains silent in all languages.

Suddenly 2 black passenger cars drive by, with dark windows.

The tramp makes all kinds of gestures to the cars. The Green Berets now leave the tramp behind and run frantically after the speeding black cars. There is a lot of traffic in front of them, and they start honking!

The Green Berets don’t hesitate for a second, and pull out large pistols-known as magnums-from their leather jackets. They aim at the rear black car. The one in front is gone in a flash.

They stop running now and fire their pistols. The bullets from their magnums fly through the rear window of the rear black car. They hit the driver’s head. His skull splatters open, and his brain falls out. The car comes to a stop.

The Green Berets run toward the car. They immediately inspect it thoroughly.

This is what they find: no trace of identity on the driver’s body. No papers anywhere. In the trunk: 4 fake license plates.

Pedestrians from all over come to them, to see what is going on.

However, this case will never be solved. Many more incidents like this will follow.

THE END

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