Chapter 749 Jack’s doubts and unexpected explosion
The offices of NSA and DHS in New York are only a few blocks away from Federal Plaza. Jubal contacted Dana Moge at NSA, and Jack contacted Hotchner at DHS. Made the call.
He informed Hotchner of the details of the original tetrodotoxin case and the recent federal building collar bomb case, and raised his suspicions from the perspective of the parties involved.
An hour later, Dana Moger and Rosie sent back a message. The NSA confirmed Jack's guess. Through reverse verification, they found a fund flow of US$3 million.
After the money flowed out of a certain virtual currency trading center, it was split into countless small amounts of less than 100 US dollars, and eventually entered several suspicious accounts. The NSA had reason to believe that these accounts were related to "Dark Jihad".
"So 'DarkJihad' now has money, a huge amount of money that is enough to pay for more than a dozen suicide attackers. This is probably just the first advance payment, and the remaining money will remain in the virtual currency account for the time being. Go.”
Jack was speechless. Just because the other party paid the capital gains tax honestly, the NSA missed the money. Could it be that the people in charge of these guys are all from the IRS? Digging it?
Dana Moger also confirmed Jack’s speculation on the phone, “The identity of the attack suspect killed by Emily is not in any known criminal database, and we don’t even know he is from the country. The residents are also stowaways, which is in line with the usual style of 'DarkJihad'.
In addition to recruiting believers online, they are also good at finding young believers from local moderate believer families and brainwashing them into suicide attackers. "
Schrödinger's moderation and extremeness, Jack said that he has become accustomed to this. You can never tell whether the other party is an extremist or a moderate before pulling off the bomb vest.
But Rossi raised a new question, "My old friend in the CIA told me that there are forces in Bolivia that are pushing for negotiations with the federal government to extradite Anthony Vargas. If this information is true, it will be the same as Jack's." Contradictions arose.
Why would they use a terrorist attack as a threat to release this guy? This will only reduce the possibility of extradition to zero."
"The Ministry of Justice has. Maybe they would agree to extradition from Bolivia? No, the CIA was involved?" Jack heard what he meant and thought it was weird, but then he thought about it, this was considered a routine operation by the CIA, and he almost got bombed before. It's the FBI. Even if it wasn't, it wouldn't have exploded.
There was a hint of sarcasm in Rossi's voice, "Yes, at least someone within the CIA agrees. It is said that the other party may make some offers that people cannot refuse."
Consider. Looking at Rossi's personal connections, this news should be more credible. Jack hesitantly raised another possibility, "Could it be that there is internal strife in the Durange drug cartel? Someone wants to get ahead, so they might as well use this method. Completely eliminate the possibility of Anthony Vargas’ extradition?”
During the Xi'an Incident on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, when the bald man was detained, a certain big boss named He staged a white-coated oath and directly sent out the air force to bomb. He said he wanted to rescue the leader, but in fact he hoped to force the two generals Zhang and Yang to make a desperate move. Machine to remove bald head.
“It’s not impossible.” Rossi was also surprised by Jack’s imagination, “But is this operation too complicated? I will discuss it with my old friends from the CIA.
However, it is said that the resistance to extradition is not currently within the federation, but is firmly opposed by the Bolivian presidential faction. Well, the political situation in this country is somewhat chaotic, and a provisional government is currently in power. "
True. What a mess. Jack has only one comment on this. This is also the tragedy of a small Latin American country. Bolivia is rich in minerals and natural resources, but the country's economic pillar is coca cultivation.
The political situation in this impoverished small Latin American country is chaotic, and various forces are entrenched. The reasons behind it are complicated to say, but in the final analysis, there is only one, interference from external forces.
After hanging up the phone, Jack called Hotchner and Joyner who were still at DHS to report the latest information.
Putting aside issues such as extradition for the time being, it will be easier to confirm that the Durange drug cartel is related to "Dark Jihad". The NSA's monitoring of the activities of domestic terrorist organizations is quite good, and a terrorist attack plan is finally over. Finding out that everyone is undercover is no joke.
Now that the direction is confirmed, the specific executor behind the scenes should be identified soon.
Maybe the FBI and NYPD can hold a joint press conference again before noon tomorrow. They announced to the public that the murderer was killed purely to confuse the other party and take advantage of their plan. But now the truth has almost been revealed. DHS has sent crisis support teams to the eight areas where attacks have occurred to investigate suspicious situations and will continue to monitor and observe.
"OK, Joyner and I are preparing to leave DHS. They are cooperating with the NYPD and will set up multiple emergency command centers. We are ready to catch them."
Jack from Hodge On Na's phone, he heard the ding-dong sound of the elevator arriving at the floor.
“Multiple?” He was a little confused.
"Yes, this is also the lesson the NYPD learned after 9/11. That day they fully understood how many eggs would break if you put them in one basket."
Hotchner should be right. It was the collapse of the Twin Towers that caused the emergency command center to be completely wiped out. The entire rescue command level, including the New York Fire Department chief, was wiped out, leaving the subsequent accident rescue in a state of no command for a long time.
"OK, then you should go back to the headquarters as soon as possible. I will contact the others. As long as we get through tonight safely, it will be our turn to take action."
Jack hung up the phone and talked to Emily one by one. After finishing contacting Hannah and Jiejie, they breathed a sigh of relief. The mastermind behind the scenes had surfaced, and the rest was just a matter of time.
Now we can only hope that the NSA will be more powerful and find out the true identity of the mastermind as soon as possible so that he can come and arrest people. It is now 9 o'clock in the evening, and theoretically we still have 15 hours.
Previous street attacks all occurred at noon, which means that the time when the other party may launch an attack should also be at noon. That is when the streets of New York are crowded with tourists. A bomb attack by the other party can cause Maximum casualties.
But Jack still felt a little uneasy. It was not surprising that the Durange drug cartel and "Dark Jihad" merged, but the final motive was a little unclear.
It is normal for "Dark Jihad" to make any kind of noise, creating a terrorist attack that shocked the world and issuing a so-called declaration, but the operation carried out by the Durange drug cartel is really puzzling.
Rosie's previous words have always been lingering in Jack's mind. If they want to save their leader, they are actually doing nothing now, or the best solution is to force the presidential faction to surrender in Bolivia and pass an extradition agreement.
Are you really not afraid that Anthony Vargas will choke to death when he drinks water in prison?
If someone really wants to kill Anthony Vargas in this way as he suspected, it would be better to wait until he is extradited back to Bolivia to do it.
Whether it is sending gunmen or carrying out bomb attacks, it is much simpler. At least there is no need to use a fund of nearly ten million US dollars and take the risk of confronting the "world police". Nowadays, although the United States is increasingly It's declining, but it's far from the time to stop using the knife.
Just as Jack continued to clean his gun and think wildly, there was a sudden explosion, and the alarms of the cars parked below the Federal Building were vibrated, and they all started to scream.
"Where did the explosion happen?"
"What happened?"
Almost everyone in the combat center rushed to the window, and only two buildings on the east side of the federal building were visible. A street away, fires shot into the sky, and thick black smoke shot straight into the sky under the light of the fires.
(End of this chapter)