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Halliberg paced back and forth in the luxurious hotel room, wondering again and again whether staying here was a waste of time.He has been in Riyadh for almost two weeks, but it can be said that no progress has been made.He talked to every hotel worker and a lot of people in the CIA.During this period, Crete also summoned him again and answered all his questions earnestly, but in the end he still maintained his original point of view and refused to make any concessions.Even Halliberg himself had to admit that there was no good reason to disarm all security personnel. Crete even made him aware of the full security plan, as proof of respect for Halliberg's opinion.Halliberg couldn't find any openings.Everything Crete did was exactly what he set out to do.From a common sense point of view, it is impossible for terrorists to have the opportunity to threaten the meeting.He can be sure that the Baghdad incident may have something to do with external forces, or it is unlikely to repeat itself here.

All cooking in the restaurant is in the charge of chefs from the CIA, and the ingredients are flown in from the United States.Even the drinking water of the restaurant does not use Riyadh's public water system, but starts a closed water recycling system.This system was specially installed for this summit.The tap water that Halliberg uses to shower every morning has been cleaned and reprocessed by special chemicals, which cost a lot of money, similar to the water filtration system of the space station.To be honest, there is no possibility of terrorists sneaking in, or somehow disrupting the summit.

Pensyche's reports from Halliberg grew increasingly intolerable.He asked Halliberg if he knew how much the military paid for his room in the luxury hotel in Riyadh per day.The Treasury Department has started to follow up on the expense.Halliberg knew his boss and understood that it was stress that made him nervous.It would be nice to find even a small loophole, but Jim.Crete really lived up to expectations. Halliberg wondered many times whether he should go home, but something told him something might be wrong here.So, he stayed and used this room as an office, searching the Internet. He searched for all articles similar to the Baghdad incident in professional publications, professional discussions on medical and psychological networks, blogs and chat rooms, consulted dozens of reports on massacres of civilians, and even studied all the An introduction to the Norse Berserker.There are many different explanations for the phenomenon of Nordic warriors falling into a mad drunken state with the help of alcohol and drugs, abnormal heroism, pain reduction and overcoming all obstacles, but none of them resembles the incident in Baghdad.Not only on the military or civilian networks, there is no clue to explain the Baghdad incident.What a frustrating experience!

His laptop rang softly.A new email came in, the daily security report from the NSA.Halliberg skimmed the full text: bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan, armed standoffs in Sudan, Somalia, and Indonesia are a daily occurrence.And in more than two dozen countries, extremist groups have provoked angry protests against upcoming peace summits. These events are insignificant compared with the disputes between the great powers that nearly destroyed the continent in the twentieth century.However, the world just doesn't seem to want peace. Halliberg took another look at the anti-terrorism warning.Warnings are divided into five levels: Level 1 is the least threatening, and Level 5 is the highest and most urgent.If the information comes from only one source, but the source is unreliable, it is classified as a first-class warning; the second-class warning indicates that the source is reliable, or the information has been verified by an independent second person; the third-class warning indicates that the information has been confirmed by multiple reliable sources: four Class 5 and class 5 indicate that the information came from inside, or was provided by an insider, or was obtained through tapped phone calls, satellite phones, or stolen emails.

Today's warning level is only down to level three.One involved the US embassy in Pakistan, while the other, less detailed, related to planned terrorist attacks in London, Munich and Sydney.Halliberg was disturbed by the absence of a level four or five anti-terrorism warning.At this moment, terrorists all over the world certainly want to carry out terrorist attacks.The inability to issue a high-level early warning at such a time can only mean that the National Security Bureau is not aware of the terrorists' dynamics at all. He noted a second-level warning report of an incident at the US embassy in Khartoum.A German woman has been detained after attacking embassy guards.She claimed that she and her colleagues were kidnapped by terrorists and escaped.She warned that a man named NarifTerrorists in Olduma intend to attack an upcoming peace summit.According to the CIA file, this Narif.Auduma was classified as potentially dangerous because of his Western education.A CIA operative named Anderson listed the source as reliable, so it was listed as a Level 2 warning even though it had not been verified by any internal or external sources.A brief comment from the CIA Headquarters stated that this incident sounded extremely unconvincing, and it was probably a delusion produced by the German woman who was traumatized by the kidnappers.

The news alarmed Halliberg in several ways: It was unusual for a German woman to break into the U.S. embassy, ​​and even more extraordinary for her to attack guards just to be heard.But in other words, it does fit the symptoms of a paranoid patient.Only, this time it involved the peace conference in Riyadh. Halliberg connected to the NSA desk through a pipe and requested a transcript of Khartoum's interrogation.Ten minutes later, he turned on the high-tech phone.