Badara

[Drax]

DUFAZI STILL OPERATING IN AL’SALMANIA
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(If it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Ras al-Ulima, May 22, 5646: The Monsoon interviewed Interior Minister Bandar al-Qasabi at his field headquarters in the Port of Ras al-Ulima and asked if progress was being made to reclaim Al’Salmania from the Dufazi.  Qasabi responded:
 

Our plan was for the military to seize and occupy the naval base, airfields and forts in and around Ras al-Ulima. Which they did without opposition.  We then restored police control using National Police. Since then the Muhafaza Government and the municipal government have returned to functioning normally albeit within Ras al-Ulima and adjacent areas.
 
The heavily armed Special Security Forces (SSF) including their helicopter gunships of the Interior Ministry then moved into the Ports of Sutan and Kharma. Dufazi representatives and units withdrew as they advanced.
 
At this juncture local police and National Police, national government offices, together with the municipal and Al’Salmania  Muhaza governments are functioning in much of Al’ Salmania. 
 
But not all. In the mountains and hills around Bab al-Mira, the paramilitary units of Abadi cleric Moqtada al-Dufaz (the Dufazi) are entrenched, his religious thought police are hard at work, and he is in control. This according to military intelligence from Lodamun and the Internal Security Unit (ISU) of the Interior Ministry.
 
I have interesting news however from Ivrahim Duqaq, General Director of Intelligence (GIS).  His operatives are in contact with Moqtada al-Dufaz who claims he wants to talk rather than fight. GIS has assured him I am contacting the Ministerial Presidium recommending we agree to a meeting that includes Justice Minister Bashir ibn Ortoq.
 
Too soon to get overly hopeful, but we  may be on the way to a negotiated end to anarchy in Al’salmania.

Interior Minister Bandar al-Qasabi