Badara

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FREE BRIGADE ROUTED


General Hakim al-Afdal
 
MANARA  ALBRAYD SRIA AL-MUSAMI
(IF it’s in the Monsoon, it’s got to be true)
 
Al’Buqiyaa, May 22, 5648: Defense Minister Hakim al-Afdal issued the following statement from his headquarters at the Naval Base in the Port of Al’Buqiyaa:
 

Interior Ministry’s Internal Security Unit (ISU), our secret police, reported that the Free Brigade leadership in the town of Disuyana had decided to oppose efforts to retake the Port of Medaft on the coast northeast of Al’Buqiyaa.  Military intelligence from Lodamun confirmed entrenchments were being made on the highway southwest of Medaft, and it appeared there were quite a few light trucks and armed men headed in that direction.
 
Accordingly, two battalions of 1st Division infantry, and their divisional reconnaissance company began their march from Al’Buqiyaa to Medaft with a few attack helicopters for air cover and some divisional artillery in support.. The ISU reported that most of the Free Brigade defenders were armed with rifles and ammunition acquired from the Badaran Armed Forces at one time or another, that they had  a whole lot of small trucks, quite a few grenade launchers, a whole lot of submachine guns and a fair amount of anti tank rocket launchers.
 
The trucks carrying Free Brigade militia came from behind their entrenchments to challenge the head of the marching infantry column which thereupon deployed.  Accordingly we sent two squadrons of NDN – A -10 from Al’Buqiyaa subsonic close ground support gunships  and two squadrons of BMA  Saeqah fighter bombers armed with bombs. The NDN A- 10’s shot the trucks up badly destroying most while the BMA Saeqehs concentrated their bombs on the still entrenched militia which were also pounded by some divisional artillery.
 
Being destroyed in detail with no decent targets for a response took its toll, and the Free Brigade defense shortly collapsed with those who could get away fleeing in disorder and those who could not surrendering. 
 
We sent our two battalions of armor into Medaft first which was then occupied by elements of 1st Division.  Those two battalions of tanks then proceeded to Abu Yacub to the northeast. Both Medaft and Abu Yacub were undefended.
 
A squadron of attack helicopters reported Disuyana, Free Brigade Headquarters, was devoid of militia, so it too was occupied by elements of 2nd Division.  The ISU has reported when the defense of Medaft by Free Brigade militia collapsed, the leadership invoked “Plan B” which seems to be immediately dispersing and returning to usual professions in most cases  of assassins, burglars, armed robbers, drug traffickers, protection racketeers, bouncers, money launderers and book makers.
 
The ISU believes the Free Brigade leadership felt it was fun while it lasted but it was time to stand not on the order of their going but go at once.

The Defense Minister can report that the Muhafaza of Al'Baharia is now controlled by the military and is being returned to civilian control as that proves viable.

 
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