Kalistani Major History

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Liberty Brigade compound raided
Shock early morning raid surprises Militant Group
Reynoldia, Duchy of Suldanor
September 30, 5554


Police make 300 arrests of Liberty Brigade members in pre-dawn raid

Police and Militia under the direction of the Duchy of Suldanor and His Imperial Majesty's Ministry of the Interior have completed a surprise early morning raid on a militant compound run by the illegal terrorist organization known as the Liberty Brigade. The Compound was outside Reynoldia, in Suldanor, and was completely over run by police and militia units before 7am local time. More than 300 arrests were made on the site, and no fatalities were reported.

The operation commenced at about 6:10 am, as militia forces coordinating with Duchy Security forces scaled walls and captured four guardposts along the fence line. Maintaining the element of surprise, the militia units then cut the concertina wire and allowed units under special weapons and tactics to quietly and safely enter the compound, where they quickly over ran four other guard posts and went building by building, waking Brigade members up room by room with tear gas grenades. Several of the members were in bed together when the grenades flooded their homes with the noxious gas, and as they came running out of the house, the were apprehended by armored police officers.

"It was an amazingly clean operation" said Sergeant Frank Middleton, of the Suldanor branch of the Institutional Militia. "Each team did their job and we all worked together like a well oiled machine." Middleton said the entire team had been preparing for this operation for three weeks. "We were tipped off in late August about the existence of this compound in the neighborhood, and after investigating it, we discovered that the people in it were affiliated with the Liberty Brigade, who are wanted in connection with the assassination of Duchess Martha Allistair."

The team captured 315 militants and associates, some of whom were significant others of the militants. In addition to the arrests, the team seized more than ₭230,000 of black market crystal methamphetamine and heroin, ₭250,000 in cash, significant amounts of foreign produced pornography and stacks of racist and anti-foreigner propaganda. "The way these people talk about our Empress is just revolting," said Middleton. "They have crude drawings of her on their walls, and the pamphlets about her are unconscionable. It is not illegal to have these materials, because Her Majesty the Empress is not the sovereign, but it is very distasteful and vulgar, and the (police) chief (Albert Weiland, chief of Duchy Police) has ordered that material burned."

In addition to contraband seized during the raid, Kalistani police also discovered pamphlets referring to the Autonomous State, and talking about reuniting the two Suldanors under the Autonomous State's Flag, and liberating the workers to own their own property and to do to others what others have done to then. "By Autonomous State, we assume the literature means 'Baltusia', since that is what they call the territory now. And we weren't sure if this was actually produced by Baltusians, or if it was just produced with them." Among the pamphlets, authorities confiscated a book on bomb making, and a stock of firearms that would make any veteran collector jealous.

"The connection to Baltusia would be very troubling," said Suldanor's Police Chief Martin Rosa. "Since a lot of it is in pro-worker gibberish, and talks about the armed struggle of the liberated proletariat, we assume that Kalistan is a target for destabilization by our Southern Territories. It is mostly unintelligible, it has so much communistical jargon in it. If IBSI is able to link it to Baltusia, it will greatly hurt the already strained relations between the two Northern Seleyan Nations." Baltusian origin or not, those who are affiliated with this armed gang of thugs look to spend decades, if not the rest of their lives, incarcerated.

"We broke up this compound today," said Chief Rosa. "But we have no reason to believe that this is all there is. Often underground groups can hide in plain sight. And when they activate in the underground and become sleeper assets, they become very difficult to locate.

"We got lucky today," said Chief Rosa. "This could have been a LOT worse: Luckily we got to them before they could get regroup and re stock their ammunition. It even surprised us how smoothly it went. But if one shot had been fired, this would have gone way different. We won't always be so lucky... At the end of the day, this is more a message to others: Terrorists are not welcomed in Kalistan." declared Police Chief Rosa.