Chapter 525

Zoe's article, published in the New York Times, did not cause widespread repercussions. First, Ethiopia is so far away from the United States that Americans don't even know where it is. Besides, Americans are a long way from starving. No matter how good Zoe's writing style is, most readers can't feel it.

But Zoe's article is not ignored. After the introduction of this article, some charitable organizations and international aid organizations have finally noticed the low-key charity, Youai Africa, as well as their strong strength in exporting food. Friendship Africa is a new charity that has been established for a few years, but it does not accept donations from the general public, and rarely organizes volunteers to participate in their activities. The agency is not even willing to publicize its unemployment in the media. This is a wonderful flower in the charity field.

However, these things are not the concern of Zoe who is in Africa, because Zoe is still exploring the deeper darkness of loving Africa. As the most important media in the United States, the editor in chief of the New York Times, with years of experience, feels that Zoe has come across a big news this time. What is the concept of seven million tons of food? This is already one third of the food production of the United States in 1984. What kind of people have so much energy to export so much grain, and who are the buyers? With the support of the editor in chief, the New York Times began to send more people to help Zoe's follow-up reports.

However, for the New York Times, now is not the best time to launch the truth of the friendly Africa incident, because several earth shaking events have taken place in the world recently, and it is not possible for readers' interest to be transferred. Among these major events, the most concern for the American people is the release of the investigation report on the attack on Guantanamo. It took nearly a month for investigators commissioned by Congress to compile a report after the incident. The report will be questioned in a public hearing organized by Congress. Several important personnel related to the incident, including the commander-in-chief of Guantanamo base, the former US Secretary of defense, the Secretary of state, the director of the CIA and other important officials of the Reagan cabinet, will be questioned in front of the media. So the New York Times plans to postpone Zoe's column for a while before the Guantanamo report is fully released.

Apart from focusing on the Guantanamo report, the main focus of recent issues of the New York Times is the meeting of the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union in Geneva. The main opportunity of this meeting is that the leaders of the two countries will attend a meeting on regional and international security in Switzerland. Although the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union attended the meeting, their meeting was temporarily facilitated. Therefore, the two sides did not achieve much. They only signed a letter of intent for cooperation on arms race limitation. However, Gorbachev's moderate attitude is totally different from the aggressive attitude of Soviet leaders in the past, which makes many people interested in him.

Although this meeting between the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union is of great significance, Americans are more concerned about the loss of Guantanamo than those Europeans who live in the shadow of the Soviet steel flood. After this incident, the media and some military scholars have been criticizing the combat effectiveness of the U.S. military. They question why the world's most powerful armed forces, supported by hundreds of billions of dollars of military funding from Congress every year, are vulnerable in front of Colombia's miscellaneous troops and have no fighting back.

Former defense minister Weinberg answered this question in the first day of the hearing. He said that the whole incident was carefully planned. Before the attack, six full 10000 ton oil tankers rushed into the narrow main channel of Guantanamo Bay. Then there was a big explosion, which ignited the floating oil. The harmful substances contained in the oil burning made the US Air Force unable to work normally, while the navy was unable to enter Guantanamo Bay to support the battle because the channel was blocked. The defense minister has admitted that he had an inescapable fault in handling the Guantanamo attack. However, Weinberg's words changed, but he aimed at the CIA, the largest intelligence agency in the United States.

"Honourable Members of Congress, I want to emphasize that the cause of the whole incident was a prisoner named Ivankov. The attacker paid such a high price to rescue Ivankov from Guantanamo base! In view of Ivankov's sensitive identity, please forgive me for not disclosing his specific information too much. However, I would like to remind members that Ivankov was arranged by the CIA to go to Guantanamo base one month before the attack, and just a week before the attack, the CIA agents sent to Colombia discovered the abnormal situation of the local armed groups, And they already know that they are planning a crazy plan for Guantanamo. Unfortunately, these precious intelligence were thrown into the wastebasket by the deputy director of the CIA. We didn't know that such intelligence existed until after the incident! So I don't think the Department of defense should take more responsibility in this incident, but the attitude of senior CIA officials is worrying! " Although Weinberg, the outgoing Secretary of defense, has become the scapegoat of President Reagan, he has no worries. Now Weinberg only wants to bring the CIA closer to the political vortex of Guantanamo, rather than let the Department of defense bear the attack from the American media and the people alone at the beginning of the incident.

"Mr. Weinberg, you just mentioned that the attackers used six 10000 ton ships at the beginning of the operation, one of which was deliberately stranded at Guantanamo Bay by the attackers? Can you tell us the origin of these ships? " A member of the investigation committee was the first to ask a question after Weinberg's speech. He was very curious about how the attackers organized this massive military operation.

"Well, Mr. congressman, according to the investigation of the Ministry of defense, the ship of the attack was registered in Panama, while the owner of the ship was the European shipping company mediterranean shipping. They bought the six Suez class ships from a bankrupt Greek shipping company six months before the attack. But the attack came a week after the ships encountered pirates while sailing in western Africa. And then they're missing! "