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OPERATION STOPWATCH: INTERNAL REPORT
Level IV Security.
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
The operation was carried out exactly according to plan. We had already been given the internal layout of the house, but did not have sufficient time to gather any observational intelligence on site. Using thermal imaging intensifiers through the wall of the adjoining house we detected four individuals within the target property.
All possible exits to the house were covered by two operatives and on the command the house was entered from five separate locations simultaneously - both front and back doors, two windows in selected bedrooms, and a skylight in the loft.
The house was rapidly searched following the standard procedure – room by room on all floors, three men entering each room. All four persons were located on the ground floor in the garage area. Three of them were unknowns, the fourth was our mark. These three were later identified as friendlies, their statements being attached at the end of this document.
Two of these non-combatants were stood in the doorway to the garage and were quickly incapacitated before a flashbang was thrown in. This disabled the third non-com who fell to the floor in the centre of the room.
The target individual was wired up to a series of computer banks on the far wall. Unfortunately the fraction of a second it took to disable the two non-coms in the doorway had given him time to react. He was seen to lunge for one of the keyboards mounted onto the side of the machine as the flashbang went off.
Shots were immediately fired by all three members of the team on seeing the target’s movement. There was a large burst of light independent of our flashbang and the mark was not recovered.
Despite not finding the body or any trace of the target after this, I can categorically state that the mark did NOT - repeat NOT - leave the building using any of the available exits.
The mission from entering the property to final extraction took seventeen seconds.
Captain Adam Ventnor.
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