On the day of Geezler’s appointment as Deputy Director to the Middle East, Santo called Rem. This, I hope, is where the enquiry will focus. Paul Howell was the man responsible for the funding, he’s the man to concentrate on. More importantly, there’s no record in Southern-CIPA of any involvement from any of the staff from Europe. I’m supposed to have spoken with Sutler on the phone. You have to look closely at the other testimonies, and how they say I was involved. I think we made fourteen visits to other sites across Europe also in the same month. I did, it’s true, accompany the European Division Chief to Amrah. I have to accept that the work I’m doing will make me a target in some way. Given the work I’ve done since, the responsibilities I’ve undertaken, and all of the changes HOSCO has undergone, it’s not a surprise that my name has come up. The enquiry is digging in all sorts of directions and we’ll have to see what comes up. On his culpability: By the time we get to the hearings it will be almost a year after the fact. You can’t close down an operation of that size in such a short time. Anyone could see that the burn pits were a problem at a number of levels. More globally, it’s clear that the speed at which everything was ending wasn’t manageable. The pits at Camp Bravo were abandoned, and we’ve since learned about the illegal burnings there, and given that the same thing was happening at Camp Liberty it’s clear that projects like these were not appropriately monitored. New information is coming to light about these rogue operations. On the burn pits: We know a lot more now than we did two, three weeks ago. We have good people out there looking for him, and I’m confident he’ll be found. Like everyone else the first I heard about him was the day Southern-CIPA was attacked. On Sutler: We’re committed to finding this man, to bringing him to justice. Everyone wants to know why this happened and how it happened, and hopefully this is something the hearings can resolve next May. I want answers, and we’re working hard to find them. We’re coming up to an election and if there’s a new administration they’re going to want answers. We’re six weeks on from the assault, and we’re still finding out what happened. I can see why this has drawn the attention it has. The man who found them hurled the jar over the Quonset before Rem could stop him. In Sutler’s cabin they found a mason jar with a number of red and black scorpions inside. Rem couldn’t see why Pakosta’s and Clark’s belongings were being taken, and the guards would not explain, except to say that both of them were unharmed, they were at the front of the building when it came under fire, and had suffered nothing more than a few scratches in their scramble to get clear. The two men inside his office, Kiprowski and Sutler, were killed, and they would be identified by their DNA, there were specialists flying in from Germany who would assist. The Deputy Administrator was in the adjoining office at the time and had suffered burns. The offices of the Deputy Administrator had taken a direct hit. Southern-CIPA had come under mortar attack. The news of the assault on the regional government at their offices in Southern-CIPA was quickly followed by the news of Kiprowski’s and Sutler’s deaths.Ī small convoy of military police arrived late in the afternoon and immediately cordoned off Pakosta’s and Clark’s cabins, and took Rem into the Quonset to answer questions. Samuels looked at his watch and asked if it mattered. Little remained of the boat, an outline, flats and scraps of fibreglass spread across the dune. He arrived as the third and fourth bursts broke above the dune in a hail of debris and sand that hissed as it fell - and saw Samuels standing on the Beach with grenades. Rem walked down the track and when the second explosion came he saw smoke rise from the Beach, not the burn pits. The first explosion came an hour after Sutler’s departure. It closed an episode, perhaps, but as an event it was unattached to anything else that was happening. When things happen, she told herself, as long as you’re not harmed, you have a choice over how you handle it. She held up her hands and was surprised not to see them shaking. Couldn’t be entirely certain of the substance thrown at her, but understood the intent.
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