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USER: Kobayashi, S.

PID: KLA-RG-029-5F3-AA1

RNK: CCMDR

CLR: 臙脂

SUBJ: Re: Fujiyoshida

PRI: MEDIUM

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It's making news rather quickly isn't it?

Our affiliated newspaper released an article on the affair. I admit, Nezumi-45's words and motivations are unseemly and almost alien to many outsiders, but their activities represent an oft-neglected front in our war: The spiritual. The far right in Kusari try to exercise a monopoly on influence and doctrine in the sphere of religious affairs, but groups like Nezumi-45 serve to remind these charlatans they cannot sell out the soul of the people without a fight. The intended target, Junpei Katsuherabo, was dispatched, and the secondary target of Taketa Katsuherabo escaped. I can tell you that Nezumi-45 did not mention to their handlers if young Shinobu was a target, and so I presume her injuries are the result of unintended consequences.

You won't necessarily find this gone into too much detail in the newspaper, but the original intent of the operation was a more hidden affair. Apparently, these fanatics were going to try and enter discretely and then do the deed, but security must have noticed something about their behavior that gave them away. It's the consequences of not using Commandos for every job, I suppose. Most members of the PLUs are perfectly expendable enough to throw them at these high-risk, high-profile missions, but they often resemble a Chrysanthemum attack more than one of our surgical strikes.

It really is a shame about the little girl. Not just for her sake, but for how the media will undoubtedly use the tragic injuring to malign revolutionary actions going forward. If children were ever the target, such as when they are subject to that "compromised" state, the far more prudent thing would be to not make it look like we had just murdered a little one in cold blood or left them with horrible wounds. No, that affair is the realm of "accidents" and "regrettable sickness." Only in extreme circumstances can anything like that provide any sort of advantage for the cause.

It seems now the task of the day will be to spin this properly. I'm going to make sure Nezumi-45 understands our expectations going forward on rules of engagement. Not like any of the fools who went to the shrine that day will be around to hear the lectures, though. It is my hope, however, that we can goad the government and these influential clerical clans into using widespread oppressive measures to get at us. The pressure of war with Liberty might make them move with haste, and haste makes waste.

...and I do hope that little girl makes it.

Forever in solidarity.

Sora Kobayashi
Cadre Commander, RevSpec "Yomigun"
Co-chair, Coordinating Committee, People's Convention for Liberation

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