The Hunt for Ibrahim Al-Sudat

MI13 Confidential Report on the Gallows Hill Incident

Official press releases:

January 8^th 09.00: "An exchange took place between British Security forces and armed terrorists unit in North Yorkshire."

January 8^th 10.30: "A firefight last night near Richmond in Yorkshire resulted in the death or capture of four terrorists of Middle Eastern origin. Casualties among the securities forces were low; civilian casualties were minimal."

January 8^th 13.45: "Last night a unit of the British Security Services engaged four or five terrorists known to have contacts with Al-Qaida. It is believed the terrorists were testing a bio-chemical terrorist weapon in preparation for an attack on a major British city. Three terrorists were killed and a fourth captured. It is currently uncertain if a fifth terrorist escaped. During the engagement, four servicemen lost their lives. Their names cannot be released until their families have been informed."

January 9^th: 11.00: "The Department of Defence categorically denies allegations that the special forces men killed in the engagement with Al-Qaida terrorists near Richmond last night were in any way lacking in equipment or preparation. Britain's anti-terrorist units are as well equipped and trained as any in the World."

February 10^th: 11.00: "The Department of Defence wishes to advise the public that Ibrahim Al-Sudat, the fifth member of the terrorist cell engaged by the SAS last month in Yorkshire, was last night shot dead in a confrontation with the security services in co-operation with the Manchester Metropolitan Police. There were no other casualties and the security services appear confident that with Al-Sudat's death, this particular cell is now completely neutralised and of no further threat to the public."

Amanda Kensington: For the PM's Eyes Only: February 20^th 2005

I beg to present to you a fair and accurate appraisal on the true facts behind the incident at Gallows Hill January 7^th 2005.

It seems our American friends have transgressed our sovereignty again. Using Mahmoud Hussein as a factor, US military intelligence recruited a handful of agents from the College of Antiquities the Bank Holiday of January 3^rd. You may recall that this organisation has in the past enjoyed close links with MI13 and the current secretary of the College, Lionel Woodthorpe, is an ex-MI13 operative. He ensured one of our occasional freelance agents, Bernard Connelly, was part of the team. Unfortunately, Connelly is a bit of a maverick and, as an occasional, not as well trained as could be desired, but he was the best that Woodthorpe could find at short notice. It should be understood that at the time Woodthorpe merely suspected MI13 should be represented.

The makeshift team travelled to Ravensworth in pursuit of a fragment of a stone relic known as the Umayyad Font. The significance of this item was unknown to us until our American friends revealed that their source in Iraq, the above Mahmoud Hussein, had named this item as a crucial piece of equipment in a terrorist attack planned several years ago by one Ibrahim Al-Sudat, Iraq's leading occult operative for many years.

Our information indicates that the Umayyad Font is in fact an altar dedicated to one of the Outer Gods; the plan being simply to summon this Outer God to wreak havoc upon a major British conurbation. This particular plan stalled on the incomplete state of the altar. Apparently deliberately broken many centuries ago, the pieces were buried separately. While the main body of the Font was recovered just twenty years ago, the other fragment was unearthed in 1924 by the eminent Iraqi archaeologist, Winston Lord Ravensworth, and brought back to England as part of his considerable collection of Middle Eastern artefacts.

When Mahmoud Hussein heard of the theft of the Umayyad Font, he immediately informed his American masters of his fears, having heard Ibrahim Al-Sudat proclaim that the recovery of the fragment would be all that might be needed to bring the original plan to fruition. Our American friends, unwilling to impart the intelligence directly (possibly because they did not wish to reveal their possession of the source) used Hussein himself as factor, with the intent of providing a disconnect by denying any involvement in his actions.

The team, despite their lack of training, succeeded admirably in locating the item, but not in preventing Al-Sudat's agents in acquiring it. However, our colleagues in GCHQ intercepted a mobile telephone communication between Karen Doherty (who seems to have been an agent of Al-Sudat's) and a terrorist known to MI5 as Abu-Sidhu. As a result, the standby SAS team was mobilised and ordered to Richmond to apprehend Abu-Sidhu.

Knowing nothing of our American friends' operation, the SAS team saw the College team queer their pitch and the planned take in Richmond had to be aborted. However, they followed Abu-Sidhu to a local landmark called Gallows Hill and the JIC authorised an alternative plan to take the terrorists in this relatively isolated spot, where little harm could come to innocent bystanders.

Again, our people fell foul of the US financed operation but all were secured at the expense of two of the SAS team left as guards. The other six operatives moved in to positions around the hilltop, heavily armed. At this point none of the SAS team was in any way aware of the likelihood of occult intervention.

From descriptions given in the reports by the three surviving operatives capable of giving such, it seems Al-Sudat summoned a Dark Young, possibly to test the altar's efficacy. The appearance of this creature created pandemonium, as might be expected. It wrought havoc on the hilltop and four of the team lost their lives. Furthermore, as the surviving operatives retreated as best they could, the creature moved down the hill and attacked the civilians held there. (There is some confusion over what exactly happened as some remarks by agent Harry Wise and civilian Adam Walters seem to indicate a byakhee was also involved but the claimed instrument by which this summoning occurred has not been recovered).

In the confusion, Al-Sudat got away with the altar. One witness claims Bernard Connelly willingly went with him. Having perused Connelly's file, it seems very unlikely that Connelly was in collusion with Al-Sudat. Alternative explanations are that he acted under threat, under possession, under insanity or in the hope of providing intelligence on Al-Sudat.

It is difficult to overstate the degree or immediacy of this threat. Al-Sudat is clearly a formidable, ruthless and psychotic man, quite capable of executing his plan, the result of which would likely be the complete wasting of one of our major towns, even London.

We have several things in our favour:

a) Al-Sudat can only achieve his objective at the next dark of the moon (next February 7^th/8^th).

b) He must conduct his ritual in woodland, as wild as possible.

c) He will need accomplices and human sacrifices, which should be difficult to find.

d) We have been contacted by Bernard Connelly. He seems paranoid but is willing to talk to people he feels he can trusted, which apparently means the surviving members of the original College team.