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There are four PCs in the campaign and they have two NPCs that fill holes in the make-up of the team. The PCs and their allies officially work for the US State Department's Police Development Program (PDP) as contractors who are instructing the Dhi Qar police in the use of a new Criminal Intelligence Analysis and Collation program that runs of their digital filing system, but they are also supposed to report to the headquarters of United States Forces - Iraq anything they can find out about the 100-200 witnesses or suspects in a series of corruption cases in Dhi Qar that have, according to police files, died of natural causes or from accidents or unrelated violence.

The team leader is a PC, Col. Joseph Wolfram Irmintraut of the United States Army. He is a former HUMINT officer of the Military Intelligence Corps and a former DIA Defense Attaché to Bejing; now a Team Leader for the Human Terrain Analysis Team at Camp Victory and in the process of being qualified as as a Foreign Area Officer (FAO) for the Middle East.

Col. Irmintraut was working in the J-2 staff of the United States Forces - Iraq headquarters when Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick requested that he lead a State Department Police Development Program team to the Dhi Qar province and report back to him about the deteriorating security situation and the anomalous police reports from that province.

Officially, the PDP team would work for the State Department and report to the Regional Security Officer (RSO) of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) at the US Embassy, but while they would be doing work as contractors for the PDP, they were to report directly to General Helmick on anything significant they came across having to do with infiltration of the police by hostile organisations or any large-scale conspiracy against the al-Maliki government.

The highly-qualified detective from the Detroit Police Service who was supposed to be the team leader for a PDP team to Dhi Qar will serve as the second-in-command to Col. Irmintraut. His name is Lieutenant Jerome Book, a very respected homicide detective who has written several books on crime scene forensics and investigative techniques.

Lt. Book was given a choice of being assigned to another PDP team, but after a talk with Brigadier General Jerry Cannon, who respects Lt. Book and his investigative acumen greatly, Book consented to adding a more-or-less investigative remit to his official position as an instructor and advisor. In the circumstances, it seemed to him fully justified to provide assistance to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior by sending an outside team of experts, as the available records suggested that the local police was unfitted to investigate the anomalous deaths in connection to the corruption investigations in Dhi Qar.

For some unknown reason, senior British figures connected to the former Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) had been consulted prior to launching this fact-finding mission and the British were sending two people along.

One is a qualified accountant who apparently works as an auditor in the MoD, Sir Archibald Forsyth-Sykes, KCVO, OBE. Regards the SIG-Sauer P229R pistol that was pressed upon him by a Special Agent of the DSS with distaste*, but appears to be quite familiar with a wide variety of spreadsheets and financial software, including forensic accounting programs which he is using to analyse the financial records for local government and police.

The other is a PC, an Australian ADFIS investigator (WO2) on detached duty. His name is Anthony 'Taz' Walker and he is a Detective Senior Sergeant of the Queensland Police Service in civilian life, where he polices his home town of Mount Isa with folksy charm and a friendly laugh.

Coaches Rugby League for at-risk teens, mostly of Kalkadoon ancestry, and likes to explore his beloved native land in a good 4WD vehicle, with good friends and good beer along. Lives in domestic bliss with his intelligent, exquisite and erudite wife Harinakshi Nayanar Walker, a doctor at Mount Isa Hospital, and their three teenaged children, Sarah, Ajit and Nanda.

The technical expert responsible for the smooth functioning of the new Criminal Intelligence Analysis and Collation program that runs off the digital filing system of the Dhi Qar IPS is a civilian technician from the FBI named Sammy Gupta Singh. He's got a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and a Masters in Information Technology (MIT) from Virginia Tech.

The last PC is 1st SFOD-D operator Staff Sergeant Akeem Nassir. A former US Army Ranger and a Communication Sergeant from 5th SF Group, Sgt. Akeem was born in Detroit to Iraqi-American parents. After several tours in Iraq, as well as a language course in Doha, Qatar, SSG Nassir speaks fluent (Gelet) Baghdadi Mesopotamian Arabic and excellent Gulf Arabic. He's being sent along instead of a native interpreter because of security concerns that his commanding officer had about the fact-finding mission.

*Not to mention lacking trigger discipline and being confused about the lack of a manual safety.