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| - The main flashpoint in Pandora Tomorrow is Indonesia, in the year 2006, where the U.S. had established a military presence in the newly independent nation of East Timor to train that country's military forces in their fight against anti-separatist Indonesian guerrilla militias. Foremost among these Indonesian militias was the Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer), led by Suhadi Sadono. Charismatic militia leader Sadono, once trained by the CIA to help fight Communist influences in the region, had grown resentful of the U.S. support of East Timor and its interference with his country's sovereignty. In response, Sadono initiated a suicide bombing and follow-up attack on the U.S. Embassy to Dili, capturing a number of U.S. military and diplomatic personnel including Douglas Shetland, an old friend and comrade of Sam Fisher. Fisher was sent to infiltrate the embassy and gather intelligence on the Darah Dan Doa. Fisher succeeded in his mission, and the U.S. Embassy was retaken by Delta Force, however, Sadono escaped and the U.S. launched a military campaign on Indonesian soil in an attempt to hunt him down, much to the protests of the Indonesian government. Fisher ultimately learns that Sadono has masterminded a scheme known as "Pandora Tomorrow", by placing a series of biological bombs (ND133's) equipped with the smallpox virus on American soil. Every 24 hours, Sadono makes encrypted phone calls to each of the bomb carriers to delay the release of the virus. If he is killed or detained, the virus would be released and millions of Americans will die. Because Sadono is fighting on the front lines in the conflict, the U.S. can't risk killing him, and is forced to withdraw its forces. Sam Fisher is then sent to infiltrate Darah Dan Doa strongholds in order to learn the location of the smallpox bombs. He is assisted in this endeavor by Shetland and Shetland's PMC, Displace International. Fisher ultimately learned the location of the bombs, and Shadownet spies were sent in to neutralize them, bringing an end to Sadono's threat against the U.S. Third Echelon decides to capture Sadono alive instead of merely assassinating him, due to the problems created when Fisher assassinated Georgian President Kombayn Nikoladze in 2004. Although Fisher manages to capture Sadono, Third Echelon learns that a rogue CIA agent, Norman Soth has acquired the last smallpox-armed ND133, and intends to detonate it in Los Angeles' LAX airport. Soth cares nothing for Indonesia, but intended to get revenge on America for a perceived betrayal which cost him a leg years earlier. Fisher infiltrates LAX, kills Soth and his group of terrorists (disguised as airport workers and security guards), and prevented the detonation of the last smallpox-armed ND133 by disguising himself as a maintenance worker and setting the bomb behind two airport security guards, who notice the device almost immediately. LAX is subsequently evacuated. The L.A.P.D. Bomb Squad is then called in to perform a controlled explosion of the device, which was done by an unmanned vehicle using reinforced steel. With the destruction of the final ND133, Sadono's threat against the U.S. is brought to an end.
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