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Well, at one point I was convinced that this level could not be done in under 7.5 minutes, but it turns out there is a trigger to force the motorcade to approach the city gates right away. All you have to do is get the sniper rifle and climb up to the highest roof of the mosque and aim it out into the desert. Within 5 seconds the little announcement will pop up saying the motorcade is approaching the city gates and then within a few more seconds the vehicles will start to appear just to the right of the right hand rock outcropping out in the desert.
In some of my past games I have started this level with a sniper rifle left over from the previous level. In this timed series I did not have the luxury of the extra 20 seconds or so it would have taken to grab the rifle at the end of the Murder at the Bazaar so we'll have to get by with the 9 mm SD as usual. Besides, I don't know if it would help that much for speed anyway. At the end of this level, though, we'll have a nice .50 cal. MI95 to use in the Tunnel Rat level.
Start behind some boxes. Run around the boxes while taking out your 9 mm SD and there will be two guards on the other side of a small tree in front of you. Run straight toward them and sliding a little to the right and take out the first guard through the tree and then the second one before he fires at you. Turn to your left and run to the back corner of a small building to the left of the mosque courtyard, step around the back of the building if necessary and take out the guard that was headed in that direction.
Keep running in that same direction and hang a right just before going through the archway and run along the inside of that wall. Before getting to the end of the wall, stop and look to your right and there will be a guard walking away from you. Shoot him in the head.
Turn to your left and step to your right past the end of the wall and shoot the guard right in front of you in the head.
Run past that guard, hang a left up the main road and turn right between the first two buildings turn right again but veer to the left through the alleyway. There are two guards coming from your left and if you can take them out before they fire their weapons, then you won't have to worry about the two guards outside the gate. So as you run through that alley hug the building on your left and try to take both those guys out with one shot each before they see you.
If you are running toward them when you fire, then you are now at the little side road where you should turn left and head toward the agency pickup. There should be a guard walking into view from the left right behind a tree as he comes from near one of the arches in the wall. Keep the tree between you as you charge him and then take him out with one shot to the right of the tree.
Immediately, turn right and charge the next guard who was walking away from you toward the back of the building that was on your right but may now be starting to fire at you. Take him out.
Turn left and run behind the building that surrounds the agency pickup point but go past the opening and hug the left wall on the other side of the opening. Use the boxes to your left as a shield and as you peek around them to the right or even before, there will be two guards right in front of you. If you are running up to the boxes, they will hear you and turn around one at a time. Take them out as they turn around.
Now the guy guarding the left side of the back gate will come running so to save time and avoid alerting too many more guards, you should go ahead and take him out. He's pretty far away but I've had pretty good luck hitting him from here. Don't charge him because it takes you into sight of two other guards and in the wrong direction to get your rifle.
Now do an about face and run back to the entrance to the courtyard where your agency pickup guy is. It will now be on your right so run in there and get your MI95 and ammo and run back out. Turn right and head straight for the mosque. You may want avoid the first right that goes through the arches and take the next right through the little alley and across the main road. Take out any guards you see on the way there but you'll probably only see one at the most. There are probably 6 left inside and two outside the gates.
When you get to the mosque run up the stairs and then run to the ladder to the highest roof on the side toward the desert wall and climb up the ladder. Run to the edge of the abutment facing out over the desert and aim the rifle. Wait a few seconds and then when you get a warning about the motorcade approaching the city, if you are not in expert mode, lower the rifle and save your game.
There are four large mounds in the desert outside the wall and the motorcade will appear to the right of the one on the far right. That's where you should be aiming. I haven't tried this in expert mode because I have such a hard time getting a clean shot on the limo that it would be a waste of time, so I just keep waiting for the limo to appear out of thin air. I'm so bad it takes me about 20 tries reloading my game to hit the target without killing the driver or the escort. Shoot about halfway up the window a little behind where the drivers head should be as soon as the limo appears and if you miss on the first shot. reload your game.
As soon as you get a warning that the mission objective has changed, lower the rifle, turn left and step off the upper roof onto the lower roof. Then turn right and step off the lower roof onto the ground. This maneuver will cost you some health but it's a hair faster than taking either of the stairways. There's one to your right in addition to the one you came up.
Run to the hole in the wall directly across from you.
Level Over
My time = 2:05 (From upper mosque roof when the motorcade first appears)
