to use the signing and the influx of dignitaries as a platform for their demands. Tasked with protecting the city and the delegates is the Los Angeles Police Department and their Metropolitan Division, with firepower and tactical needs being the responsibility of D Platoon, SWAT. In July 2005, the LAPD executes a series of search warrants against members of the sovereign citizen doomsday cult Sovereign America. Shortly after, a series of attacks occur across the city: the Turkish consulate is bombed, and its ambassador kidnapped, by a Kurdish nationalist group, the Kurdish People's Party; the Hollywood Hills mansion of cable provider CEO Donald Foreman is invaded by an armed group that holds him and his family for ransom; and Orthodox patriarch Alexei III and his retinue are taken hostage by terrorists in a sprawling Orthodox cathedral. SWAT is deployed to handle each incident, and the LAPD learns Alexei III was planning to attend the signing ceremony. Suddenly, an airliner carrying the President of Algeria is shot down by a surface-to-air missile, killing all passengers and crew aboard; the resulting chaos caused by the shutdown of LAX has created a significant number of vulnerable targets for more missiles, including the plane of Russian President Igor Stomas. SWAT locates the assassins, the Neo-Soviet communist People's Liberation Party, in a construction site and defeats them before they can fire another missile. Soon after, the PLP storms a television studio during an afternoon talk show, holding LA Mayor Marlin Fitzpatrick, Tolerance Defense League Chairman Herman Moyer, host Donna Briggs, and many members of the audience and station staff hostage, demanding an international broadcast for their message of Soviet reunification; the LAPD feigns the broadcast, distracting them for SWAT to move in and free the hostages. The suspects responsible for the Foreman home invasion and the cathedral standoff are identified, and SWAT apprehends them at a nightclub. After foiling a bank heist by Sovereign America and rescuing a wounded off-duty detective from the robbers, SWAT is deployed to rescue Stomas from the PLP, who have raided his penthouse suite at the Carlysle Hotel and demand a flight to Moscow with the intention of taking Stomas with them. The LAPD is authorized to deploy SWAT for VIP protection at the Convention Center, saving dignitaries at a pre-signing meeting from armed assailants. Attempts to disrupt the treaty signing by other terrorist groups are soon launched: the PLP