Prior to and during Day 8, US and Kamistani Presidents Allison Taylor and Omar Hassan were preparing to sign an historic peace treaty that would effectively dismantle the IRK's nuclear weapons program. Believing such a treaty would weaken their influence in the region, a faction inside the Russian government (led by President Yuri Suvarov himself) facilitated an assassination attempt (carried out by Russian crime syndicate Red Square and later a splinter faction of the IRK government) on President Hassan in order to derail the treaty.