The surviving Attican government and thousands of their elite forces retreated from the capital and rendezvoused in the northern parts of Attica where the old resistance had held out against the Islamic Congress twenty years ago. The Pineland administration refused to answer questions about the resistance as the Islamic Congress surrounded the last free airport. They sought closer relations with the new government, and sent no public aid to the resistance. Even medical support. Every announcement they made ignored the remains of the old government and granted legitimacy to the new one. Many remembered all the times the Pineland government had armed anti-government forces in Montanya or Parumphia in decades past, always seeking to gain closer relations with what they hoped would be a new government. It was not a new tactic, though had rarely worked as well as they hoped.