John Walker |
Donald Rumsfeld |
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- Did you ever wonder who provided you with the startling
video of American John Walker being tortured by CIA operative Mike Spann,
or those sickening pictures of hooded, chained, and drugged prisoners being
herded onto American military aircraft at Kandahar Airport? Extraordinary
though it may seem, these and other horrific images were deliberately leaked
to you by members of US Special Forces, who had direct control of the areas
where the images were produced. Considerably concerned by the actions of
local CIA operatives, and certain illegal orders from Washington, members
of Special Forces responded by leaking highly sensitive information to
the public.
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- Do not misunderstand me. American and other western Special
Forces are not a crowd of harp-playing angels determined to protect the
"human rights" of any old Tom, Dick or Harry. Most members of
Special Forces are seriously heavy duty soldiers who go about their business
loaded for bear, and God help anyone who gets in their way. Nor are Special
Forces averse to knocking captured members of the enemy around on the battlefield,
if they believe that the enemy in question has tactical information that
might reduce risks to their own unit. Many years ago I was stupid enough
to volunteer for a "practice interrogation" at the hands of these
folk; a mistake I remember vividly to this day because the details are
etched in my memory.
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- The main point to note is that although painful, my "practice
interrogation" was swift and soon over. In a tactical battlefield
situation, a soldier or airman is only reckoned to have information relevant
for about 48 hours after capture, because grass roots military folk are
never privy to long term strategic planning. Thus if a battlefield prisoner
hasnít spilled the beans inside 48 hours, chances are there are
no useful beans left to spill. At that stage, Special Forces and other
military units ship the captured enemy off to a normal prisoner-of-war
facility. Put simply, soldiers are not "into" extended sensory
deprivation, and other obscene forms of torture favored by psychiatrists
and psychologists working for most of the intelligence agencies and security
services. Details of this torture and its effects will be provided later
in the report, but first we need to examine the ways in which the American
military in faraway Afghanistan, alerted the American public at home by
using members o
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- Early on in the "War on Terror", four hundred
Taliban prisoners were transported by warlords to a fort outside Mazar-e
Sharif in northern Afghanistan. The only cameras and long-range shotgun
microphones present were in the hands of US Special Forces, who used them
to film and catch the sound of CIA operative Mike Spann torturing "American
Taliban" John Walker. Not long after that, someone chucked the so-called
Taliban a few grenades which they used to stage a revolt against their
captors, who at that time were gleefully pouring oil on the Taliban prisoners
and lighting it with matches. A little later, the CIAís Mike Spann
was reportedly beaten to death, and the survivors of the revolt were shipped
off to another prison camp.
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- Under normal circumstances the footage and sound captured
by Special Forces would be considered as top secret material, for Pentagon
eyes only, especially as this footage showed the CIA torturing a prisoner.
But these were not normal circumstances. A member of the CIA was torturing
an American citizen in the presence of "allied" warlords, the
latter directly responsible for supplying seventy percent of Americaís
heroin until 1995 (UN Estimate). So instead of sending the footage off
in a diplomatic pouch to the Pentagon, Special Forces "lost it"
in the immediate vicinity of the Kabul media pack. If action had not been
taken when it was, there is a high probability John Walker would not have
survived his "interrogation" by Mike Spann, and without the critical
video footage you would never have known Walker ever existed.
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- Next up we have the equally astonishing footage of so-called
Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners being led hooded, chained, and medically
sedated, to an American C17 transport aircraft parked at Kandahar Airport
at the dead of night. It was this footage in particular that caused such
a huge fuss by human rights groups all over the world. This is not surprising,
because without this video footage, few people would believe that Americans
from the "Land of the Free" would indulge themselves in such
barbaric behavior. So, were members of Special Forces responsible for taking
this footage as well? No they were not, but Special Forces did have complete
control of Kandahar Airport, meaning that they and only they controlled
the flow of people in and out of the Airport proper. In this particular
case, Special Forces "gave the nod" to the media, telling them
what time to arrive, and where to point their cameras in order to get the
best shots of the prisoners.
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- This activity took place completely outside the US Government
chain of command, and it was a while before Washington found out what had
happened. Then US Government officials went ballistic. Unable to retrieve
the footage from the various news organizations, officers nominated personally
by Donald Rumsfeld frantically asked members of the media pack to sign
an "undertaking" that they would not show the footage until they
received permission. Too late! By then some of the footage had been transmitted
by satellite, and had already been shown to a startled and outraged western
public on international television.
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- The Defense Secretary, officials, psychiatrists, and
psychologists in Washington had several valid reasons to be alarmed, not
least of which was the fact that this footage in isolation proves exactly
what sort of torture was, and still is, intended for these prisoners. Military
contacts have confirmed that far from being the "very, very dangerous"
men claimed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, most of the prisoners
taken to Cuba are low grade fighters and others, i.e. those most likely
to "crack" under sustained cruelty, and sign false confessions
of the kind needed by Washington to ramp up its flagging "War on Terror".
Interrogators have been told the confessions must be ready by September
at the latest. Exactly how psychological torture will be used to extract
the required confessions is explained further down this page, but first
we have to consider why the US Government needs confessions all.
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- At present the US Government is using inference, innuendo,
and outright lies to bolster its ridiculous claim that a bunch of Arab
Terrorists were responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington
on 11 September 2001. There has never been any hard evidence to support
this wild and inaccurate claim, so as usual, the US Government is planning
one of its more spectacular "Trials by Media" later this year.
In the dock on 14 October [shortly after the first anniversary of the World
Trade center attack] will be one Zacarius Moussaoui, who was arrested on
immigration charges on 17 August 2001, nearly a month before the attacks,
and who has now been charged with "conspiracy" in those attacks.
The case against Moussaoui is pitifully weak, with no hard or even corroborative
evidence that he knew what al Qaeda was, much less that he was part of
the alleged organization. In any case, how can a man firmly in US custody
at the time of the attacks be a suspect?
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Zacarius Moussaoui |
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- In a court nearby will be Richard Colvin Reid, the alleged
"Shoe Bomber" on American Airlines Flight 63, said to have tried
to light his shoe in flight in order to blow up the aircraft. The US Government
is now trying to invent "links" to al Qaeda, the principle claim
being that Reid worshipped at the same London Mosque as Moussaoui during
late 1998. So what? I visited Westminster Abbey the same month as Queen
Elizabeth the Second one year, but I never met Her Majesty personally,
and neither of us are members of the mysterious al Qaeda.
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- You can see the way this is going, canít you?
One creative false link at a time, until we have enough creative false
links to finally convince a skeptical American public that the official
lie of October 2001, should be accepted as the actual truth in October
2002. But the huge problem facing the US Government is that neither Moussaoui
or Reid have actually been seen in the company of Osama Bin Laden, or even
in Afghanistan, though we do know the Israelis shipped Reid to Israel for
a week aboard one of their very own El Al jets. This total absence of any
proof that either man was connected to al Qaeda is where the prisoners
kidnapped to Cuba finally come into the picture ñ God help them.
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- Before September is out, the American Federal Prosecution
will have signed confessions which "prove" some of the men held
in Cuba personally helped to train Moussaoui and Reid in terrorist techniques,
with others possibly providing flight instruction, bomb making, and so
on. All lies of course, but the US Government doesnít care about
that. Think about it people, think about it! What other possible reason
can there be for importing these Afghans and Arabs into Cuba, after kidnapping
them overseas? If they were the "very, very dangerous" men claimed
by Rumsfeld, they would have been left to the tender mercies of the drug-running
warlords recently restored to power by the CIA. Believe me when I say that
justice would then have been amazingly swift, incredibly terminal, and
no drain on the American taxpayer at all.
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be made to "confess", we need to go back in history to the seventies,
when the British Government made a conscious decision to psychologically
torture twelve suspected members of the Irish Republican Army. Remember
very carefully here, that like the prisoners in Cuba, those tortured in
Ireland had not been convicted of any crime. Indeed, none had even been
charged with a crime. Also like the prisoners in Cuba, hoods, restraints
and noise all played a significant part. Here are some subjective comments
from one of the tortured Irishmen:-
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- "Plain-clothes men beside us. Four blue bags produced
and put over our heads. Short of breath because of bag. Then released from
handcuffs which connected one to the others and hands handcuffed in front
individually. Then run across field to 'copter. Landed, did not know where.
Lorry backed up to 'copter. Taken out and thrown into back of lorry, like
a sack of potatoes. Lorry smelt of cow dung. Driven in lorry for about
100 yards. Pulled out of lorry (bag still over head) marched into some
sort of building. Stripped naked, examined by doctor. Bag still over head.
Put lying on bed and examined. Overalls (I later discovered) put on me,
taken into room. Noise like compressed-air engine in room. Very loud, deafening.
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- "Hands put against wall. Legs spread apart. Head
pulled up by bag and backside pushed in. Stayed there for about four hours.
Could no longer hold up arms. Fell down. Arms put up again. Hands hammered
until circulation restored. This happened continually for twelve or fourteen
hours, until I eventually collapsed. Thinking how that Paisley had seized
power in some way and that I would be executed or tortured to death. Started
to pray very hard. Mouth dried up. Couldn't get moisture in mouth. Pulse
taken. Thought of a youngster who had died at six months old, started to
pray that God would give me strength that I would not go insane. Fell down
several times more. Slapped back up again. This must have gone on for two
or three days; I lost track of time. No sleep. No food. Knew I had gone
unconscious several times, but did not know for how long. One time I thought,
or imagined, I had diedÖ"
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- Wessex Helicopter
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- Dr. O'Malley was the first medical man to see any of
the men who had undergone the SD [sensory deprivation] torture. He saw
two of the original twelve men in Crumlin Road jail sixteen days after
their ordeal, and one other somewhat later. He estimated that all three
had developed a psychosis within the first day of interrogation. "The
psychosis consisted of loss of sense of time, perceptual disturbances leading
to visual and auditory hallucinations, profound apprehension and depression,
and delusional beliefs ñ e.g. hearing Paisley [A Protestant Minister]
lead an evangelical choir intent on slaughtering Catholics." Of the
three men, O'Malley gave as his opinion that one would recover completely,
one would possibly recover but the process would be lengthy, and one was
in need of urgent psychiatric assistance if he was to make a full recovery.
Despite the doctor's recommendations, nothing was done and all were subsequently
moved from Crumlin jail to Long Kesh [an internment camp].
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- In his book "The Guinea Pigs" (1974), author
John McGuffin goes a long way towards explaining exactly how this type
of psychological torture works. "Sensory deprivation (SD) refers literally
to the artificial deprivation of the senses ñ auditory, visual,
tactile and kinesthetic. In connection with the Northern Ireland 'guineapigs'
it meant (1) hooding prisoners prior to their interrogation; (2) constant
use of a sound machine which produces white noise', a high pitched hissing,
mushy sound; (3) long periods of immobilization, being forced to lean against
a wall, legs wide apart with only the fingertips touching the wall; (4)
little or no food or drink; and (5) being forced to wear loose overalls,
several sizes too big. In addition, (6) prisoners were deprived of sleep
for days on end; while not technically SD this accentuates the process.
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- There is a purpose behind all these actions. Measures
(1), (2), (3) and (5) cause visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile deprivation
while measures (4) and (6) deprive the brain of oxygen and sugar necessary
for normal functioning. In addition, measures (1), (4) and (6) may disturb
the normal body metabolism. Hooding causes an imbalance in the ratio of
oxygen to carbon dioxide in the air breathed and this causes mental confusion.
The wall-standing, which is deliberately made to sound so innocuous by
apologists like Sir Edmund Compton is extremely painful ñ especially
when accompanied by beatings ñ and causes, in addition to fatigue
and swollen wrists and ankles, poor circulation of the blood which leads
to a reduced supply of oxygen and sugar to the brain. The restricted and
in some cases almost non-existent diet was also sugar-free (Storr has pointed
out that the brain needs three things if it is to function efficiently:
sensory stimulation, sugar and oxygen)."
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- The Irish Government later made a formal complaint to
the European Commission for Human Rights and the European Court of Human
Rights. The Commission found Britain guilty of torture. Where the prisoners
in Cuba are concerned, the US Government is already guilty on more than
a single count. In 1975 the United Nations defined torture as "any
act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally
inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person for
such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession,
punishing him for an act he has committed, or intimidating him or other
personsÖTorture constitutes an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." The US Governmentís
use of isolation units in Cuba breaks two United Nations Covenants against
Torture, and the United Nations Covenant for the Treatment of Prisoners,
both of which the United States has signed.
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- By now, most readers will appreciate the incredibly awkward
position Special Forces placed the US Government in when it allowed the
prisoners to be filmed boarding the C17 Transport at Kandahar Airport,
and leaked details about the sedatives administered to them. Here was almost
a carbon copy of the torture conducted in Northern Ireland: The same hoods,
the same restraints, and 30 hours or more of high pitched aircraft noise
on the way to Cuba substituting for the "White Noise" used by
British security psychiatrists and psychologists.
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- Though detailed information about the psychological torture
in Northern Ireland has largely receded into the back rooms of Irish pubs
and remote corners of the Internet, the US Government is very aware that,
back in the seventies, the British Government faced an avalanche of adverse
publicity. Hated though the IRA was in many quarters, there was no excuse
for this shocking use of psychological torture against mere suspects of
terrorism ñ some of them only teenagers. No doubt in the fullness
of time the US Government will face its own avalanche of adverse publicity,
and it will be richly deserved.
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- In judging its progress to date where the "War on
Terror" is concerned, it seems likely that Washington is listening
more to the fawning comments of external supporters in the "International
Community" than it is to its own citizens, which in the long term
could prove to be a fatal error of judgement. One such fawning external
country is Australia, where the Attorney General, Queens Counsel Mr Daryl
Williams, has recently made it quite clear that whatever the Americans
want to do to their illegal prisoners, thatís OK by Australia. Referring
to the "Australian Taliban" David Hicks, Mr Williams stated:
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potential threat that the prisoners who have been transferred to Cuba represent
Ö. they have been trained to be terrorists and to act in accordance
with the objectives of al Qaeda. That makes them about as dangerous as
a person can be in modern times."
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- Trained? By whom, when, where, and what are the charges?
Apparently in their "Queens Counsel 101" courses, Australian
law schools neglect to mention the need for evidence. The prisoners kidnapped
and flown under strict sensory deprivation conditions to Cuba, where they
are now housed in diminutive cages open to the elements, are not dangerous
persons at all. More dangerous by far are politicians of any nation who
try to invent fictional "terrorists" in order to further their
own political careers or other ambitions, and others who cite the conveniently
invented "terrorists" to force additional Draconian controls
over ordinary members of the public.
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- It seems likely that David Hicks will be released into
Australian custody sometime during the next few months, in order to be
tried on some trumped-up charge around October 2002, the same time as the
mammoth "Trial by Media" of Moussaoui and Reid in America. Combined
with other trials in countries including Great Britain, the last quarter
of 2002 promises to break all records for pure international media hype
and social engineering.
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- Regardless of what Australia or other obsequious countries
might say, where the Afghan prisoners are concerned the US Government is
acting specifically "in the name of the American people". Many
Americans are of Irish descent, and many took deep offence to British behavior
in Northern Ireland. There is no credible reason to believe that American
citizens will condone Rumsfeldís torture of the Afghans simply because
they are "not Irish", nor because they are Muslims rather than
Catholics or Protestants.
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- Perhaps most important of all, the US Government is forcing
members of the US military to behave in ways which offend their rigid training
and discipline. It is perfectly alright to shoot a man dead in combat if
he is shooting at you, and it is perfectly alright to wound a man in combat
if he is trying to wound you. On the flip side of the coin, torturing suspects
for purely political reasons is not alright under any military code ever
written, and it seems likely there will be more "breaches of discipline"
if the United States Government is not very careful in the future.
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- Original Page
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- http://geocities.com/torturevictims/cuba.html
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- Mirror Pages
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- http://software.design.tripod.com/mirror/rift/rift.htm
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- http://cherrytree.no-ip.com/home/mirror/rift/rift.htm
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- The Shoe Bomber
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- http://geocities.com/mknemesis/grenade.html
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- The Guinea Pigs - John McGuffin
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- http://www.mcguffin.freeserve.co.uk/guineapigs/guineapigs.htm
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- The War on Terror
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- http://geocities.com/mknemesis/homerun.html
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- Vialls Investigations Home
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- http://geocities.com/vialls/index.html
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- Comment
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- From Denie
- Ironco@webtv.net
1-19-2
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- Jeff...
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- Dealing with the Guantanamo incarceration of Afghan prisoners...which
Vialls delt with in his excellent report on torture posted on the site.
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- I've been thinking about this for some time since the
first moment I heard about this supposed 'ridiculous' plan to incarcerate
these people down there in Guantanamo.
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- Being somewhat of an arm chair strategist and indirect
relations in the Cuban community, I believe I see a hidden agenda...a whole
facet untouched upon anywhere (yet). But probably discussed in the US Intelligence
plannning rooms as a scenario.
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- On a recent Larry King Show Sen. John McCain made a very
vailed reference to what I'm about to say here. I was shocked to catch
my scenario...just scratched by him.
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- I'll present my points numbered...
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- 1. Castro is about to go (in the next few years at least)...and
relations are soon going to be normalized with Cuba.
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- 2. Incarceration of Afghans prisoners in Guantanamo will
evenually cause an (a 'planned' scripted strategic) incident.
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- 3. Once the prison compound is overloaded...that incident
will be the incitement of the prisoners to escape into mainland Cuba.
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- 4. The US is putting in an additional 1500 troups to
guard Guantanamo...why ?
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- 5. The potential answer: to give help to the Cuban government
to recapture the Afghan prisoners since the US is responsible for them
being there on official Cuban soil.
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- 6. This of course will be a ruse...the neatest invasion
idea ever conceived. That means the 1500 'so called' America security Guantanamo
troups are a ready made 'on the ground' inserted invasion force ready
to go...as a responsibility binder blind when the scenario plays out.
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- 7. The Afghan war conditioned prisoners who are Muslims
hate both Christians, Americans...and Communists. They in attempting to
survive will create major chaos in Cuba....an alien environment to these
detainees.
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- 8. The Afghans prisoners, after certainly many mind control
tactics and SD imposed on them by the CIA will simply be playing out the
'no doubt' planned scenario for which they have been shipped to Cuba.
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- Their own Muslim mind control principles will only make
them more volatile and aggressively dangerous....in a Communistic though
Christian bent country which Cuba is.
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- Otherwise, why would they be sent to this very place...out
of all other places in the world for detention.
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- 9. Castro would have to be a complete fool not to keep
Guantanamo under a major military survailence watch during the time these
Afghans are incarcerated in Guantanamo.
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- 10. Cuba itself functions as a major resort area for
many from across the world...with some Cuban Americans interacting with
out consent of the US government. Therefore in Cuba at anytime there are
thousands of foreign nations.
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- The countries of these foreign nations which include
many in Europe, certainly Russia, China,Japan, and Canadian (a.k.a.: NWO)...would
be stressing America is responsible for this 'about to happen' problem
and insist 'America the responsible' assist Castro and his forces to recapture
these dangerous escaped Muslim extremists.
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- And of course the US government certainly comply.
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- 11. We are about to, in the months to come, possibly
witness the fall of the current Cuban governing structure...this as noted
here could be an elemental potential cause.
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- 12. There may be many elements in the Cuban communistic
regime of the aging Castro which would like to see this scenario occur
as well. Because it would absolutely force the bringing about the normalization
of US relations with Cuba using it as a linch pin.
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- It, as a whimical note...may be in Castro's favor, if,
he comes in contact with any Afghan escapees. That he in fact also has
a beard and actually resembles Osama Bin Laden.
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- However, mentally by that time these 'psyched out' disoriented
detainnees probably won't even care...because they'll just be a bunch of
starving nuts running about with no mind references other than finding
a cave to live in...or a way out of the Cuban jungles and return to their
past desert homes...so to speak.
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- Note: To those in Project Echelon intercepting this message...because
of the many key words that appear in it. I'd like you to know...I think
this is a great idea !
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- To quote the words of Col. Oliver North regarding this.."
I think it's neat !".
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- Thanks Jeff... Stay strong and live constructively,
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- The 'DENIE'
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