- April 7, 2002 -- Yesterday
a friend called and asked: "Have you noticed the similarities between
the siege of the Church of the Nativity and what happened in Waco? The
same scenario is being played out."
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- He reminded me of unfolding events, even as this is being
written: helicopter gunships flying over a church, tanks running around
outside, complete control of the "news" reports on the situation,
"gunmen" inside who hold "hostages," the inexplicable
release of some of these hostages who tell their stories to the
"authorities"
and the puppet news media, etc., etc.
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- Indeed, why should we be surprised at the similarities?
The man who directed the Waco Holocaust is the very man who now directs
USrael's War of Terror. I'm talking about Charlie-Manson-Wrapped-In
The-Amerikan-Flag.
I'm talking about a four-star piece of human trash.
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- I'M TALKING ABOUT GEN. "WACO WAYNE"
DOWNING.
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- Waco Wayne is a former commander of the Special
Operations
Command, which was made a separate command within the US military as a
result of legislation introduced by then Sen. William Cohen. Special Ops
is Usrael's team of gleeful assassins -- helter skelter in uniform.
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- During the Waco Holocaust, Gen. Downing -- A West Point
graduate -- was commander of Special Ops. Downing and his men operated
behind the civilian facades of the ATF and the FBI, pretending the junket
was "law enforcement" gone wrong.
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- Back in 1993, the Special Operations 160th Special
Operations
Aviation Regiment (Airborne) had exclusive use of the signature black
helicopters.
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- See "The Black Army, and "A Death Cult Wears
Black," at: http:
//www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/page/w_g.html
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://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/page/w_ga.html
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- It was Special Ops helicopters, not "National
Guard"
helicopters, that strafed the women's and children's quarters in the Mt.
Carmel Center on February 28, 1993, killing an unknown number by shooting
through the wooden roof of the Mt. Carmel Center.
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- Waco Wayne's brazen defiance of public witness in his
handling of April 19, 1993 almost ruined his murderous career. TV cameras
picked one up of the Special Ops arsonists casually watching the fire from
a rooftop, casually jumping off a roof and landing on his feet, casually
taking off a fire hood, and casually walking to awaiting tanks.
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- Other TV cameras captured tanks pushing crime scene
evidence
at the burning Mt. Carmel Center into the fire. Yet other TV cameras
picked
up soldiers with flame throwers on the grounds of the Mt. Carmel
Center.
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- Linda Thompson put this footage into her Waco videos,
and her videos caused an uproar all over the US. The footage contained
in Linda's videos left the official Waco fall-guy -- Janet Reno -- severely
embarrassed. Downing's subsequent and consistent lying to Reno and the
DoJ concerning the details of the massacre created a groundswell of
resentment
against him. Reno and others successfully forced Waco Wayne's
retirement.
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- On March 1, 1996, the Tampa Tribune published an article
on the retirement of Downing and the installation of his successor, Hugh
Shelton: "MacDill Special Forces Chief Installed."
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- http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/war/doc/w_doc11.html
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- (I wrote a piece about the matter at the time -- you
may be able to find it in the Usenet archives. Search for "four-star
piece of trash".)
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- The Washington Post ran a puff piece on Downing last
fall, describing him as "special advisor" to the President and
the National Security Council on terrorism. See "The Secret
Warrior,"
which appeared in the Style Section of the Washington Post on November
20, 2001.
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- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55417-2001Nov19.html
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- (Text attached below.)
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- The Post article reminds us: "In the Panama
invasion
just before Christmas 1989, Downing oversaw the toppling of Manuel
Noriega."
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- Recall that Downing killed thousands of Panamanians in
indiscriminate bombing and strafing runs (see video "Panama
Deception.")
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- http://www.empowermentproject.org/panama.htm
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- Recall that when Noriega sought refuge in the Papal
Nunciature,
Downing blasted the building for three days with skull-numbing, high volume
rock-n'roll.
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- Recall that during the Waco siege, Downing blasted David
Koresh and those loyal to him with the same high-volume noise
torture.
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- Now chances are very good Downing is helping direct an
attack on the Church of the Nativity, said to have been built over the
birthplace of Jesus Christ.
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- You can rest assured of one thing: Downing will never
attack a synagogue.
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- When you read "The Secret Warrior," notice
the following: The Post tells us Waco Wayne declined to be interviewed
for the November 20 article, and quotes an anonymous National Security
Council spokesman: "He doesn't want publicity and in fact he's trying
to avoid it."
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- What a laugh! Of course Downing wanted the article.
He facilitated it. He had his mom and his best buddy talk to the Post
for him. That gives him the best of both worlds: His story is out, yet
he maintains deniability.
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- Old Ma Downing talks about how poor she was, trying to
bring up her little killer on a World War II widow's pension. Then Waco
Wayne's best buddy, Jim Kimsey, speaks up.
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- The Post describes Jim Kimsey as "Downing's friend
for more than 40 years, a fellow West Point grad and Ranger, and co-founder
of Amerca-on-Line."
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- Repeat: Waco Wayne's best buddy co-founded
America-on-Line.
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- The Post writes about Kimsey: "Classical music
fills the posh office. Jim Kimsey speaks quietly, even when he's talking
about killing." Kimsey is "a dashing figure at 62, much like
Downing, a fellow Ranger he calls his kindred soul."
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- Hey, these killers are classy, trim, elegant, and
refined,
get it? They're not all crippled up and they don't shout like Dr.
Strangelove
when talking about mass murder . . .
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- The Post goes on to say: "He [Kimsey] has offered
Downing his views on hunting down Osama bin Laden and the al Qaeda network.
The politicians and war planners need to act more like their enemy, Kimsey
advised."
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- Now that is one true statement! Osama bin Laden deplores
the slaughter of women and children, saying Islam strictly forbids it,
even in the heat of battle. See: http://www.public-action.c
om/911/oblintrv.html
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- But that's not what Kimsey is talking about. Kimsey
WANTS Downing to slaughter women and children.
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- "'I told Wayne, 'I'm going to send all these guys
[in charge] a copy of The Godfather,' ... You've got to think like the
Mafia thinks. No, it isn't going to be fair. You're going to whack 'em
at home. You're going to do stuff to their families. You've got to play
dirty. You've got to get in bed with dirty people ... Wayne knows how
to think like that."
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- You bet Waco Wayne knows how to whack 'em at home and
"do stuff" to their families. Waco Wayne and his apes whacked
Davidian Rosemary Morrison and did "stuff" to her 7-year old
daughter, Melissa.
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- Here is 7-year old Melissa Morrison in life: http://
www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/74/74_aut.html
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- And here is a picture of Melissa after Waco Wayne and
his apes did "stuff" to her. ht
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and 6-year old Crystal Martinez, after Waco Wayne's people did
"stuff"
to her. ht
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- Notice that Kimsey attributes to Christian Italians the
despicable actions of "whacking" family members? Sorry, that's
not an Italian habit. On the other hand, Talmudic Israelis, for whom Waco
Wayne has been working for years, are given to exactly that. Read the
bloody history of the state of Israel and its butchery of Palestinian
families.
Remember Dier Yassin, and the Sabra and Shantila Massacres?
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- http://www.abbc.com/islam/english/toread/massac2.htm
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- (Or if you want to go back further, try the Book of
Joshua
in the Old Testament, wherein the ancient Hebrews slaughtered every living
thing in Canaan, every man, every woman, every child -- all with de Lawd's
blessing, of course.)
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- Notice that the Post has Kimsey mouth Downing's policy
of murdering mothers and children, rather than having Downing do it.
Kimsey
pretends that he is recommending a course of action his friend has not
already embraced. That's deniability for you.
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- So that's the crowd now running USrael's War of
Terrorism.
And that's the crowd making war on the Church of the Nativity. You
don't suppose they'd burn the Church of the Nativity down too, then say
the Palestinians did it? Will they sent up the signature Special Ops
fireball,
as they did in Waco?
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- http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/fire/fire.html<
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- After all, April 19 is coming up.
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- No, just kidding . . .
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- The Secret Warrior - Gen. Wayne Downing,
From West Point to White House
- By Richard Leiby
- Washington Post Staff Writer
- Tuesday, November 20, 2001; Page
C01
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- The West Point pep rally is going full bore: band music,
a bonfire, bellicose chants of "Beat Navy, Beat Navy."
Helicopters
swoop in ferrying Army Rangers, the lightning-fast troops famed for leaping
into hostile territory.
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- For this annual display of fighting spirit before the
Army-Navy game, elite units often roll in to impress the wide-eyed cadets.
Tonight the Rangers will show off their "fast rope training,"
dropping 80 feet from the sky like human smart bombs, amid simulated
artillery
blasts.
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- It's November 1995, and this rally will radiate in West
Point legend. Wayne Allan Downing, Class of '62, is part of the camouflaged
fast-rope squad. The crowd explodes when the four-star general later
reveals
himself in the spotlight. Though headed for retirement, the old warrior
still has it. Rangers lead the way.
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- Wayne Downing is the most famous terrorism fighter you've
never heard of. Less than a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, he shelved
his semi-retirement to coordinate the nation's far-flung campaign "to
detect, disrupt and destroy global terrorist organizations and those who
support them," as the White House put it. He has the president's ear
-- but whatever he's saying is not for public consumption. Even the size
of his staff has been deemed a national security secret.
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- As a young Ranger, Downing, now 61, learned to stalk
the enemy at night and capture rattlesnakes for food. In 34 years he rose
through the ranks to command all special operations troops, including the
clandestine Delta Force commandos whose close-quarter tactics are vital
in places like Afghanistan. Battle-tested in Vietnam, Panama and the
Persian
Gulf, Downing is revered among the elite soldiers who call themselves
"the
quiet professionals."
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- He reports to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice
and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. He has more experience with
terrorism
than either of them. His unwieldy title is national director and deputy
national security adviser for combating terrorism. Those who admire Downing
would suggest a more concise one: the president's secret weapon.
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- "They brought him in because he knows how to get
things done," says L. Paul Bremer, the State Department's ambassador
at large for counterterrorism during the Reagan administration. "The
bureaucracy very often needs a very good kick in the pants. He's going
to have to crack some heads together."
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- "He has a tremendous network," says former
Defense Intelligence Agency director James R. Clapper Jr. "I am kind
of the president of the Wayne Downing Fan Club."
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- "He is an icon in the special operations
world,"
says Andrew Levene, a former Ranger sergeant who served under Downing's
command. "He is the consummate warrior. He is the guy who will say,
'We have to hunt these people down and kill 'em.' "
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- "If you called Central Casting you couldn't find
a better person to fill this job," says Jim Kimsey, Downing's friend
for more than 40 years. A fellow West Point grad and Ranger, Kimsey left
the Army after eight years and went on to co-found America Online.
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- "Wayne stuck it out, thank God for us all,"
he says, "and went on to be our head snake eater."
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- A Prescient Warning
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- Downing would not grant an interview. "He doesn't
want publicity and in fact he's trying to avoid it," says a spokesman
for the National Security Council.
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- "He's been that way all his life," says his
mother, Eileen Downing. "Very close-mouthed. He would say, 'To keep
a secret you don't tell one other person, Mother.' "
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- But for brief periods he has ventured into the limelight,
usually to sound the alarm about terrorism. Since leaving the Army in 1996,
he has served on task forces investigating how terrorists operate and
urging
heightened security.
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- "They and their state sponsors have begun an
undeclared
war on the United States," he wrote in an August 1996 review of the
truck-bombing of the Khobar Towers military housing complex in Saudi Arabia
that killed 19 and wounded hundreds more. "They must be seen as
'soldiers'
employing different means of achieving their political and military goals.
They wear uniforms we cannot recognize and use tactics that we find
repugnant
and cowardly . . . Fanatics will be prepared to sacrifice their lives to
achieve their goals."
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- Downing also war-gamed a scenario that exposed America's
vulnerability to chemical and biological attacks. It foresaw terrorists
releasing chemical agents with crop-dusting planes. Carl Stiner, a fellow
retired general, recalled that he and Downing delivered their findings
to the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 1997.
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- On Sept. 12, 2001, Downing was on ABC, explaining to
viewers of "Nightline" the notion of "asymmetric"
warfare:
These foes, though small in number, knew exactly how to exploit the
weaknesses
of the strongest nation on Earth. "The paradigm has changed,"
he said. "And this isn't going to be over in a month or two months
or six months. But this may well take years."
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- ABC quickly signed him up as an on-air consultant. These
days Downing wears his gray hair slightly longer than when he was a West
Point plebe; on camera he looked a bit uncomfortable, his neck tightly
cinched in a button-down shirt. But his authority was obvious.
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- "We're going to find out where they are," he
said of the perpetrators. "And then we're going to go get
them."
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- It was no saber-rattling act. He made it sound like his
destiny.
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- Downing once was courted for the job of White House drug
czar, but friends say he felt that was an unwinnable war. He later vowed
he wouldn't return to the government unless there were a national
emergency.
He preferred to stay in Colorado, enjoying the fishing and skiing, the
time with his wife and grandkids. He also had enough land for four hefty
Labradors.
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- But on Oct. 9, he reenlisted for public service, leaving
the army of TV talking heads and giving up his seat on the board of an
Australian high-tech weapons firm, Metal Storm, which boasts of inventing
a gun that can fire a million rounds a minute. And he put aside another
of his passions: serving as military adviser to a group of Iraqi dissidents
who have been hoping for years to depose dictator Saddam Hussein.
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- He was no longer interested in media attention. He spoke
for a minute and a half at the news conference announcing his White House
post before concluding, "It's going to be a tough fight, but we will
prevail. Thank you very much."
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- Then he exited to the shadows.
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- Living History
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- As a boy in Peoria, Ill., Downing was steeped in tales
of military heroism. His mother would read to him from the newspaper about
the progress of the war against Germany and Japan. He listened to radio
reports. "He knew where everybody was and who commanded them. He was
totally fascinated by the military stuff," recalls Eileen Downing,
now 80.
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- Though very young, Wayne had a compelling reason to pay
attention: His father was fighting his way across Europe. Pfc. Francis
Wayne "Bud" Downing served in the storied 9th Armored Division,
which on March 7, 1945, crossed the Rhine via a railroad bridge at Remagen,
ushering the American juggernaut into the heart of the German Reich.
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- In Peoria and elsewhere, the headlines surged with
optimism:
Hitler would soon be finished. "The war is over, I tell you,"
one general assured his colleagues. "The war is over."
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- On March 27, Wayne's father participated in a night
attack
to liberate a camp full of starving POWs near Limburg. The unit suffered
heavy casualties -- including 25-year-old Pfc. Downing -- in what was its
last major engagement of World War II.
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- He was buried in the Netherlands. His son was not yet
5.
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- Raising Wayne and his two younger sisters, Eileen Downing
insisted on discipline and structure -- regular churchgoing and mealtimes.
"We did all the same things just like when a father came home in the
evening," she recalls. "Except there was no father."
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- Survivor benefits barely kept the family fed. "You
had pennies in your hand at the end of the month," she says.
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- Across the street lived Joe Powers, sent home after being
wounded in the 101st Airborne. "He'd be sitting on his swing on his
porch, looking forlorn because there weren't any other young men
around,"
says Eileen Downing. She sent her boy over to talk with Joe.
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- "They became best friends. He was Wayne's hero.
He came home one day and said, 'I know what I'm going to do, I'm going
to jump out of airplanes, just like Joe.' "
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- At 17, Wayne won automatic nomination to the U.S.
Military
Academy at West Point as the son of a deceased veteran. He still had to
meet the academic and physical qualifications for appointment, which he
did.
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- As a young company commander in Vietnam, Downing
distinguished
himself in combat and was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
"The word is hero. Sure he's a hero," says a friend who asked
that his name not be used. "That was a bloody, bloody time frame.
He basically could have won a lot of Purple Hearts -- he got shot at a
lot."
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- But Downing never talked about his wounds. He'd rather
tell jokes and remember the esprit de corps, and whatever passed for good
times. Friends say he took his work very seriously but he never took
himself
>too seriously.
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- "We were all immediately captivated by him,"
recalls Gen. William "Buck" Kernan, a company commander when
Downing headed the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Fort Lewis, Wash., in the late
1970s. "He came in very young-looking, probably one of the youngest
lieutenant colonels in the Army at the time."
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- But Bill Lind, a defense specialist on the staff of
then-Sen.
Gary Hart, wasn't impressed when he went to Fort Lewis to observe the
Rangers.
He told Downing the training was too rigid, as if combat unfolded according
to a script. "That's training for an opera company, not for war,"
Lind declared.
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- He expected a fistfight. "Everybody who goes to
visit the Rangers always says they're great. Here's a civilian who tells
them they're full of crap," Lind says. But Downing was open-minded.
"He says, 'Tell me more. What do you think we should be doing?'
"
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- Downing was known for dispensing with formula.
"Think
like a bank robber" was his oft-quoted admonition.
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- "He recognized you had to harden yourself mentally
and physically and use guile and cunning," says Buck Kernan. "You
had to always be ahead of your adversary, you had to
anticipate."
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- Rangers learn to endure hunger and sleep deprivation,
to improvise and surprise their enemies. Even today they hew to the
standing
orders laid down by Maj. Robert Rogers in 1759, not long after he'd
organized
ragtag colonials to fight in the French and Indian War. Including this
one:
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- "Let the enemy come till he's almost close enough
to touch, then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your
hatchet."
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- Receiving Noriega
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- There's no shortage of PowerPoint soldiers at the
Pentagon,
but Downing preferred a hands-on approach. That, along with devotion to
the troops, made him a legendary leader. He was based at Fort Bragg, N.C.,
and then at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where he gained the coveted
job of commander in chief of the Special Operations Command.
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- In the Panama invasion just before Christmas 1989,
Downing
oversaw the toppling of Manuel Noriega. The dictator, wanted in this
country
on drug charges, had holed up in the Papal Nunciature in Panama City for
11 days, then sent out a request: He wanted to surrender wearing his
general's
uniform. The Americans retrieved one, and Noriega surrendered in the middle
of the street -- to Downing himself.
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- During the Gulf War, hundreds of commandos working for
Downing infiltrated Iraq to find the Scud missiles that Saddam Hussein
was lobbing at Israel. Rick Atkinson's book "Crusade: The Untold Story
of the Persian Gulf War," reports that Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
had to warn Downing not to get carried away and go behind enemy lines
himself.
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- "You work for me, you son of a bitch,"
Schwarzkopf
told Downing. "If you personally go into Iraq, I'm going to relieve
you."
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- "You don't have to tell me that," Downing shot
back.
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- "I know you," said Schwarzkopf. "I don't
want you going across that border and getting yourself captured or killed.
One, because it's an embarrassment, and two, because you know too
much."
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- How effective were Downing's secret Scud hunters? The
CIA has never confirmed that any of the weapons were destroyed. But retired
Gen. Carl Stiner credits the commandos with demobilizing the missiles,
calling Downing the man who "shut down the Scuds. . . . He contributed
immeasurably to the success of that war."
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- In October 1993, Downing was running the Special
Operations
Command in Tampa when 18 American soldiers died during the disastrous
effort
to capture warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed in Mogadishu, Somalia. The
four-star
general, as chronicled in Mark Bowden's book "Black Hawk Down,"
briefly spoke with the on-the-ground commander, Maj. Gen. William Garrison,
but backed off, believing "the last thing his friend needed at that
moment was some desk jockey 13,000 miles away looking over his
shoulder."
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- Garrison took full responsibility for the outcome of
the battle and it destroyed his career. Within days, Downing arrived in
Mogadishu to check on the troops, "as any good commander would,"
says a friend. A Somali militia was still shelling. A mortar round hit
the Rangers' airfield encampment, killing one soldier and seriously
wounding
a dozen others.
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- That mortar almost killed Downing. "It was really
close," the friend says.
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- Basic Training
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- March 2001: A cadre of Iraqi rebels descend on a training
camp in Texas. For five days they fire pistols, shotguns and Kalashnikov
rifles, and otherwise hone their combat and self-defense skills.
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- They are bitter foes of Saddam Hussein. Members of the
Iraqi National Congress, they dream of the day when they can march
triumphantly
into Baghdad as a liberation army.
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- Their mentor -- and biggest cheerleader -- is Wayne
Downing.
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- "This is the first time they are being trained to
do anything on this level," the former general tells a United Press
International reporter. But to Downing the weapons course, paid for by
the United States, is a "drop in the bucket." What the dissidents
really need, he says, is training on "antitank weapons, machine guns,
rockets, that sort of thing."
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- Downing has supported an insurrection in Iraq for several
years, arguing that Hussein's regime could be toppled if only America had
the guts to arm and support the Iraqi National Congress, a rebel coalition
based in London. Calling on influential lawmakers, Downing helped win
passage
in 1998 of the Iraq Liberation Act, which set aside nearly $100 million
for military weaponry and training for anti-Hussein warriors.
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- The idea of overthrowing Hussein had wide political
support
and endorsements from people like Donald Rumsfeld, but was never fully
embraced by the Clinton White House. Some national security experts and
military analysts consider Downing's military plan half-baked: a potential
replay of the Bay of Pigs bloodbath in Cuba.
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- "I have had visits from the opposition groups,
trying
to convince me that 1,000 men, armed, placed into Iraq, would have the
entire regime toppled; the regular army would fold," retired Marine
Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, former commander of U.S. forces in the Persian
Gulf, told a Senate hearing last year. Zinni clearly didn't buy it.
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- "Be careful," he said. "Bay of Pigs could
turn into Bay of Goats."
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- Plotting Payback
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- Classical music fills the posh office. Jim Kimsey speaks
quietly, even when he's talking about killing.
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- White-haired and chiseled, Kimsey cuts a dashing figure
at 62, much like Downing, the fellow Ranger he calls his kindred soul.
A billionaire thanks to his business acumen, Kimsey today runs a
philanthropic
foundation within sight of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where
his old buddy works.
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- He has offered Downing his views on hunting down Osama
bin Laden and the al Qaeda network. The politicians and war planners need
to act more like their enemy, Kimsey advised.
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- "I told Wayne, 'I'm going to send all these guys
[in charge] a copy of 'The Godfather.' . . . You've got to think like the
Mafia thinks. No, it isn't going to be fair. You're going to whack 'em
at home. You're going to do stuff to their families. You've got to play
dirty. You've got to get in bed with dirty people. . . . Wayne knows how
to think like that."
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- Downing, at least publicly, hasn't used the word dirty.
Aggressive, yes. Relentless, yes. "Twenty-four hours a day, seven
days a week, 365 days a year," he vowed the day he took the job,
"we
intend to give these people and those who support them no place to
hide."
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