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reply posted on 28-7-2007 @ 07:10 AM by Project_Silo
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excessive qouting much?you should edit and send urself a u2u haah.
On a serious note you provide a lot of information i had never known.thank you.
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reply posted on 11-8-2007 @ 08:56 AM by Hellmutt
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UN "Peacekeepers" Supplied Weapons In Return For Gold
This is probably not related to Charles Taylor or Viktor Bout, but still releated to weapons trafficking in Africa. It has been revealed that UN
soldiers from Pakistan supplied weapons in return for gold in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
BBC: UN troops 'helped smuggle gold'
11 August 2007
The BBC has obtained an internal UN report examining allegations of gold smuggling by Pakistani peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It concluded that Pakistani officers provided armed escorts, hospitality and food to gold smugglers in east Congo.
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They helped bring peace to an area that had previously seen bitter fighting between the Lendu and Hema ethnic groups.
But witnesses claimed Pakistani officers also supplied weapons to notorious FNI militia commanders in return for gold. Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
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reply posted on 11-8-2007 @ 11:44 AM by Hellmutt
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Operation Firedump
A Viktor Bout plane to look out for.
TYR: On the road again
August 01, 2007
Antonov An-12BK serial 9346904, now with something called "Meridian" in the Ukraine as UR-CAG...formerly ER-AXY with the following roll-call of
Viktor Bout operations.
Aerocom, Asterias Commercial, Astral Aviation, ATI, ACS, Jet Line International...
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reply posted on 13-8-2007 @ 01:41 AM by Hellmutt
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Viktor Bout - Missing Weapons
Viktor Bout transported at least 200,000 AK-47 assault rifles from Bosnia to Iraq. These weapons are missing and have likely been used against U.S.
forces.
Douglas Farah: Some of the
Missing Weapons to Iraq Transported by Viktor Bout's Network
Aug 6 2007
Today’s Washington Post brings the
disturbing news of tens of thousands of weapons that were supposed to be delivered to Iraq from Bosnia that are now unaccounted for.
In fact, the number is likely far larger than the 190,000 mentioned in the story. And as the story notes, many of those missing weapons have likely
been used against U.S. forces in Iraq, having been acquired by the insurgents.
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While the GAO report on which the Post based its story is useful, in fact the problem is far larger, as we show. Viktor Bout’s aircraft, we found,
transported at least 200,000 AK-47 assault rifles from Bosnia arsenals, supposedly to Iraq in 2004, although there was no record of the weapons ever
having arrived in Iraq.
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reply posted on 17-8-2007 @ 02:49 AM by Hellmutt
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reply posted on 19-8-2007 @ 08:44 PM by Hellmutt
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reply posted on 10-9-2007 @ 06:10 PM by Hellmutt
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More on Viktor Bout and Somalia
Here's an interesting article. I recommend reading the full
version.
American Chronicle: Somalia: Monitoring Group's Credibility and
Integrity Questioned
 “…Twice in one week the airport at Mogadishu, Somalia, was the scene of something almost unseen in the past decade-the landing of two large
Soviet-era IL-76 cargo planes… On the first flight, the plane was painted with the “UN” markings denoting Kazakstan registration, with no other
identifiers. The second flight may have been the same aircraft, and if not, was a similar Il-76… Hmm, so an unmarked Soviet-built aircraft probably
carrying large amounts of weapons, flying to remote airstrips …Kazakstan registration… Fits a certain M.O. There are not many people in the
weapons world who can provide the weapons and the transportation, who know the terrain and the militia leaders…Bout has registered his Reem Air in
Kazakstan, including an IL-76, and has flown regularly smaller planes to Somalia in recent times, from Sharjah, UAE…No one else has that kind of
track record. Intelligence officials are desperately trying to find any further markers on the aircraft. But if it flies like a duck and quacks like a
duck, it just might be a duck…” Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
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reply posted on 14-9-2007 @ 06:53 PM by Hellmutt
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Viktor Bout, US Government and US Contractors
From a recent interview with Farah. Apparently, Paul Wolfowitz didn't respond to queries for nine months. Branches of the military continued to use
Viktor Bout for many months, after it was publicly known that they were using him, after a congressional inquiry, executive order and the freezing of
assets by the Treasury Department ( which started this thread). Hundreds, and perhaps a thousand flights to Iraq for the US...
Meet Viktor Bout, the Real-Life 'Lord of War'
September 13, 2007
DF: The U.S. government response to revelations of the use of Viktor Bout to fly for government contractors in Iraq (not just a few flights,
but hundreds, and perhaps a thousand) has been mixed. Bear in mind most of these flights occurred after President Bush had signed an executive order
making it illegal to do business with Bout, because he represented a security threat to the United States. The State Department, under a congressional
inquiry initiated by Senator Russell Feingold, found it had used Bout companies, acknowledged it, and stopped. Paul Wolfowitz, while at DOD, did not
respond to queries for nine months, then acknowledged that DOD contractors had subcontracted to Bout companies. Despite the public revelation, the
congressional inquiry, the executive order, and a subsequent Treasury Department order freezing the assets of Bout and his closest associates, the
flights continued for many months, at least until the end of 2005. The Air Force cut him off immediately, but other branches of the military continued
to use him.
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reply posted on 26-10-2007 @ 03:07 AM by Hellmutt
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More Viktor Bout + Tomislav Damjanovic
Remember the 99-tons of weapons that went missing, when it was supposed to be transported from the Balkans to Iraq? Remember the mysterious plane that
was landing in Mogadishu? Here's an interesting report.
TYR: Fascinating Report out on Viktor Bout & Co
October 23, 2007
The International Herald-Tribune has an interesting article about a
Serbian gun-runner and colleague of Viktor Bout's, one Tomislav Damjanovic.
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the report is based on one prepared by the Belgrade-based South-Eastern European Small Arms Centre, which according to the IHT has been distributed
among customs, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. You'll be pleased to know someone left a link to it in the comments; you can read it
here (pdf).
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it was Damjanovic who took on US military contracts to acquire arms in the Balkans and send them to Iraq, and some other places too. The now-infamous
99 tonnes of weapons that went missing between Tuzla and Baghdad? One of his jobs.
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an aircraft he chartered from GST Aero (them!) travelled from Baghdad via Sharjah to Oman, where it ostensibly "refuelled", and then proceeded to be
the famous first plane into Mogadishu.
There's more. Visit the link to read
more.
The "mysterious jet" landing in Mogadishu
Related Thread:
Somalia: Mogadishu Is Burning, page 4
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reply posted on 26-10-2007 @ 04:44 AM by twitchy
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Thought I'd throw this into the mix here Hellmutt...
I think the total of missing AK47's I linked to earlier is now up to a half a million. how somebody looses half a million machine guns is beyond my
reasoning, but then so is people selling arms to the insurgency they are being hired to secure against.
Crazy stuff man, scary thread.
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reply posted on 28-10-2007 @ 06:42 AM by Hellmutt
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Originally posted by twitchy
Thought I'd throw this into the mix here Hellmutt...
Exellent
I wonder if any weapons were stolen. And where they all ended up, stolen or not.
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reply posted on 14-11-2007 @ 01:56 AM by Hellmutt
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Diamonds are "no longer the militants' best friend"...
RIA Novosti: Diamonds no longer militants' best friend
The Kimberley Process, an international initiative opposed to the trade in "blood diamonds" - uncut diamonds used to fund conflicts in Africa - met
November 5-9 in Brussels for its 5th annual plenary meeting.
The delegates may well be proud: blood diamond sales have dropped sharply in recent years.
And while illicit stones have been squeezed out of the market, the supply of legally sourced diamonds has been unable to keep pace with demand. So the
future looks bright (or at least profitable) for legitimate traders in the "girls' best friend".
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Most of these conflicts are now over. The only country on the KP black list today is Cote d'Ivoire, which could also be struck off following the
signing of an armistice between the government and rebels in March. Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
So... the future apparently looks profitable for legitimate diamond traders. And Cote d'Ivoire is the only country still on the black list, since
"most of these conflicts are now over". Hmmm...
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reply posted on 5-1-2008 @ 11:23 PM by Hellmutt
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Taylor On Trial In The Hague
Charles "The Butcher of Monrovia" Taylor goes on trial in The Hague next week.
Der Spiegel: Liberian Dictator Taylor Faces Justice for Sierra Leone War
 Former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor goes on trial in The Hague next week, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity during the
decade-long civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
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reply posted on 7-1-2008 @ 10:50 PM by Hellmutt
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They are looking at shocking footages at the Taylor trial.
BBC: Shocking footage at Taylor trial
 Video footage of mutilated victims of Sierra Leone rebels has been shown at the war crimes trial of Liberia's former President Charles
Taylor.
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Video of a Sierra Leonean diamond miner was shown to the court, in which he described how his hands were hacked off by laughing Revolutionary United
Front (RUF) rebels who later burned down torched his house, killing his wife and children.
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The trial is expected to last about 18 months. Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
18 months...
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reply posted on 21-1-2008 @ 10:10 AM by Hellmutt
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General Butt Naked
General Butt Naked confesses to killing 20,000 people. He says he should be forgiven. He has now turned away from Satan and become a born-again
Christian.
Gen. Butt Naked, Liberian ex-rebel leader, confesses to killing
thousands
by The Associated Press
published January 21, 2008
One of Liberia's most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked, has returned to confess his role in terrorizing the nation, saying he is
responsible for 20,000 deaths.
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Other warlords, though, have refused to ask forgiveness, dismissing a commission many in Liberia see as toothless. Blahyi is urging other former
killers to come forward as the country founded by freed American slaves in 1847 struggles to recover from past horrors.
"I could be electrocuted. I could be hanged. I could be given any other punishment," the 37-year-old Blahyi said in a weekend interview following
his truth commission appearance last week. "But I think forgiveness and reconciliation is the right way to go.
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In 1996, while charging naked into a battle, Blahyi said God appeared and told him he was a slave to Satan, not the hero he considered himself to be,
according to an earlier interview with The Associated Press.
He became a born-again Christian and for a while, traversed the war-wracked streets of Monrovia selling cassettes of his sermons. Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
I don't think I would want to celebrate Christmas with this guy!
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reply posted on 21-1-2008 @ 01:18 PM by twitchy
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Butt Naked? LOL
Quite a nutjob...
Source
when he was just 11 years old when he performed a satanic ritual that demanded that he had to perform human sacrifices. This was the beginning of a
macabre episode in the brutal Liberian civil war. He has admitted to killing several children just for the fun of it. His rise to fame came when he as
a warlord commanded an brigade that called itself the Buttnaked brigade/battalion (it differs somewhat depending on the source), a group of ragtag
drugged and drunken teenage soldiers. They did all dress upp in the most absurd style they could find, some had wedding gowns, dresses, purses and
wigs, others where completely naked. General Butt naked himself drove a motorcycle completely naked, except for his sneakers and a blasting rifle. The
nudity that became his trademark was said to protect him from bullets and therefore he and the Butt naked brigade was completely fearless, he says it
was given to him by Satan. As an independent warlord he and his buttnaked brigade fought for the highest bidder. In the last years of the civil war it
was Roosevelt Johnson that was his source of funds. In this war of brutality that shocked Liberia the Butt naked-brigade where the most gruesome,
famous for using decapitated heads as soccer balls and sacrificed children before every battle for receiving their magical protection.
Buttnaked got his guns from a fellow named Roosevelt Johnson who was fighting ECOMOG control of the diamond mines near Tubmanburg, interestingly in
1998 after a firefight with Charles Taylor's troops, he made it to the US Embassy and was transported out of the country.
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reply posted on 23-1-2008 @ 02:51 AM by Hellmutt
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reply posted on 23-1-2008 @ 03:49 AM by twitchy
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Butt Naked, that cracks me up everytime I read... and then it scares the crap out of me at the same time. Great Thread Helmutt, as always!
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reply posted on 26-1-2008 @ 12:57 AM by twitchy
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Thought you'd get a kick out of this one helmutt...
Source
Wolfowitz appointed chairman of arms-control advisory panel
WASHINGTON - Paul Wolfowitz, the former World Bank president and former deputy secretary of defense who was instrumental in the US decision to invade
Iraq in 2003, has been named chairman of a panel that advises the State Department on arms-control issues.
Wolfowitz, now a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, will head Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's International
Security Advisory Board, the State Department said yesterday in a statement.
"The ISAB provides the Department of State with a source of independent insight, advice, and innovation on all aspects of arms control, disarmament,
nonproliferation, political-military issues, and international security and related aspects of public diplomacy," the State Department said.
Wolfowitz was among the senior US officials who warned of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction capabilities, a key justification for invading
Iraq and toppling the late dictator Saddam Hussein.
"Disarming Iraq of its chemical and biological weapons and dismantling its nuclear weapons program is a crucial part of winning the war on terror,"
Wolfowitz told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in January 2003, two months before the US-led invasion of Iraq.
What a guy Wolfowitz, Zionist Extraordinaire and former head of the World Bank, he's sure to be an asset to the Global Arms Networks in his new
position as chair of an arms control advisory panel. I guess his resignation from the World Bank amid scandals somehow qualifies him for such a
position. World Bank...  I find it quite intriguing that the Axis of Evil we keep hearing about just happen to be some of the few countries
remaining that aren't signatories of the IMF or the World Bank.
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reply posted on 6-3-2008 @ 05:11 PM by Hellmutt
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