And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.
1.
On May 11, 1981, Robert Nesta Marley died from a brain tumor that was the result of cancer that had wracked his body since 1977.
In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a football wound on his right hallux (big toe). Marley refused amputation, citing
worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafarian belief that the body must be "whole"
2.
A tragic death that could be written off to plain bad luck, and an abiding belief in his religion.
Or was it?
Former Black Panther, cinematographer (
The Panama Deception, 1992), and Director (
All Power to the People, 1997) Lee Lew-Lee had a tale
to tell that casts a very different light on the Singers illness.
Lew-Lee was close friends with members of the
Wailers and was camped out with Marley and his band in the peaks of the Blue Mountains near
Kingston.
The band was preparing to perform at the
Smile Jamaica Festival.
Marley and the
Wailers were in hiding before the concert after a nasty run-in with a death squad at Marley's house.
Bob Marley, one of the world's best-known reggae performers, and three other persons were shot December 3rd when seven gunmen burst onto the
grounds of Marley's home in Kingston, Jamaica, where he and his band, the Wailers, were rehearsing. Miraculously, amid a shower of bullets, there
were no fatalities.
3.
The encampment in the Blue Mountains was armed and surrounded by machete wielding Rastafari. Understandably, any white face that were to appear in
this place would have been quite conspicuous.
And a white face did show up at the compound. He claimed to be a camera-man (but he didn't carry a camera) with the film crew that was there for the
concert. His name was Carl Colby and he came bearing a gift for Marley:
In November 1976, the Rasta icon Bob Marley was wounded when his home in Jamaica was attacked by a squad of men wielding automatic weapons. While
convalescing in a guarded encampment in the Blue Mountains outside Kingston, Marley was visited by a man claiming to be part of a film crew, and
bearing a gift: a pair of boots. The visitor was Carl Colby, the son of former CIA director William Colby...
4.
Lew-Lee tells the story:
"LEE: People came by his house. There were always people going in and out. Someone gave Bob a pair of boots. He put his foot in and said "Ow!"
A friend got in there - you know how Jamaicans are. He said,"let's get in here" - in the boot, and he pulled a piece of copper wire out. It was
embedded in the boot.
A.C.: Do you believe it was radioactive?
LEE: I didn't think so at the time, but I've always had my suspicions because Marley later broke his toe playing soccer, and when the bone wouldn't
mend, the doctors found that the toe had cancer. The cancer metastasized throughout his body..."
5.
Marley's manager, Don Taylor (a man who made questionable decisions with Marley's money) wrote in his book
Marley and Me that a "senior CIA
agent" had been planted amoung the crew, assassination was the objective.
When Marley was diagnosed with cancer, he returned to Jamaica where he was referred to Dr. Carl "Pee Wee" Fraser. Fraser advised Marley to seek
treatment from a Dr. Josef Issels in Bavaria.
Issels has an interesting past.
" He was tortured toward the end of his life, the last 6 months of his life he was in the hands of a Nazi doctor. In fact, Dr. Issells, who was
supposedly treating Marley may have saved his life if he was a legitimate doctor, was in fact starving him and shoving long needles through his body,
and that kind of has nothing to do with cancer treatment. That's the bahviour of an SS officer, and that's what the doctor was."
6.
Issels worked under the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.
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[edit on 27/11/2006 by Beelzebubba]
