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<h2>contrcia</h2>
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<p>SECRET TEAM OF WEAPONS DEALERS
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by Vince Bielski</p>
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<p> A "secret team" of former CIA and military officials and
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arms dealers are responsible for the covert weapons shipments to
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Iran and the contras under the direction of fired White House
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aide Lt. Col. Oliver <span class="PERSON">North</span>.</p>
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<p> Members of the "secret team" came together in the secret war
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against Cuba in 1961, and have since been involved in "political
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assassination" programs in Laos, Vietnam, Chile and now
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Nicaragua.</p>
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<p> The "secret team," through an association with known Mafia
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leaders, has resorted to opium and cocaine trafficking to
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finance their operations.</p>
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<p> Edwin Wilson, the ex-CIA operative convicted for selling
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explosives to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, was an active member.</p>
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<p> These allegations are part of a lengthy affidavit filed this
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week in a Miami federal court in support of a law suit brought
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by Dan Sheehan, an attorney with the Christic Institute in
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Washington. The suit names 29 alledged operatives in the contras
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arms network as defendants.</p>
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<p> The suit alleges that the defendants supplied the C-4
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explosives which were used in the May 1984 assassination attempt
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against contra leader Eden Pastora in Nicaragua in which eight
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people were killed and Pastora injured. The plaintiffs, Martha
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Honey and Tony Avirgan, are American journalists who are sueing
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for personal injuries they suffered from the bombing.</p>
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<p> The Christic Institute, a church funded public interest law
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firm, has taken on controversial cases in the past, such as the
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suit against Kerr McGree Nuclear Corporation on behalf of Karen
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Silkwood. And it was while Sheehan was defending a sanctuary
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worker that he received information which led him
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into the investigation of the contra arms supply opertation.</p>
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<p> In March 1984, he learned from a member of the Federal
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Emergency Management Agency that FEMA had a highly secret plan to
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"deputize" government and State National Guard personnel for the
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purpose of interning 400000 undocumented Central
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Americans in detention centers in the event that President Reagan
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launched "Operation Night-train"--a military invasion into
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Central America.</p>
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<p> The plan also called for the distribution from U.S. military
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bases of hundreds of tons of weapons to be used by newly created
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State Defense Forces, composed of civilians, who would help
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enforce the "State of Domestic National Emergency" during the
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invasion. Sheehan learned from a Louisiana State National Guard
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Colonel that a State Defense Force in Louisiana planned to give
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half of the weapons it received to the contras.</p>
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<p> In Miami, former U.S. military personnel and active National
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Guard units had organized a para-military organization, called
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Civilian Military Assistance, to arm, train and fight with the
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contras. The group, headed by Tom Posey, obtained "surplus"
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military equipment from the 20th Special Forces Unit of the U.S.
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Army in Alabama, Sheehan learned from a member of the group.</p>
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<p> In June 1984, Sheehan was informed a man who
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working with the para-military organization in helping arm the
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contras also claimed to be a "personal representative to the
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Contras of...Lt. Col. Oliver <span class="PERSON">North</span>." His name is Robert <span class="PERSON">Owen</span>.</p>
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<p> One year later, Sheehan began putting this information into
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a law suit when he learned that Posey, <span class="PERSON">Owen</span> and others
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were allegedly involved in the bombing of the Pastora press
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conference which caused physical and personal injury to the two
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American reporters.</p>
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<p> Sheehans investigation also led him to the discovery of a
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"secret team" of former high ranking U.S. officials and officers
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who oversaw the procurement and shipment of weapons to the
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contras to to Iran. Through Posey, <span class="PERSON">Owen</span> and other they allegedly
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supplied the explosives for the press conference bombing. The
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"secret team" includes former high-ranking CIA officials Theodore
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Shackley and Thomas <span class="PERSON">Clines</span>, ret. Air Force Gen. Richard Secord,
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ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson, and two arms dealers, Albert Hakim
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(of Los Gatos) and Rafael Quintero, both of whom are U.S.
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citizens.</p>
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<p> In the affidavit, which cites 79 seperate sources, Sheehan
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said he learned of the "secret team" from a former U.S.
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intelligence officer who worked in Iran, a retired CIA officer,
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and a former Air Force officer.</p>
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<p> The intelligence officer discussed "the existence of a
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'secret team' of former high-ranking American CIA officials,
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former high-ranking U.S. military officials and Middle Eastern
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arms merchants--who also specialized in the performance of covert
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political assassinations of communists...(and) which carried on
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its own, independent, American foreign policy--regardless of the
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will of Congress,...the President,...or the (CIA)," the affidavit
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reads.</p>
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<p> The source said the "secret team" was set up in
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1977 under the supervision of Shackley and Cline, who were then
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with the CIA. Wilson worked with Gadhafi "to secretly train
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Libyan anti-Shah of Iran terrorists in the use of deadly C-4
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explosives," the affidavit reads. Wilson's real purpose was to
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gather intelligence on the anti-Shah terrorist missions, and then
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pass the information to Quintero, "who was responsible for the
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assassination of these Libyan terrorists,"</p>
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<p> Wilson was convicted for his dealings with Gadhafi, and
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Shackley and <span class="PERSON">Clines</span> resigned under pressure from then-CIA
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director Stansfield Turner. Shackley and <span class="PERSON">Clines</span> then join with
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Secord and Hakim and "went private" continuing to run their
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"secret team," the affidavit reads.</p>
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<p> This group--initially through the <span class="NORP">Egyptian</span>-American
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Transport and Service Company--was "responsible for the entire
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supply of weapons...to the Contras," when the CIA wasn't directly
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providing them. They began arming the contras in August 1979,
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after entering "into a formal contractual agreement with
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<span class="NORP">Nicaraguan</span> dictator Anastasio Somoza" despite President Carter's
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order banning the sending of weapons to Somoza, the affidavit
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reads.</p>
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<p> The CIA took over in 1981, but when the 1984 ban on U.S.
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support went into effect, <span class="PERSON">North</span> reactivated the private
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merchants. Quintero, operating through a Florida based
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corporation named Orca Supply Company--a company earlier set up
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by Edwin Wilson--saw to it that the supplies were delivered to
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the contras through John Hull, a U.S. citizen, who reportedly
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operates a contra base in northern Costa Rica on land he owns.
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Among the delivered weapons were the explosives used in the
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Pastor bombing, the CIA source said.</p>
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<p> To fund the contras, the "secret team" resorted to the
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foreign military sales scheme used in Iran in which military
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equipment is bought from the U.S. government at the
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manufacturer's cost and sold to Iran at replacement cost. The
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profits are then laundered through front companies.</p>
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<p> The Examiner reported in July that Secord, partners with
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Hakim in Standford Technology Trading Group International, was
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involved in the 1981 sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia, in which
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money from that sale financed the contra operation.</p>
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<p> In another report, the Examiner said the weapons were also
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financed by an elaborate cocaine ring involing Columbia's largest
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cocaine dealers in which the drug moves from <span class="GPE">Columbia</span>,
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through Hull's land, into the U.S at a level of one ton each
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week.</p>
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<p> When the Reagan Administration decided to undertake the
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secret sales of arms to Iran in 1985, it was Shackley, <span class="PERSON">Clines</span>,
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Hakim and Secord whom they used to carry out the mission, the
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affidavit reads.</p>
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<p>BACKGROUND</p>
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<p> In 1961, Shackley, a CIA station chief in Miami, and his
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deputy <span class="PERSON">Clines</span>, directed the covert war against Cuba. A special
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unit formed to assassinate Castro, supervised by the "Mafia
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Lieutenant Santo Trafficante," included Quintero--and Felix
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Rodreguez and Luis Pasada Carillo--two ex-CIA agent who
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reportedly operate the contras arms network at an El Salvador air
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base. Pasada was involved in the 1976 mid-air bombing
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of a <span class="NORP">Cuban</span> passenger airliner.</p>
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<p> After the covert war activists were caught smuggling narcotics
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into the U.S. from Cuba, the operation was shut down, and Shackley
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and <span class="PERSON">Clines</span> were transfered to Laos, where Shackley was made CIA
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Deputy Chief of Station and <span class="PERSON">Clines</span> continued as his deputy.</p>
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<p> According to the affidavit, Shackley and <span class="PERSON">Clines</span> directed a
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secret program which trained and used <span class="NORP">Meo</span> tribesmen "to
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secretly assassinated over 100000 non-combatant village mayors,
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book-keepers, clerks and other civilian bureaucrats in Laos,
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Cambodia and Thailand." The operation was funded by profits from
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an illegal opium trade.</p>
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<p> A commander the political assassination program was ret.
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Army General John Singlaub, who has said publicly that he is
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helping arm the contras. <span class="PERSON">North</span>, a Marine Corps Major at the time,
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was one of Singlaub's deputies. Also involved with Shackley in
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Laos was Secord, then an Air Force General, the affidavit
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reads.</p>
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<p> In 1971, Shackley and <span class="PERSON">Clines</span>, from their post the CIA's
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Western Hemisphere operations, directed the "Track II" operation
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in Chile which played a role in the assassination of Chilean
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President Salvador Allende, the affidavit reads.</p>
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<p> In 1974, the two directed the Phoenix project in Vietnam,
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which carried out the political assassination of some 60000 non-Viet Cong civilians in an attempt to cripple Vietnam's political
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institutions.</p>
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<p> "With their secret CIA anti-communist extermination program
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coming to a end,...(they) started their own private assassination
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business..."</p>
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<p> ) started their own private assassination
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