| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Gweedo |
| Date: | Thu, 13 Mar 1997 01:30:51 +0000 |
+++++Include trideo: Channel 74 News
K: Kathryn Allfrey, Channel 74
T: LCdr Robert Tarkington, UCAS Navy
<The interview appears to be taking place via satellite link. Tarkington
- better known to his friends as The Horny Toad - actually looks
respectable, even dashing, in his Navy whites.>
K: And, following on from our earlier item; live from Washington D.C. we
have Lieutenant-Commander Tarkington, an intelligence administrator
with the Strategic Intelligence Gathering Agency.
Commander, we're very grateful that you agreed to speak with us at
such short notice. It's been alleged that one of SIGA's agents
murdered a UCAS citizen, committed a number of crimes subsequently
blamed on 'Thunda', and threatened another citizen with death. At
risk of cliche, any comment?
T: Certainly, Kathryn. What we have here is a misunderstanding. The
consultant in question is a specialist in corporate, international
and insurgent conflict: a lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve with
considerable training and expertise. So, when the FBI found
themselves up against a deranged former SEAL, it naturally made sense
to second our consultant to them. That's our function: we provide
expertise and analysis to other Governmental agencies.
K: So the hunt for Thunda was not a SIGA-led operation?
T: Not even slightly. At Thunda's last stand, in the gun battle where he
was killed, I believe over two hundred Lone Star officers and nearly
a hundred FBI agents were involved: there were a total of four SIGA
agents present, all under the command of the FBI agent-in-charge.
Given the firepower Thunda's men possessed, and the casualties they
inflicted - over a hundred law enforcers were killed or wounded in
that battle - having agents with expertise in that level of conflict
present seemed to be a prudent decision. We're confident it saved
lives.
K: What of the claims that Thunda was not responsible for the crimes he
was hunted for, that in fact your Agency was behind them?
T: Apart from that being a very offensive remark, the question has to be
asked: why? What could we possibly gain by killing hundreds of the
innocent people we swore to protect? Many of us at SIGA are seconded
from the military, we'd be doubly violating the oaths we took by such
an action.
I'd dearly like Mr Abrahams to produce some credible evidence for
that remark. I'm also quite confident that he will not: he should,
though, consult a lawyer. A suit for defamation is being considered:
it's a little unfair that law enforcers should risk their lives in
order to face this level of abuse.
K: There remains the matter of Lieutenant Lynch's death threat to Mr
Abraham.
T: And here I must apologise on his behalf. Lieutenant Lynch saw at
first hand Thunda's atrocities. Many have seen the photographs or the
trideo of shrouded, bloodied stretchers being carried from shattered
buildings. Lynch had to see, breathe, feel the carnage, hunting for
the evidence to prevent the next crime. He responded to someone who
endorsed those crimes, praised their perpetrator, and accused the men
who ended those crimes of being terrorists themselves.
The message he replied to, in full, read:
"Thunda might be dead, but the just cause he fought for will never
die. We will always remember the martyr who was assassinated by
federal terrorists!" -- Abraham
Later on - closing the post where he placed your interview with him
on a criminal BBS - Mr Abraham said:
"The ideas of Thunda still live! Thunda was a martyr!" -- Abraham
The Lieutenant stated that if Abraham chose to fight for Thunda's
ideals, he would meet the same fate as Thunda: that bombing
hospitals, murdering children, killing innocent civilians at random
would lead to the same cycle of pursuit and apprehension - or in
Thunda's case death. He did so in an unfortunately direct manner,
which Mr Abraham misinterpreted and for which we unreservedly
apologise. The Lieutenant is a Marine, and not given to either
subtlety or cold-blooded murder.
K: So, provided he remains within the law, Mr Abraham is safe?
L: Until he breaks the law he's entirely safe from us. Thunda made many
enemies, and I'd urge Mr Abraham to seek protection: partly because
if someone who lost family or friends to Thunda kills him in revenge,
we'll surely be blamed for it.
K: Commander Tarkington, of SIGA, thank you and goodnight.
+++++end trideo
Oh, yeah, Abraham, we mean it about the security. Thunda killed a hell
of a lot of people, and that means lots of really angry relatives and
friends, many of them armed, who now want to re-educate you. I'd find a
deep hole and crawl into it for a while.
Until you get called as a defendant, that is. The Boss means it about
the defamation case.]<<<<<
-- The Horny Toad <Furry:Fighting:Felines/Rule-The-Skies>
