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To: AC Flyer who wrote (20757)	7/4/2002 4:13:16 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

>>And they liiiike it.<< especially so after Enron, Tyco, Worldcom ... (take the number and wait to be called). It's like paying a visit to your favourite, long-time, only bank to find your personal buddy, the accounts manager, ("trust me, I know what to do with your money") snorting the snow ("how does he pay for it?") off your monthly report paper, , with the behind of your favourite counter girl sticking from under his desk. And they liiiike it. dj

To: AC Flyer who wrote (20757)	7/5/2002 2:56:35 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

<Individuals all around the world, of their own free will, are buying US dollars. That's it. End of story. No stick-up, no thuggery, no crime committed. Why are they doing it? Because they like what they can do with US dollars better than what they can do with their own currency. That's it. Plain and simple. End of story.> Quite right ACF. It's odd that people don't understand that we aliens make decisions on where to invest [and live] according to what we think will do best for us. I'm one who still has a stack of US$. Uncle Al gives me a lot more confidence that those who criticize him, [who seem to me to lack understanding of what caused the dot.com and telecosmic irrational exuberance - they blame Uncle Al and can't understand that a bidding war requires NO increase in money supply]. QUALCOMM and Irwin Jacobs give me a lot more confidence that businesses I can invest in in New Zealand. Not all USA management is out to rob investors blind. Investors need to be discriminating about who they give their money to. Also, trees, sheep and real estate [typical NZ investment opportunities] are not as exciting and don't have the potential for dramatic rewards which phragmented photons, inverted quantum mechanics and CDNA do. The USA is the hub of the technological revolution and I like that. Mqurice

To: AC Flyer who wrote (20757)	7/5/2002 3:56:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

On the other hand, the USA has arrested a Kiwi citizen in the WAT who was going to do some simulator training in Florida. Apparently he didn't have a student visa but the FBI had approved his visit. The interesting point is that he is alleged to be a stepson of Saddam Hussein. The jumpy Americans were perhaps concerned that he might fly the simulator into the White House on 4 July. Or, more likely, they simply want as much intelligence as they can extract on the situation in Iraq surrounding Saddam and taking the Kiwi prisoner is a good way of having a quiet chat. With the USA preparing to invade Iraq and defeat Saddam Hussein, this is quite interesting. I just watched an interview of his prospective employer and he was obviously not on any covert operation on behalf of Saddam whose son, Uday, apparently murdered a go between bodyguard of Saddam's, who was instructed by Saddam to make arrangements with his object of feminine desire. Whose husband and father of said good Kiwi bloke at the time was a director an Iraqi airline [he no longer has that job]. Rumour has it that if Saddam takes a fancy to your wife, it is good that you think it a good idea that he take over husbandly duties. I imagine that the family of the said desired female would live in fear and repressed anger, depending on how said woman felt about the situation - I think women like their sons to remain in contact with them so the Good Kiwi Bloke being excommunicated in Hobbitville must be a source of some emotional activity. I suspect that William Shakespeare would enjoy the situation and would be able to write a script around it. I am not a fan club member of Bill's, so perhaps he's already done it. Anyway, habeas corpus and all that. Where is my compatriot, said Good Kiwi Bloke who is now held by USA federales and what is he charged with and will he be asked by the USA to lead a replacement of Saddam and Uday? I suspect he would prefer to return to his wife and Kiwi Kid to live peacefully and happily ever after. Kiwis are watching with interest. There is a NZ government election due in 3 weeks so the government will be taking a close interest in this situation. onenews.nzoom.com It's nice to see that NZ has an intelligent official. That's surprising and perhaps an idle boast. < New Zealand authorities are remaining tight-lipped about any role they might have played in alerting US authorities about a visit by the stepson of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. American immigration officials say New Zealand intelligent officials tipped them off about Mohammed Saffi's enrolment in a Florida flight school. Saffi, a New Zealand citizen who lives in Auckland, was arrested in Miami on a visa irregularity after enrolling in a Florida flight school used by one of the September 11 hijackers. "He's in custody on an immigration violation," Immigration and Naturalization Services spokesman Rodney Germain said on Thursday. "Our goal is to remove and repatriate him." Germain declined to speculate how long the deportation process might take. Saffi is being held at an immigration detention centre south of Miami....contd...> It should only take about an hour or two to deport him [flights to NZ are frequent]. But somehow, the process seems to have got stuck. With the LAX shooting, I suppose flights have been disrupted a bit and maybe that explains it. Or maybe it doesn't. How would you feel about the situation if your mother was 'invited' by Saddam to become mistress/spouse? I don't think I'd take kindly to it. I'm quite interested in human rights and freedom and not just for Americans, who don't want to be held liable for war crimes or crimes against humanity. I like the USA Declaration of Independence and all that created equal stuff, which isn't held in high esteem in the USA it seems. My US$ are liquid. The War Against Microsoft, WAT, WA steel imports, WA farm imports, WA lumber imports, WA Kiwi lamb and so on are NOT increasing my confidence. I have taken a couple of steps out of the USA with my US$ currently sitting at my local bank with a sale possible with 5 minutes notice. We alien international investors are very jumpy people. We do not like being taken hostage. Which is why India and China do NOT get our money [other than via judicious investment via QUALCOMM which is in a position to manage the investments a bit better]. Mqurice PS: More detail on the Saddam link....http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2050461&thesection=news&thesubsection=general [there are no closer simulators for the aircraft type involved.]

To: AC Flyer who wrote (20757)	7/5/2002 4:29:09 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

More on Saffi's arrest in the USA: sun-sentinel.com <“They have the right to ask any time they want. I don’t have a problem at all,” Saffi was quoted as saying. “I think they went and asked all the people who work in aviation all over the world.” Saffi is the son of Samira Shahbandar, Saddam Hussein’s former mistress whom he later married, the newspaper reported. Nor Al-din Saffi, Saffi’s father, was a high-ranking official within the government-owned Iraqi Airways, the newspaper said. An official from the Iraqi National Congress, a Washington-based opposition group, told the New Zealand newspaper that “basically, Saddam made [Samira] divorce her husband and marry him, which is something I don't think any kid would appreciate,” the official said. “[Nor Aldin Saffi] was rewarded by being given a post within the airways.” Uday Hussein, Saddam Hussein's eldest son with his first wife, was reportedly enraged when he found out about the affair. The Middle East Review of International Affairs said Uday murdered a bodyguard of Hussein because he had acted as a messenger between Hussein and his mistress. The Washington Post reported that when Hussein’s father-in-law objected to the marriage with Shahbandar he was stripped of his property. Other dissenting family and friends were wounded or died mysteriously. Goldman said while there is no indication of wrongdoing on the part of Saffi besides the immigration violation, it certainly raised suspicions. “The good news is that he is in custody.”> Huh? Why is it good news that he's in custody? USA intelligence agencies are not showing a lot of it with such comments. The Florida training school will have to set up an offshore simulator training business because their customers get arrested for making a mistake on what kind of visa is required. Richard Bliss [a QUALCOMM employee] was arrested by the Russians for similar reasons and there was a hue and cry over it. He took some GPS equipment to Russia when he was involved in a CDMA network project, and he thought the paperwork was in order, though it wasn't. The Russians, like the Americans in this instance, figured they had caught a spy or something [which perhaps entitles them to bonus payments in their performance reviews]. They kept him in prison for a few weeks while Clinton, Albright and co leaned on the Russians to let him go. Are people in the USA guilty of crimes because they are related by marriage to somebody who is a ring-leader in the Matrix of Malevolence? I'd have thought the USA could simply issue Saffi with a student visa, if that's what was needed, when he arrived at LAX. I guess I'd better sell my US$ and US shares before they confiscate all US$ and property held by aliens. Well, I don't want to be too hasty, but I'm keeping my trigger-finger close to the mouse. I wouldn't want to be last out if the USA goes nuts. There are some un-nerving trends. Mqurice