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sportinlife:
So does this mean that Uday Hussein isn't really dead and is training the Springbok's under a new identity?
Close. From the ABC article, which cites the
Sunday Times of Jo'burg (heart of the Rand) as its source:
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The paper said the camp was the brainchild of a security consultant, Adriaan Heijns, who recruited former members of the South African police's elite Task Force unit to run the camp.
For those who've forgotten (or are too young to remember) the apartheid era, the South African police were chock full of members and sympathizers of the Broderbund and other Klanlike Afrikaner supremacist groups. Their brutality was notorious (the scenes in movies like
Cry Freedom and
The Power of One were heavily sanitized to maintain R ratings). Just like the old KGB, the goons had to go somewhere. eek!
[ November 19, 2003, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: danimal ]