more on The Crazy Rulers of the World

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Claudio Gutierrez <gutierrezclaudio () terra cl>
Date: November 7, 2004 12:27:44 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] The Crazy Rulers of the World

the series is based on Jon Ronson (http://www.jonronson.com/index.html) 
next-to-be-published book "The Men Who Stare At Goats". From the 
synopsis:

"In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within 
the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, 
the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the 
cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most 
chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with 
defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth 
Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back 
and fighting the War on Terror"

Extracts of the book can be read at The Guardian
*The road to Abu Ghraib*
" http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1337954,00.html  (October 
30)

*Guantánamo Serenade*
http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1343776,00.html 
(November 6)


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