hahaha I like it. But even rogue elements need some decent financial backing.

i don’t think that solution would work: the hydar is too well connected, has too many tentalces, and would simply go black. I have another proposition for you:

with apologies in advance to Kevin:

“Kurtz’s patrols in the highlands coming under frequent ambush. The camp started falling apart…November: Kurtz orders the assassination of three Vietnamese men and one woman. Two of the men were Colonels in the South Vietnamese army. Enemy activity in his old sector dropped off to nothing. Guess he must have hit the right four people. The army tried one last time to bring him back into the fold. And if he pulled over, it all would have been forgotten. But he kept going, and he kept winning it his way, and they called
me in. They lost him. He was gone. Nothing but rumors and rambling intelligence, mostly from captured VC. The VC knew his name by now, and they were scared of him. He and his men were playing hit and run all the way into Cambodia.”

– apocalypse now

cybele

yeah. What we need is an extremely wealthy White Hat Person who Gives a Shit (hellooooo, Dano5050 — this would be along the lines of your penchant for “signing up for big challenges,” no?) who can hire his or her own dedicated research group, infiltrators, and child rescue squads, Delta Force-type, to take these scum the fuck down.

Thanks for the links, pookie. That’s got to be some of the most depressing material I’ve read in a couple years.

It’s stuff like that which makes me think that a planetary-scale cataclysm wouldn’t be entirely bad. Makes you lose your faith in humanity.

http://www.isgp.eu/dutroux/Bel.....affair.htm

http://www.isgp.eu/dutroux_and.....Nebula.htm