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North Korea | North Korean defectors are shedding light on dark human rights abuses in their native land—and some are telling of the light they found
Timothy Kang remembers those boots because they met his face as the guards kicked and stomped on him over and over. The guards used wooden square paddles to beat him, too, after their own knuckles and palms started to bruise. He was dragged to 15 different jails and tortured in each one.
His crime? Crossing the border into North Korea during a trip to evangelize his native land. He was lucky: Since he was underage, he narrowly avoided the more severe political prison camp.
Now a bespectacled, lanky, 27-year-old student in Seoul, Kang was one of over 300 witnesses comprising former citizens, prisoners, defected military guards, and officials who described such inhumane treatments to a United Nations panel last year. About 80 North Koreans took the stand at public hearings in Seoul, Tokyo, London, and Washington, D.C., while others testified privately, fearing retribution against family members back home. Most showed little emotion. Others flowed tears, choked on words, and gnashed teeth.
The public testimonies were the most visceral part of the UN's first major investigation into human rights abuses in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a yearlong undertaking conducted by a three-member "Commission of Inquiry" formed by the Human Rights Council last March. It's an operation many defectors and human rights experts say is "long overdue" but commend as a major progress toward justice. The resulting report—a 372-page catalog that describes atrocities such as beatings, starvation, exposure to cold, various torture techniques, rape, infanticide, and public executions—is unprecedented in its forceful language and extensiveness. More significantly, it directly calls out the main perpetrators: the leaders of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, the National Defense Commission, and current dictator Kim Jong Un.
What's chilling, however, is that even as the UN commission presents this report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 17, millions more North Koreans are still suffering under a regime that, with brazen impunity, defiles every dignity deserving to humankind—including the basic right to seek and worship God. Incriminating evidence and eyewitness testimonies have been trickling out of North Korea for the past decade, but until this UN report, there has been weak effort on an international level to bring the criminals to justice. Even more chilling: With North Korea's latest test firing of short-range missiles last month, the regime remains unbowed to lesser forms of international pressure—and determined to overlook the human rights indictment now publicly against it.
The North Korean government's long-standing, systemized oppression of human rights and freedoms, which many human rights activists call "the worst human tragedy in the world," are now exposed on an international stage. And now, someone must act, because as commission chair Michael Kirby publicly stated, "We cannot say we didn't know. We now do know." But someone has already been consistently acting, as some of the following stories will show—someone whom the regime has despised and feared ever since it existed.
NORTH KOREA FREEDOM COALITION CHAIRMAN Suzanne Scholte, who hosted the first U.S. public hearing for North Korean defectors in 1997, said people back then could hardly believe the Nazi-like tales of torture and gulags. Previously, it had been difficult to conduct an accurate investigation in North Korea, which refused—and still refuses—to open its doors to the outside world. But today, tens of thousands of defectors have corroborated each other's details. Some realized after leaving North Korea that they'd been fed lies their whole lives. Some met Christianity for the first time.
Timothy Kang had both a political and spiritual "turning point." Kang grew up the way the majority of younger North Korean citizens did: without any of the benefits the privileged class enjoyed, without any recollection of the heyday of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or its "Supreme Leader" Kim Il Sung. Instead, he grew up during the mid-1990s nationwide food shortage that left millions dead and thousands of children orphaned—the result of government redistribution of food according to political class status. Kang watched neighbors die, passed raggedy orphans in the streets, and ferreted grass and roots to fill his ulcerous belly. One dominant feeling suffocates his childhood memories: the throbbing gnaw of hunger. Deep down, he realized "something is wrong with the regime." Christianity gave him the ability to articulate what that "something" was.
Like many others, Kang crossed the Tumen River into bordering China to flee starvation as an adolescent (see "The other side of failure," Dec. 14, 2013). He received assistance from missionaries and Christian relatives: His uncle was a pastor, his uncle's grandmother an elder. The grandmother woke up every dawn without fail to attend church for morning prayer service. Kang took her hand and followed. "I just went to church for the sake of it," he recalls. "I didn't really understand the gospel of Christ."
As he hopped from shelter to shelter, a Bible was always present in the house. Cooped up for days and weeks inside, it was oftentimes just Kang and the Bible. He would flip through the riveting book and read—and read, and read. As he understood the text and felt the missionaries' tangible care, his eyes opened: He realized what the gospel and "true love" were.
His understandings shattered every brainwashing he underwent as a child: state-owned radio blaring songs praising the nation's "Eternal President" and "Dear Leader" Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and state-owned television programs condemning South Korea and the United States as "monsters." He remembers films demonizing Christian missionaries as "a product of capitalism" and condemning Christianity as "a drug, narcotics, the sin to society." Kang's interactions with Christians in China shook all the falsehood out of North Korean propaganda. He realized North Korea may preach "freedom of religion" in its constitution, but in reality, "the purpose is to praise and idolize Kim Il Sung as the only god," he said.
Kang decided to take the truth back to his people, but he was caught in North Korea and sent to labor camp. There, Kang saw fellow prisoners hunched in cells like "skeletons barely covered with skin," feebly squashing the lice that crawled over them. Breakfast was about five spoonfuls worth of mushy rice smashed with 150 beans—an unseasoned, meatless lump called gadabap, bloated with water into a pasty slurry. Kang was forced to work 17 hours of hard labor daily. He watched several inmates die within two months from exhaustion and starvation, then watched their corpses being carried away to be dumped over a hillside.
"There is no way to express what I suffered," Kang told UN investigators of his time at the North Korean detention center, or bowigwa, bluntly describing it as "living hell."
ONE OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE for keeping the prisons a living hell was Ahn Myong Chul, a military guard at detention and political camps for seven years, who also testified before the UN. Using satellite images, he described the layout of various camps where he had worked: the electric fence around the perimeter, the main detention center, the solitary cells reserved for torture, the village where bowibu (national security) agents and guards lived, and the sleeping area for inmates. "The village of bowibu agents is heaven, and those inhabited by the inmates is hell," he said.
All guards undergo a six-month-long training session drilling into them the belief that inmates—many whose families were accused of disloyalty to the regime—are traitors. Instructors will say, "Never listen to their request! Don't sympathize with them! If they try to escape, shoot!" Martial arts instructors lined inmates up as human punching bags. Ahn himself "practiced kicks and hits" on an inmate until he collapsed, a fact Ahn is now "ashamed to admit," but credits to the indoctrination all trainees receive: "I believed truly that the inmates were bad people."
Most of the prisoners don't make it out of camp. "They're never meant to be released," Ahn said. Those sentenced for life face a bleak future of hard labor until they die of exhaustion, malnutrition, disease, abuse, or execution. One October, 200 inmates died from contagious disease caught by eating field rats.
Ahn also detailed grotesque scenes of abortion and infanticide. During his second year, a leader of his platoon raped and impregnated a female inmate. After the woman gave birth to a baby in the field, she and the baby were locked in a detention house. The father was identified, but committed suicide rather than face disgrace. The woman disappeared, presumably killed or sent to labor camp. The newborn was dumped into a pot and fed to military dogs.
As the person responsible for driving soldiers to the execution site, Ahn witnessed up to 20 executions a year. Although only three shooters typically perform the execution, an entire team marches out with dogs and 128 bullets loaded into their guns: Inmates are weak and underfed, yet guards constantly worry over the possibility of a revolt and international exposure. In such cases, Ahn's orders were to "shoot them … to wipe them out so that there is no evidence of inmates."
The prison camp situation has only grown worse since Kim Jong Un succeeded his father in December 2011. Greg Scarlatoiu, the executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea in Washington, D.C., said the Kim regime has cracked down harder on attempted defectors: North Koreans who escaped to South Korea in 2013 dropped by half the previous year's number. The latest estimate of prison camp population may have decreased from 150,000 to 120,000, but that's "not because the overall human rights situation has improved, but because of the astoundingly high rates of deaths in detention," Scarlatoiu said.
ONE WAY THE KIM REGIME exerts control over the population is by starvation—a recurring theme among escapees. The government controls markets and distributes food according to a class-based system called songbun, in which people are divided according to party loyalty and family associations. While its citizenry starved and died in the '90s, the government refused to swerve from its "inefficient economic production and discriminatory resource allocation," stated the UN report, despite opportunities to do so. When other nations provided humanitarian food aid, the Kim regime diverted the food to top officials and military, even storing the excess away. Escapee Jo Jin Hye, 26, told UN investigators it's incomprehensible how North Korean officials drive BMWs and drink "exotic" whiskeys "while there are all kinds of kids dying of starvation."
Jo remembers hunger well—hunger that made her head spin as a young girl. Growing up in a poor family in North Hamgyong Province, her family was among those hit hardest by the famine. Her teenage sister and father disappeared on trips to find food—the sister apparently sex-trafficked to China, the father killed in prison for crossing borders. A fellow prisoner later said he'd been tortured and starved to death.
When Jo's baby brother was born, her mother was so malnourished she couldn't lactate. Jo's family begged other women in town for milk, but the women drove them away with a broomstick. The baby withered away in 10-year-old Jo's arms.
Jo, her mother, and sister soon slipped into China for food. They found food, and Jo found Christianity. One night, feeling overwhelmed by her life's hardships, Jo cried while leading goats to a watering place. On the road she heard music and singing trilling from a house. Curious, she peeked inside: A man was playing a piano while another sang. Jo, overcome by the beauty of the music, crumpled to the ground and sobbed. An old woman invited her in. "Don't be afraid," she told her. "This is where the wounded and weary gather."
Jo attended this small church of chosunjok people (ethnic Koreans in China) for several months until her mother found out. Christians are cruel Westerners, her mother warned her. She related a North Korean textbook story of how an American missionary in Pyongyang once beat a kid with a branch for eating from his apple tree. But Jo thought, "All they do is share Bible messages and sing praise. What's so bad about that?" She ultimately returned to the church, where she read the Bible and learned to pray.
Later, prayer sustained Jo when Chinese authorities repatriated her to North Korea, where prison guards beat, kicked, and slapped her, pulled her hair, and whipped her back with wires. Jo told WORLD she was close to execution—for repeated defection, helping other defectors, and interacting with Christians—but escaped death because of prayer: "I was between life and death—what had I to lose? I had no fear or doubts, I just prayed. I prayed with 100 percent assurance that God will answer my prayers, and God answered them all." The ultimate answer: A Korean-American pastor she befriended in China, through donations from American churches, pooled a $10,000 bribe to help free Jo.
Today, the three women live in Virginia. Jo's mother, now a deacon, regularly listens to Christian sermons while she makes kimchee (traditional pickled cabbage) and cleans the house. Meanwhile, Jo feels her own faith has dwindled as she got "a little too comfortable" with her religious liberties in America. It's a vastly different spiritual landscape in North Korea, where "just by professing your faith, you can get killed. … You're putting your life at risk by becoming a Christian."
PREDICTABLY, THE NORTH KOREAN government has denied the testimonies of Kang, Ahn, Jo, and hundreds of others. It repeatedly ignored the UN commission's letters requesting entry to North Korea, and called the testimonies a "charade" performed by "human scum."
In its report, the commission called for North Korea to dismantle all camps and release its prisoners. It recommended the UN Security Council use the report to formally prosecute North Korean officials with "crimes against humanity" before the International Criminal Court. The commission also urged the international community (especially China) to grant asylum to North Koreans fleeing their country.
All these recommendations are unlikely to happen: China, one of five veto-wielding UN Security Council members, calls North Koreans illegal "economic migrants," not refugees, and aggressively repatriates them. China even denies that defectors face punishment upon return.
"If China vetoes this, then they have to be held to account," said Stuart Windsor, a spokesman for U.K.-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide, one of the earliest advocates for the UN investigation. He said the report means the entire international community is responsible to act: "The evidence is damning."
Jo said the UN report won't change things in North Korea, at least on the top level because "they're like gangsters, mobsters," but she believes a shift is happening within her people, especially through the underground churches. But it won't be easy, she added, because the North Korean philosophy of Juche—an ideology that man has ultimate control over the world and his own destiny—leaves no room for God: "Kim Il Sung took the place of God, and Kim Jong Il took the seat of Jesus."
Kang said the Kim regime fears Christianity because "in church, we talk about truth … but everything is a lie in North Korea." Change is happening in North Korea on multiple levels, but he believes "50 percent of change will come from religion. You cannot dismiss the power of religion."
Although Pyongyang now has four state-approved "Christian" churches, defectors call them "fake." Out of sight, about 230 underground churches exist in North Korea, according to an estimate by Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Perhaps North Korea isn't so dark after all.
Kang said he still thinks about the hyungs (older brothers) he met in China, who also voluntarily returned to North Korea to evangelize. He has not heard from them for a while, but he still has hope that their sacrifice will bear fruit: "I'm praying for those who are in North Korea spreading the words of gospel."
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When UN-commissioned investigators present their report of North Korea's crimes against humanity in Geneva this month, they'll be competing for attention. After four days of dignitary speeches, experts will present over 100 reports during the month-long annual session of the UN Human Rights Council. Weighty subjects will come after lighter ones, such as the human rights of a "sustainable environment" and "adequate housing"—indicators of an ever-expanding definition of "rights" beyond life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Critics point out the summit's hypocritical element: In addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, the Human Rights Council's 47 members include nations (like Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Russia, and Vietnam) that restrict religious liberties and free speech, control family size, or jail political dissidents. Says Ann Buwalda of the Jubilee Campaign, a group fighting religious oppression and trafficking, "The fox is in charge of the henhouse."
Human Rights Council highlights
March 2 Opening day
March 10 Human rights obligations for a "safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment"
March 11 Freedom of religion and "religious hatred"
March 12 Child trafficking, prostitution, and pornography
March 13 Challenges of abolishing the death penalty
March 14 The rights of ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities
March 17 Human rights abuses in North Korea
March 18 Human rights abuses during Syria's civil war
March 24 Israeli settlements and human rights in the Palestinian territories
March 25 Sexual violence in Congo; racial discrimination and "xenophobia"
March 26 Human rights in Afghanistan
Child of the gulag
Sitting before United Nations officials, Shin Dong-hyuk holds up his right hand: His middle finger is missing above the first knuckle. A North Korean prison camp official cut it off with a knife as a punishment for dropping a sewing machine, he explains. Oddly, Shin remembers feeling gratitude. "I thought my wrist was going to be cut off, but it was just a finger."
Shin's finger and the burn scars on his back are evidence of two dozen years of cruelty in North Korea's Camp 14. Shin, 31, is the only known escapee born inside a North Korean political prison camp. His testimony—including his 2012 book Escape from Camp 14, co-written with Blaine Harden—has enlightened the world to conditions inside North Korea's gulags.
Born to two inmates, Shin grew up in the 31-mile-wide Camp 14 surrounded by electric fences and snowy mountains, stained with the political crimes of his relatives. He and other children were so hungry they caught mice and snakes and picked grains from the floor. They had to ask permission from a guard to eat them or risk a severe beating.
His father may still be alive in the camp. His mother was hanged and his brother shot after 13-year-old Shin tipped off a night guard to their escape plans. From childhood, he had been brainwashed to believe snitching on other prisoners was honorable, a path to food rewards.
Instead, the guard took credit for Shin's tip and left the boy to be tortured by interrogators: "I was chained and hanged upside down. And they lit a little bit of fire from coal. … They burned my back with that … for two to three days."
Shin only gained courage to escape when a new prisoner told him stories of the outside world—especially descriptions of grilled meat. In January 2005, the two prisoners made a break for a fence. The other inmate was electrocuted, but Shin wriggled through the wires, ran down a hill, and eventually found his way to China.
Wearing a crisp dark suit and cuff links when I met him last year, Shin has adjusted to physical comforts, but not psychological ones: Camp 14 returns in his dreams. He feels deep shame about his role in his mother's and brother's deaths. Growing up, he never learned the affection normally associated with family: Life was a survival competition.
Camp couldn't snuff out everything, though: When I asked his biggest wish, Shin said, "To meet my father." —D.J.D.


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Yellow (CC) - 1 oz, 72 yd (28 g, 65 m);
Hat: Yellow (MC) - 2 oz, 144 yd (56 g, 130 m);
White (CC) - ¼ oz, 18 yd (7 g, 17 m);
Booties: Yellow (MC) - 1 oz, 72 yd (28 g, 65 m);
White (CC) - ½ oz, 36 yd (14 g, 33 m);
Roses: Dark Pink (DP) - 2/3 oz, 41 yd (9 g, 37 m);
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Blue (B) - 2/3 oz, 41 yd (9 g, 37 m);
Green (G) - 1 ¾ oz, 109 yd (49 g, 98 m);
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2002 SEMA - Bigger than ExpectedWritten by on June 28, 2002 Contributors: Cameron Evans Unprecedented Coverage of the SEMA Show from Las Vegas
Financial doom and gloom dominated the headlines before we headed to the biggest industry trade show for those seeking all things vehicle related to make you go fast and look good doing it. Would the country's imminent recession pull the performance parts business into the tank? If the Specialty Equipment and Market Association (SEMA) Show is any kind of indicator, things are looking good! It's still going to be a tough 2002, but the collective attitude was positive.
Nearly 70,000 people attended the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week (AAIW) activities, which includes both the SEMA show at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) at the Sands Convention Center. SEMA had more than 1,200 companies exhibiting over an awesome 625,000 square feet!
Surely, folks will be closely watching their wallets, but when the going gets tough, the tough go racing! We saw numerous companies with record numbers of new parts on display. The wheel and tire companies again dominated the giant trade-only show where PHR staffers and major mail-order houses seek out what's hot and what's not, but there was some news there, too. These days, SUV applications get the first fitments when it comes to new styles. However, we saw all sorts of technologies debuted last year in the 17-inch fitments that the consumers are demanding.
The original equipment manufacturers, otherwise known as the Big Three from Detroit, had mixed offerings this year. With the demise of the Camaro and Firebird, only C5 Corvettes were on hand for serious GM performance enthusiasts. Yes, there were what seemed like a dozen Cavalier drag cars and tuner rides on display in the GM corporate booth, but the actual product that you can buy doesn't come close to resembling the amazing (read expensive) special projects on the floor. One couldn't mistake GM's desire to attract attention in the small-car market, even if they don't have the small cars to back it up.
Ford had a few cool Mustangs, but not much else to offer for the traditional performance fans. DaimlerChrysler showed off a few fun concepts, like a PT Cruiser with a Hemi between the framerails, and a hardtop Prowler, but without a rear-drive ride for the masses, there wasn't much to offer.
These new car disappointments shouldn't be construed as a lack of effort in terms of performance parts; however, as all the Big Three still care that their customers are satisfied and showed it with new engines, kits, and parts.
The brake industry has continued to blossom, with new fitments and new companies entering the marketplace. The cooperation and communication between wheel manufacturers and brake suppliers has never been better, witnessed by larger-diameter wheels designed to fit around rotor and pad upgrades that utilize the same caliper.
We could go for pages and pages, showing the cool stuff that we saw. So, we will! Enjoy and keep your chin up, enthusiasts, the performance industry is working hard, too.
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Tony Bartone and his bad-ass buddies made the tow all the way from Long Island, New York, to Las Vegas to run their A-Fuel car at LVMS and to debut the '69 Camaro that we've all been waiting for. Yes, the 705-inch aluminum Merlin from our Feb. '00 cover is stuffed in the framerailsTroy Trepanier showed off his latest customer buildup as a guest of Popular Hot Rodding and PRIMEDIA. Look for this incredible '62 Cadillac, owned by Randy Wilcox, in an upcoming issue of PHR and you just won't believe the paint!Engine stuff was big, too. Chevy enthusiasts, who know about engines, fear the latest Magnum motors from Mopar, as they know these powerplants are an incredible value for the power they make. Mopar showed off this new 360 Magnum that finally has aluminum cylinder heads.You've seen Nitto tires explode on the rodding scene thanks to their specialized fitments for musclecars, providing taller sidewalls in the bigger diameters so popular these days. They've taken it one step further by stretching their drag racing line beyond the popular 555-R drag radial to an all-out bias ply drag slick! There's Tomo and Conrad, looking proud and justifiably so, as this is not an easy feat to accomplish when you're used to building completely different styles of tires. Look for this one in a 15-inch diameter, 16 inches wide and 33 inches tall once it gets through testing.Now, this is an import that we can deal with! What a better way to show off plus sizing than on a vehicle that's never seen an automotive wheel? We need this setup for ATV Off Road Fury for PlayStation 2!Tool freaks will love this new digital inclinometer from Webb USA. Called the Inclo-Matic (PN 675-05), the tool allows reference checking of suspension angles and setting of pinion angle without having to touch any mechanical parts on the car. The laser alignment ensures straight lines, and the digital readout makes quick references a snap.The 5.0 Mustang is still a great performance car, especially for those on a budget. Upgrading to beefier polyurethane motor mounts is often accompanied by a transmission mount upgrade, so Energy Suspension has chosen to sell the motor and transmission mounts as a package. It'll fit all '84-95 5.0-urged ponies.Vintage Air's new "Front Runner" engine drive system ends the search for the right pulleys. The block-mounted drive setup allows for tight accessory packaging and the convenience of a single serpentine belt. Check with Vintage Air for prices and applications.Nitrous Express showed off its Rich/Lean Safety Sensor, a trick little device in SEMA's hot new product displays. This "next generation" safety device monitors your Air/Fuel ratio and automatically disengages your nitrous system when the mix gets dangerously lean. With its adjustable parameters, this smart piece should save a lot of parts and time for both racers and enthusiasts.
Are you a TPI kind of guy? Do you think the industry has forgotten you? Think twice. K&N unveiled a Tuned-Port Injection Hot Rod kit, for folks with both stock road cars and hot rods that will take a TPI engine swap. It'll certainly make more power by relocating the air intake and by increasing the overall air capacity.The OER line of products, available from Classic Industries and elsewhere, keeps growing, and the latest additions are sure to go over well with restorers and enthusiasts alike. A complete, new dash for '69 Camaros can now be had, and it looks as good as any original we've seen. If yours has been cut up or cracked after years of use, this one part can now replace the entire dash.Competition Engineering must have noticed the need for ultra-serious swaybars (similar to the stuff that Mark Stielow built for "The Mule" Camaro right here in PHR) and have answered the call with a universal antiroll bar kit (PN C2041). The beefy links and splined design allow fabricators to install this bar under almost any car or truck, and any doubts about its strength should be put to rest after getting a look at the links. The fully adjustable unit could improve the handling of just about anything!


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Caughey-Thomas Mobility
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With an increase in the parallel component of the applied field, carriers can gain energies above the ambient thermal energy and be able to transfer energy gained by the field to the lattice by optical phonon emission. The latter effect leads to a saturation of the carriers mobility. The Caughey Thomas mobility model adds high field velocity scattering to an existing mobility model (or to a constant input mobility).
This model demonstrates how to use the Caughey-Thomas high field saturation model for the electron and hole mobility. Field dependent mobility makes a problem which is already highly non-linear even more non-linear. It is necessary to use the continuation study extension to obtain convergence in the high field limit.


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This week, Barney the purple dinosaur is in the UAE. But, while children will be delighted at the chance to see the TV character perform, there'll also be tears because not every parent will be able to get hold of the "very limited number" of "VIP" (AED 750/£125) and "VVIP" (AED 1,000/£167) tickets that will buy their tiny tots a chance to meet and be photographed with Barney after the show.
However, while I'm positive that all those VVIP tickets will be snapped up – because the UAE is what it is – I do hope there are some parents who hold back despite being able to afford all of them simply because they're trying to bring up children who don't have ridiculous expectations of life.
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Natural Selection 2 News Update - NS2 closed beta released...and how we got here
Flayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds EntertainmentSan Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Posts: 6,912Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer admin
Please post comments on the topic Natural Selection 2 News Update - NS2 closed beta released...and how we got here here
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whoppaXXL Join Date: 2006-11-03 Member: 58298Posts: 711Members, Reinforced - Shadow Auto VerifiedAlways on your Side, UWE.
I almost cried tears of Joy today, because i could join a Game AND kill things. The Gameplay is awesome and i wish you all the best Guys. You deserve it."I got in one little fight and my com got scared, he said you're moving with your squad to the ###### hive."
Shatner's Bassoon Join Date: 2010-11-18 Member: 74999Posts: 12Members
w0dk4 Join Date: 2008-04-22 Member: 64129Posts: 351Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow Auto VerifiedLove the honesty!
Sad to hear this, however:QUOTESpeaking for myself, if I knew how much work this was going to be, I may not have done it. Yet here we are and here you are.
Now, if you fix the memory leak on the server, I think you can safely go into a well deserved vacation for a week or twoArmoryChamber.net [ConstellationSlots/AdvancedBalance]
Commie Spy Join Date: 2009-07-02 Member: 68008Posts: 92Membershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOi0q7UdHck
and go VOTE!!! more players = more money = better game!
ilu uweQUOTE (Ryo-Ohki @ Aug 1 2010, 01:20 AM) »Now, the commander can, and infact only can, build his own structures. Marines can now upgrade their own weapons. The result is that in effect, the Commander and the Marines are now playing two seperate games. Synergy has been replaced with disunity. If Commanders don't need their Marines as much, they won't communicate with them as much, and vice versa.
perfectheat Join Date: 2007-06-28 Member: 61405Posts: 79Members
SatanLovesYOu Join Date: 2004-05-03 Member: 28410Posts: 85Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Bloodhouse Join Date: 2010-07-14 Member: 72369Posts: 62MembersRock stars.
Can't wait to play it after work. Now have a beer for god's sake!"...sometimes science stinks. It's the game we play, baby."
-Orlando Jones, Evolution.
Wavesonics Join Date: 2006-12-02 Member: 58833Posts: 89Members
trinity.ns Join Date: 2008-12-07 Member: 65688Posts: 136Members, Reinforced - Shadow Auto Verified
Jibrail Join Date: 2009-04-16 Member: 67200Posts: 867Members Auto Verifiedcongrats on this big milestone, keep up the good work and good luck
GET THIS VIDEO TO GAMETRAILERS.COM that should give you at least thousnds in views and get the beta out there!
Typhon Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1899Posts: 1,597MembersI'm really happy that all the doom and gloom that ns2 was not ready for beta status (mine included) was quite thoroughly stomped by 155. You guys have made enormous improvements in the past couple of weeks and I'm sure that the light at the end of the tunnel is visible now. Keep up the great work!Post edited by Unknown User onCounting bodies like sheep
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jamieshepherd Join Date: 2009-09-04 Member: 68693Posts: 71MembersJust out of curiosity, why don't you offer constellation anymore? I see loads of new faces around that would surely donate if possible, including myself. I bought the SE but if it means donating $5 to make sure the finished game I paid $40 for isn't rushed and ######, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one that would...Jamie Shepherd (http://about.me/jamieshepherd)
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Rehnquist Join Date: 2009-09-01 Member: 68672Posts: 135MembersQUOTE (jamieshepherd @ Nov 19 2010, 11:59 AM) »Just out of curiosity, why don't you offer constellation anymore? I see loads of new faces around that would surely donate if possible, including myself. I bought the SE but if it means donating $5 to make sure the finished game I paid $40 for isn't rushed and ######, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one that would...
Hell, I'm considering pre-ordering for my brother (early Christmas, anyone?) and I would probably do Constellation for both of us as well.
Sheepherd Join Date: 2009-07-15 Member: 68143Posts: 14Membersguys @ UWE you should somehow promote that pic i think

Dictator93 Join Date: 2008-12-21 Member: 65833Posts: 657Members, Reinforced - Shadow Auto VerifiedQUOTE (jamieshepherd @ Nov 19 2010, 12:59 PM) »Just out of curiosity, why don't you offer constellation anymore? I see loads of new faces around that would surely donate if possible, including myself. I bought the SE but if it means donating $5 to make sure the finished game I paid $40 for isn't rushed and ######, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one that would...
Also, UWE. You will have my undying support forever. Seriously.
Games like Natural Selection formed a great part of my Childhood, and NS2 will definitely bring me tears of Joy even though I am getting older now (20 already?! YOU SERIOUS?!)
Please bring back constellation so I can donate on a weekly basis.
Lance_Lake Join Date: 2004-02-10 Member: 26358Posts: 28MembersIf you want honest comments, here's one.
I've been trying to play this since the start of Alpha. Haven't been able to. Now, even with the release of this patch, I keep getting connection errors. So the whole "The fade is in the game" is lost to people like me who says, "I don't care. Just give me a game I can connect to".
You asked me in one thread to wait until the beta patch posts and then see what I think. It arrived. I'm still unable to get the game past the main menu. Seriously.
For those who say it's my computer, I am WELL above the minimum specs listed for the alpha.
So I will say this.. It's still not ready for Beta. UW lost allot of respect in my eyes when they stuck with a deadline that they shouldn't have.
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phoenixbbs Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13379Posts: 432Members, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Subnautica Playtester Auto VerifiedCongratulations, and a quick message to the devs:
See if you can scrape together enough from the remaining funds, forget about the game for the night, and go have a few drinks - you deserve it ! :-)
Hell, i'm sure a few of us will be willing to provide a slush fund for beer for you !My nickname in-game is "phoe", and I'm an NS addict.
I haven't managed more than two days without NS since 2002.
My wife tells me I regularly jump in bed as though I've just been ambushed, and swear (or shout out orders) in my sleep :-}
JimBob_UK Join Date: 2010-04-09 Member: 71233Posts: 28Members Auto VerifiedWas reading the beta thread all last night hoping to hear good things from you guys. Nice to see you waited and responded so honestly. It was a moving speech and I'm so proud of you all. As a student studying game art, you always inspire me to work harder. So congratulations on getting this far in such a short time. I cant wait for the next few updated as I'm curtain were All so close to being able to enjoy working together to bring this game to a fully playable and enjoyable experiences."That's not a Command Station... You silly woman!"
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steppin'razor Join Date: 2008-09-18 Member: 65033Posts: 786Members, ConstellationQUOTE (Commie Spy @ Nov 20 2010, 03:44 AM) »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOi0q7UdHck
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Memphis, TN (SportsNetwork.com) - Omri Casspi scored 11 points off the bench
and the Houston Rockets beat the Memphis Grizzlies, 92-73, in the preseason
finale for both teams.
Donatas Motiejunas also came off the bench to score 10 points and pull down
eight rebounds for the Rockets, who host the Charlotte Bobcats Wednesday to
open their regular season.
Marc Gasol led the Grizzlies with 17 points and eight rebounds, while Zach
Randolph scored 10 points and brought down 10 rebounds. Reserves Quincy
Pondexter and Jon Leuer scored 11 and 10 points, respectively, for Memphis,
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Boise, ID (SportsNetwork.com) - Damian Lillard tallied 23 points and five
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LaMarcus Aldridge chipped in 20 points on 8-of-9 shooting from the field for
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Williams added 11 points and a game-high seven assists off the bench.
Gordon Hayward netted 20 points to pace the Jazz while Enes Kanter went for 11
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Rookies for both teams struggled throughout the contest, with Jazz lottery
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I am planing for the migration of mailbox data from sun java communication suite 5.
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More over the LDAP data was stored in sun java directory server earlier,
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(WXIA) -- Former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino fathered a love child with a CBS production assistant in 2005, the New York Post reports.
The woman, Donna Savattere, is raising the couple's daughter Chloe, the report says.
In a written report to the Post, Marino said, "This is a personal and private matter. I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then ... We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved."
Marino has been married to his wife Claire for 28 years. They have six children.
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|Pro Farmer Profit Briefing event in Holyoke Tuesday
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A one-day profit-briefing conference by the Professional Farmers of America is being brought to Holyoke, Colo., Tuesday, Dec. 13 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Phillips County Event Center.
Pro Farmer editors and industry experts will share what lies ahead for land prices, farm policy, commodities, the economy, world trade, technology and more.
Pro Farmer's mission statement is "to give customers a competitive edge in marketing and financial management through timely delivery and accurate analysis of market-sensitive news and views."
And to provide members with the news, information and analysis that allows them to make an educated and informed marketing decision on their own.
The Pro Farmer team that will be leading Tuesday's conference includes Brian Grete, senior market analyst, editor of Pro Farmer Today and editor of Hot Trades; Jim Wiesemeyer, Pro Farmer Washington consultant; and Mike Walsten, editor of LandOwner newsletter.
Sponsors of the conference will be sharing updates on new technology and products, as well.
Pioneer will be represented by Northeast Colorado agronomist Mike McFarland and area Pioneer manager Jeremy Dirks, who will give the updates.
Pro Farmer's senior market analyst Grete was raised on a small family grain and livestock farm near Muscatine, Iowa. He joined Pro Farmer in January of 1996 after graduating from the University of Northern Iowa.
Grete has held multiple titles with the company, with an emphasis on risk management and commodity analysis. He has served as senior market analyst at Pro Farmer since December of 2003.
Wiesemeyer resides in the Washington D.C. area and is a frequent contributor to Pro Farmer's coverage of farm policy and world trade. He graduated from Southern Illinois University and has reported on farm legislation and trade policy since 1978.
Walsten has covered major business trends in agriculture for more than 35 years. After growing up on a grain and livestock farm in Western Illinois, Walsten graduated from the University of Illinois with an undergraduate degree in agriculture communications and a master's degree in business administration in the early 1970s.
Since then he's covered business and management issues as well as price outlook and marketing issues in various positions with Farm Journal magazine and Professional Farmers of America. He now applies his extensive background and analytical skill to today's surprising farm and ranch market as editor of LandOwner.
Registrations are still being accepted for the Dec. 13 conference in Holyoke. Those interested may contact their local Pioneer sales agency or call 800-772-0023.
Coffee and rolls will be served when the doors open at 8 a.m. at the Event Center at the Phillips County Fairgrounds. Lunch is included in the seminar as well.


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The University provides short-term parking at meters and digital PayStations. All CSU coin meters offer a four (4) hour time limit parking. The parking rate is $.25 per 10 minutes or $1.50 per hour; the meters accept US quarters only. PayStations allow parking up to three (3) hours and accept cash or credit. PayStations DO NOT give change - exact payment is required. Short term parking is located in the following areas on campus:
Click here for a map of Visitor locations
- Lot 22 (Student Center), - PayStation, pre-payment required. The PayStation is located near the door to the Student Center.
- Rec Garage (RG) - PayStation, pre-payment required. The PayStation is located near the door to the Rec Center.
- Lot 70, E. 24th Street by Euclid Commons - PayStation, pre-payment required. The PayStation is located near the door to the Welcome Center.
- Lot 66, Mather Mansion/Julka Hall Dr - three (3) disabled meters and 12 PayStation spaces, pre-payment required. The PayStation is located near the door to Mather Mansion.
- Lot 40, Wolstein Drive in front of the Wolstein Center off of Prospect Avenue - PayStation, pre-payment required. Two (2) coin meter spaces.
- Lot 54*, enter from E. 24th Street. PayStation is located near the E. 24th Street entrance. This PayStation allows a maximum purchase of eight (8) hours for $6.00. *This is the ONLY PayStation with this fee structure.
- Lot 21 (2001 Euclid Ave) – 19 visitor spaces available. Six spaces are reserved for disabled patrons.
- Lot 59, E. 25th Street (south of Payne), next to the Plant Services Building - 11 coin meters
- Lot 14, enter from Payne Ave (Behind Krenzler Field) - 13 coin meters
Prepaid Green and White permits holders are not permitted to park at meters or Paystation spaces without paying (follow posted signage). Prepaid Scratch-off hangtags are also not accepted at coin meter and PayStation spaces.
Parking at a malfunctioning coin meter is prohibited. Coin meters and PayStations are enforceable 24 hour per day seven days per week. Citations may be issued every two (2) hours at expired meters and PayStation spaces.
Please notify Parking & Transportation Services at 216-687-2023 regarding a defective meter.
Parking meters on E. 22nd between Euclid and Chester as well as the meters on Chester Avenue and area city streets are not managed by Parking & Transportation Services. Be sure to read all parking signs and note the parking restrictions for the morning and evening rush hours when using city of Cleveland meters.
Pay Station in Lot 22 (Student Center), On E. 24th, Julka Dr. and in Rec Garage– click here for full information.


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Meeting With Craig Alexander
TCSD January Club Meeting
Guest Speaker Craig Alexander
Also a special presentation to our own Skip Gleavey
Thursday January 29th @ 5:00
Coastal Sports and Wellness
In keeping with the TCSD tradition of hosting world champions, we are proud to present 2008 Ironman World Champion Craig "Crowie" Alexander. However, there is so much more to this athlete including many years of winning at all levels and a commitment and love for his family. I don't think I have read an interview with Craig where he does not mention his family, wife Neri and daughter Lucy, and their importance to him.
On the results side of the ledger, here are but a few of his wins;
2008 Results
- 1st Ironman World Championships, Hawaii, USA
- 1st Muskoka Ironman 70.3, Ontario, Canada
- 1st Newfoundland Ironman 70.3, Canada
2007 Results
2006 Race Results
2005 Race Results
Maybe this will be his year for a victory at Oceanside?
The details:
5:00 food, announcements and raffle at 6:00ish. SPECIAL PRESENTATION to Skip Gleavey at 6:30 and then our guest speaker at 6:45.
Thursday January 29th Coastal Sports and Wellness. Driving directions are here


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|Ag-ed gets new arc welders
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
New arc welders are now in place in the metal shop in Holyoke JR/SR High's agricultural education program, thanks to the support of a $5,000 DuPont Pioneer grant.
Local ag instructor Guy Kuntz said these new arc welders will provide students with the opportunity to work with equipment that is currently used in the industry. They will be able to learn new techniques and methods of welding that can be used on many different steel types.
DuPont Pioneer supports local ag education programs that are helping to prepare students for future careers in a variety of ag-related fields. DuPont Pioneer personnel involved in the recent grant donation are account manager Shawn Sullivan and local sales representative Erik Vieselmeyer.
Pioneer makes contributions to community-based organizations on behalf of the business and employees. Consideration for community outreach grants are given to communities where Pioneer representatives, employees and customers live and work and that support quality-of-life initiatives to create an improved, sustainable lifestyle for people worldwide.
New arc welders were recently purchased for the Holyoke agricultural education program through funds donated by DuPont Pioneer. Pictured from left with the new equipment are Holyoke FFA executive committee member Andrew Kent, Pioneer sales representative Erik Vieselmeyer, ag-ed advisor Guy Kuntz, Pioneer account manager Shawn Sullivan and FFA president Makayla Spitz.
—Enterprise photo
Holyoke Enterprise February 21, 2013


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I am putting in for the best one too
Well dang, I thought mine was the best one thanks for the help!
The Deer, well I finally got some pictures scanned, hopefully I can get them attached this time. The bucks offical green score was 89 4/8 and after the drying period he ended up 88 even. They do shrink a bunch!
The last two pictures were for the EHJ article. Guy had me take more because my field photos were sub-par.
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WOW, thats something else Halfslam. Very cool
That is a monster!
What a pig Halfslam! Great job!
I'll have to commit that kind of time when I draw. I've learned over the years that I'd rather burn points on one quality hunt a year and invest plenty of time to do it well. In the next 2-3 years I'd like to draw a quality antelope tag and spend 3 weeks and kill the best buck possible.
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UH, thanks. How many points do you have? I agree, taking the time to invest the scouting and time in a good tag pays off. Being able to scout, find what you are looking for, patterning him and keeping tabs on him until opening morning then being able to harvest him is what hunting is all about. I spent 15 days finding and following this buck and it paid off.
The funny thing was I knew he was a 'booner' but I had a hard time judging him because his head was so damn big. The taxidermist refered to him as a 'mule head' and said he had the biggest head of any antelope he had ever seen. He had to order a special form and modify it. He always ran with a bunch of does and I never saw another buck around him until one day a 13" buck ran in and tried to impress his girls and my buck ran him off. It'd nice being able to compare a 13" buck to a heavy 17" buck.


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Sacramento, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - DeMarcus Cousins poured in a game-high 31
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Clippers, 99-88, in preseason action on Monday.
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Spring Hill, Florida -- Five people, including two boys, remain hospitalized following a mobile home fire in Pasco County.
Seven family members were asleep when a fire broke out at their home on Old Shady Hills Road around 6:40 a.m. Friday.
A neighbor described the four-generation family that lived in and luckily made it out of the home.
"A mother, father, grandmother, a grandfather and a great-grandfather and two precious baby boys," said Melissa Sloop.
Five of the seven are being treated at Tampa General Hospital. There is no word on the condition of the boys ages 5 and 6, but two of the adults are listed in critical and the other adult is listed in fair according to a hospital spokesperson.
Sky 10 flew over the scene in the morning, as the fierce flames demolished the home in just over an hour.
"They lost everything, there's nothing left, said Sloop.
Because of the home's rural location, officials say there were no hydrants nearby so several tankers had to be brought in as crews tried to extinguish the blaze. It took 13 fire crews more than an hour to get the fire under control.
Pasco County Fire Rescue training Chief Andrew Fossa said that the pets helped save them.
"Everyone was asleep. I believe one of the dogs barking alerted them to the fire," said Fossa.
The family had nearly a dozen pets living in the home, some are still unaccounted, others are being treated and some did not make it.
"We do care about the animals but the babies come first," Sloop.
"It's heartbreaking and devastating to see the devastation that happened to the homeowners the people the parents," said Fossa. "I myself being a dog lover the loss of the life of the dogs on top of that.
The family is comforted knowing that everyone got out safely but they realize that the pictures, valuables, and family heirlooms that were destroyed in the fire cannot be replaced.
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text: Jamming Tripoli: how insurgents fought back against Gaddafi's spy network Magazine features 01 June 12 by Matthieu Aikins This article was taken from the June 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. He once was known as al-Jamil -- the Handsome One -- for his chiselled features and dark curls. But four decades as dictator had considerably dimmed the looks of Muammar Gaddafi. At 68, he now wore a face lined with deep folds and his lips hung slack, crested with a sparse moustache. He stepped from the shadows of his presidential palace to greet Ghaida al-Tawati, whom he had summoned that evening by sending one of his hulking female bodyguards to fetch her. It was the first time Tawati had seen him without his sunglasses.Libya was in an uproar. It was 10 February, 2011, the beginning of the Arab Spring -- a series of uprisings, revolutions and civil wars that would radically alter the politics of the Middle East. In Libya, opponents of the Gaddafi regime had called for a day of protest on 17 February, to mark the anniversary of a 2006 protest in the city of Benghazi, where security forces had killed 11 demonstrators and wounded dozens more.Tawati was one of the most outspoken dissidents blogging openly from inside Libya. The 34-year-old had come to political consciousness during the mid-2000s. Her parents had divorced when she was young; in Libya, growing up with a single mother made her a social outcast. The injustice she experienced as a child led her to critique the injustice of the regime, particularly on women's issues, and over time she won a modest online following. As 17 February approached, she blogged that if Libyans failed to turn out for the demonstrations she would set fire to herself just as Mohammed Bouazizi had done two months earlier on the streets of Tunisia. Gaddafi himself had heard news of this threat and decided he needed to meet her.Despite the dictator's haggard appearance, his manner remained confident and effusive. Gaddafi could be a legendary charmer, a man deeply at ease with ordinary Libyans. He seemed sympathetic to Tawati's request for more openness in Libya. Finally she worked up the courage to ask him why the government had blocked YouTube several months earlier.Gaddafi acted oblivious. "Is it switched off?" he asked.She complained to him about the way that allies of his regime had treated her. Ever since she'd started blogging under her own name in 2007, Tawati had been harassed -- and worse. "Ghaida al-Tawati, the goat of the internet," read one Facebook page her attackers created; a string of graphic sexual comments was posted underneath her photo. More bewildering, though, was the invasion of privacy: somehow, emails of hers had been leaked on to the internet, even displayed on state television. She had been accused of working with foreign agents. Her reputation as a woman had been smeared, she told Gaddafi."If you want to get married," the dictator interjected, "we'll get you married to the best man.""I'm not interested in getting married," she replied."So, have you made an appointment to burn yourself, then?" Gaddafi asked, a wry smile curling his lips.Tawati said that she hadn't -- yet."What do you really want from me?" he asked with exasperation."You already know the reason why people are demonstrating," she replied.Then Gaddafi asked her to come and work for him. The two of them would solve these problems together, he said.This was the moment, Tawati would later say, that she realised the uprising would succeed. The old man didn't understand just how committed she and other activists were to his downfall. But like Tawati, these activists would suffer at the hands of Gaddafi's spy service, whose own capabilities had been heightened by 21st-century technology. By now, it's well known that the Arab Spring showed the promise of the internet as a crucible for democratic activism. But, in the shadows, a second narrative unfolded, one that demonstrated the internet's equal potential for government surveillance and repression on a scale unimaginable with the analogue techniques of phone taps and informants. Today, with Gaddafi dead and a provisional government of former rebels in charge, we can begin to uncover the spying machine that helped the dictator cling to power.***The regime had been following Tawati online for years, and the harassment was mostly orchestrated by a group that came to be called the Electronic Army. According to former members, this loose organisation was founded several years ago when Mutassim Gaddafi, one of the dictator's playboy sons, had been enraged after videos of him attending a nude beach party on New Year's Eve were posted online. Mutassim, who chaired Libya's National Security Council, created a group of internet users, some paid, some voluntary, to try to take down those videos and other anti-Gaddafi material posted online. They bombarded YouTube with flags for copyright infringement and inappropriate content and waged a constant back-and-forth battle with critics of the regime, whom they would barrage with emails and offensive comments.After all the cruelties she had endured as a child, Tawati could deal with the insults directed at her. But it stunned her when, in August 2010, some of her private email exchanges with other dissidents got leaked to Hala Misrati, a notorious TV propagandist and one of the Electronic Army's apparent leaders. How had her accounts been compromised? The answer, although she would not know it until after the regime fell, lay in a secret deal Gaddafi had made with a company called Amesys -- a subsidiary of the French defence firm Bull SA -- for technology that would allow his spy services to access all the data flowing through Libya's internet system. In a proposal to the regime dated 11 November, 2006, Amesys (then called i2e Technologies) laid out the specifications for its comprehensive Homeland Security Program. It included encrypted communications systems, bugged mobile phones (with sample phones included), and, at the plan's heart, a proprietary system called Eagle for monitoring the country's internet traffic.A related Amesys presentation explained the significance of Eagle to a government seeking to control activities inside its borders. Warning of an "increasing need of high-level intelligence in the constant struggle against criminals and terrorism", the document touted Eagle's ability to capture bulk internet traffic passing through conventional, satellite and mobile-phone networks, and then to store that data in a filterable and searchable database. The database, in turn, could be integrated with other sources of intelligence, such as phone recordings, allowing security personnel to pick through audio and data from a given person all at once, in real time or by historical time stamp. In other words, instead of choosing targets and monitoring them, officials could simply sweep up everything, sort it by time and target, and then browse through it later at their leisure. In 2007, Philippe Vannier, former head of Amesys and current chief executive of Bull, reportedly met Abdullah Senussi, Libya's head of intelligence, in Tripoli. A deal was signed that year, and beginning in 2008 Amesys engineers and technicians, many of them former French military personnel, travelled to Libya to set up several data and monitoring centres for the country's Internal Security service. According to engineers at Libyan internet provider LTT, two high-bandwidth "mirrors" were installed -- one on the country's main fibre-optic trunk and one inside the DSL switchboard -- to copy all internet traffic and feed it into the Eagle system, which became operational in 2009.One of the monitoring centres, known as HQ 2, was located on the ground floor of a six-storey Internal Security building on Sikka Street in Tripoli. Inside, a sign on an interior door bore the logos of both Amesys and the Libyan government and warned, "Help keep our classified business secret. Don't discuss classified information out of the HQ." Behind it, analysts sat at their terminals and used a web browser to log on to the Eagle system, where they would peruse their latest intercepts or search for new targets to monitor using keywords, phone numbers or email and IP addresses. The system was capable of collecting email, chat and voice-over-IP conversations, file transfers and even browsing histories from anyone who used broadband or dialup internet in Libya. The analysts could call up social-network diagrams for the targets they were hunting, with the links between each suspect showing the frequency and type of communication. Emails of interest were labelled "follow-up" for the security services. A filing room with shelves of folders held thousands of printed-out emails and chat logs, case files with fingerprints and photographs and transcripts of phone intercepts faxed to the centre. Eagle was only one of the tools the regime used against its online opponents. Unaware of the system's watchful gaze, Tawati assumed that her emails had started leaking because someone had gained access to her account. So in August 2010, she began chatting with a Libyan computer expert she had heard of called Ahmed Gwaider. She asked if she could hire him to help her, and he agreed. Unfortunately for her, Gwaider was a hacker in the employ of Libya's secret police. The attitude of most Libyan hackers toward the Gaddafi regime tended to be hostile or at best neutral, but Gwaider got lured in. Rabia Ragoubi, a rebel sympathiser who befriended Gwaider when he joined a Linux users group that Ragoubi had founded, thinks the money proved too strong a pull. Gwaider liked to trick his victims into giving up access themselves -- a method called social engineering. He sent Tawati a Word document infected with a Trojan, which installed malware on her computer when she opened it. At that point he had access to everything, including her Facebook account and her supposedly encrypted Skype conversations, which Gwaider siphoned off with malware that recorded all the audio on her machine. All of it got posted to the internet in an effort to smear her. Read page 2 1234 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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