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25-09-03, 17:49
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Rumsfeld Is Ace of Spades in French Deck of Cards
Thu September 25, 2003 10:12 AM ET
By Mark John
PARIS (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the Ace of Spades and al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a Joker in a provocative pack of French playing cards depicting "the 52 most dangerous American officials."
A riposte to the "most-wanted" cards of Iraqi leaders issued to U.S. soldiers, the deck is the latest commercial offering by a radical thinktank whose conspiracy theory account of the September 11 attacks stormed French bestseller charts last year.
"We've already sold some 2,500 decks. That's not bad considering we couldn't find anyone who was willing to print them at first," said Thierry Meyssan, president of the Paris-based Reseau Voltaire group.
"We were shocked by the indecency of the cards distributed by the U.S. military. It was as if arresting people was some kind of game," Meyssan told Reuters on Thursday.
Two hundred packs of the original Pentagon-devised U.S. cards were sent to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The American public has since snapped up hundreds of thousands of the decks, which portray Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the Ace of Spades.
The French cards bestow that honor not on President Bush but Rumsfeld. Under his mugshot, he is accused of using the September 11 attacks "to increase military budgets and plan an army in space that could completely dominate Earth."
As King of Diamonds -- the suit chosen to represent economic power in the U.S. administration -- Bush is described merely as "head of a baseball club... designated president of the United States by friends of his father at the Supreme Court."
In the 2000 election, the Court stopped a potentially decisive recount in Florida, a move that handed the presidency to Bush.
Osama bin Laden, whose al Qaeda network Washington blames for the September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks, is a Joker described as "a CIA agent charged...with provoking a clash between the 'Arab-Muslim' and 'Judaeo-Christian' worlds."
Meyssan won notoriety for his book "L'Effroyable Imposture" ("The Appalling Fraud"), which suggested U.S. military insiders were probably behind the September 11 attacks. ($1=0.87 Euro)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3507575
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Rumsfeld Is Ace of Spades in French Deck of Cards
Thu September 25, 2003 10:12 AM ET
By Mark John
PARIS (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the Ace of Spades and al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden a Joker in a provocative pack of French playing cards depicting "the 52 most dangerous American officials."
A riposte to the "most-wanted" cards of Iraqi leaders issued to U.S. soldiers, the deck is the latest commercial offering by a radical thinktank whose conspiracy theory account of the September 11 attacks stormed French bestseller charts last year.
"We've already sold some 2,500 decks. That's not bad considering we couldn't find anyone who was willing to print them at first," said Thierry Meyssan, president of the Paris-based Reseau Voltaire group.
"We were shocked by the indecency of the cards distributed by the U.S. military. It was as if arresting people was some kind of game," Meyssan told Reuters on Thursday.
Two hundred packs of the original Pentagon-devised U.S. cards were sent to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The American public has since snapped up hundreds of thousands of the decks, which portray Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the Ace of Spades.
The French cards bestow that honor not on President Bush but Rumsfeld. Under his mugshot, he is accused of using the September 11 attacks "to increase military budgets and plan an army in space that could completely dominate Earth."
As King of Diamonds -- the suit chosen to represent economic power in the U.S. administration -- Bush is described merely as "head of a baseball club... designated president of the United States by friends of his father at the Supreme Court."
In the 2000 election, the Court stopped a potentially decisive recount in Florida, a move that handed the presidency to Bush.
Osama bin Laden, whose al Qaeda network Washington blames for the September 11 attacks on U.S. landmarks, is a Joker described as "a CIA agent charged...with provoking a clash between the 'Arab-Muslim' and 'Judaeo-Christian' worlds."
Meyssan won notoriety for his book "L'Effroyable Imposture" ("The Appalling Fraud"), which suggested U.S. military insiders were probably behind the September 11 attacks. ($1=0.87 Euro)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3507575
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