Yus,
      Thanks for the information. They have killed the
messenger but they cannot stop the message. The man
always preaches peace.
Once again, thanks.
Peace!
Simon

--- "Yusupha  C. Jow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> CHANTING DOWN BABYLON
> The CIA & the Death of Bob Marley
> Story by Alex Constantine.
>
> Did a soccer accident really cause Bob Marley's
> death, as has been widely
> reported? Or was the dark hand of CIA covert
> operations behind the death of
> the greatest countercultural prophet of our time?
>
> Marley knew the drill-in Jamaica, at the height of
> his success, when music
> and politics were still one, before the fog of
> censorship rolled into the
> island, old wounds were opened by a wave of
> destabilization politics. Stories
> appeared in the local, regional and international
> press downsizing the
> achievements of the quasi-socialist Jamaican
> government under Prime Minister
> Michael Manley. In the late 1970s, the island was
> flooded with cheap guns,
> heroin, cocaine, right-wing propaganda, death-squad
> rule and, as Grenada's
> Prime Minister Maurice Bishop described it three
> years later, the CIA's
> "pernicious attempts [to] wreck the economy."
>
> "Destabilization," Bishop told the emergent New
> Jewel Party, "is the name
> given the most recently developed method of
> controlling and exploiting the
> lives and resources of a country and its people by a
> bigger and more powerful
> country through bullying, intimidation and
> violence."
>
> In response to the fascistic machinations of the
> CIA, Marley wove his lyrics
> into a revolutionary crucifix to ward off the
> cloak-and-dagger "vampires"
> descending upon the island. June 1976:
> Then-Governor-General Florizel
> Glasspole placed Jamaica under martial law to stanch
> the bloody pre-election
> violence. Prime Minister Manley's People's National
> Party asked the Wailers
> to play at the Smile Jamaica concert in December.
> Despite the rising
> political mayhem, Marley agreed to perform.
>
> In late November, a death squad slipped beneath the
> gates at Marley's home on
> Hope Road in Kingston. As biographer Timothy White
> tells it, at about 9 PM,
> "the torpor of the quiet tropical night was
> interrupted by a queer noise that
> was not quite like a firecracker." Marley was in the
> kitchen at the rear of
> the house eating a grapefruit when he heard the
> bursts of automatic gunfire.
> Don Taylor, Marley's manager, had been talking to
> the musician when the
> bullets ripped through the back of his legs. The men
> were "peppering the
> house with a barrage of rifle and pistol fire,
> shattering windows and
> splintering plaster and woodwork on the first
> floor." Rita Marley, trying to
> escape with her children and a reporter from the
> Jamaica Daily News, was shot
> by one of the men in the front yard. The bullet
> caught her in the head,
> lifting her off her feet as it burrowed between
> scalp and skull.
>
> Meanwhile, a man with an automatic rifle had burst
> through the back door off
> the pantry, pushing past a fleeing Seeco Patterson,
> the Wailers'
> percussionist, to aim beyond Don Taylor at Bob
> Marley. The gunman got off
> eight shots. One bullet struck a counter, another
> buried itself in the
> ceiling, and five tore into Taylor. He fell but
> remained conscious, with four
> bullets in his legs and one buried at the base of
> his spine. The last shot
> creased Marley's breast below his heart and drilled
> deep into his arm.
>
> The survival of the reggae singer and his entire
> entourage appeared to be the
> work of Rasta. "The firepower these guys apparently
> brought with them was
> immense," Wailers publicist Jeff Walker recalls.
> "There were bullet holes
> everywhere. In the kitchen, the bathroom, the living
> room, floors, ceilings,
> doorways and outside."
> There has since been widespread belief that the CIA
> arranged the hit on Hope
> Road. Neville Garrick, a Marley insider and former
> art director of the
> Jamaica Daily News, had film of "suspicious
> characters" lurking near the
> house before the assassination attempt. The day of
> the shooting, he had
> snapped some photos of Marley standing beside a
> Volkswagen in a pool of
> mango-tree shade. The strangers in the background
> made Marley nervous; he
> told Garrick that they appeared to be "scouting" the
> property. In the prints,
> however, their features were too blurred by shadow
> to make out. After the
> concert, Garrick took the photographs and prints to
> Nassau. Sadly, while the
> Wailers and crew prepared to board a flight to
> London, he discovered that the
> film had been stolen.
> Many of the CIA's files on Bob Marley remain
> classified to the present day.
> However, on December 5, 1976, a week after the
> assault on Hope Road, the
> Wailers appeared at the Smile Jamaica fest, despite
> their wounds, to perform
> one long, defiant anthem of rage directed at the
> CIA-"War"-suggesting the
> Wailers' own attitude toward the "vampires" from
> Langley:
>
> Until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
> That now hold our brothers
> In Angola, in Mozambique,
> South Africa
> In subhuman bondage
> Have been toppled,
> Utterly destroyed,
> Everywhere is war…
>
> Only a handful of Marley's most trusted comrades
> knew of the band's
> whereabouts before the festival. Yet a member of the
> film crew, or so he
> claimed-reportedly, he didn't have a camera-managed
> to talk his way past
> machete-bearing Rastas to enter the Hope Road
> encampment: one Carl Colby, son
> of the late CIA director William Colby.
>
> While the band prepared for the concert, a gift was
> delivered, according to a
> witness at the enclave-a new pair of boots for Bob
> Marley. Former Los Angeles
> cinematographer Lee Lew-Lee (his camera work can be
> seen in the Oscar-winning
> documentary The Panama Deception) was close friends
> with members of the
> Wailers, and he believes that Marley's cancer can be
> traced to the boots: "He
> put his foot in and said, 'Ow!' A friend got in
> there… he said, 'let's [get]
> in the boot, and he pulled a length of copper wire
> out-it was embedded in the
> boot."
>
> Had the wire been treated chemically with a
> carcinogenic toxin? The
> appearance of Colby at Marley's compound was
> certainly provocative. (And so
> was Colby's subsequent part in the fall of another
> black cultural icon, O.J.
> Simpson, nearly 20 years later. At Simpson's
> preliminary hearing in 1995,
> Colby-who resided next door to Nicole Simpson on
> Gretna Green Way in
> Brentwood, a mile from her residence on Bundy-and
> his wife both took the
> stand to testify for the prosecution that Nicole's
> ex-husband had badgered
> and threatened her. Colby's testimony was
> instrumental in the formal charge
> of murder filed against Simpson and the nationally
> televised fiasco known as
> the "Trial of the Century.")
>
> Seventeen years after the Hope Road assault, Don
> Taylor published a memoir,
> Marley and Me, in which he alleges that a "senior
> CIA agent" had been planted
> among the crew as part of the plan to "assassinate"
> Marley. It's possible
> that this lapse in security allowed Colby entrance
> to the compound. It's
> clear that the CIA wanted Marley out of the picture.
> After the assassination
> attempt, a rumor circulated that the CIA was going
> to finish Marley off. The
> source of the rumor was the agency itself. The
> Wailers had set out on a world
>
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