Folks,
I was chatting to Al Venter who really is an awesome man S.Africans should be proud of. He is an incredibly prolific writer on military subjects and a correspondent for Janes in the UK who are #1 when it comes to military matter worldwide.

In my opinion Al J Venter and Peter Stiff are two absolutely OUTSTANDING products from S.Africa and Rhodesia respectively. They are both incredibly prolific authors of note who have written on military subjects and our military history in a way that takes my breath away. Al is an amazing product of Afrikanerdom I must tell you.

And Al is just rocking on from good to great!! He is currently working on FOUR books. A hot one relates to the Muslim search for the nuclear bomb!! He forbade me from mentioning the title. It is a follow on from a book he did last year about Iran. He was kind enough to send me a free copy by courier from London. It arrived yesterday and it is WOW… bloody WOW… This is my reading matter for the next several months (I read slowly and I just finished reading about the Russo-Finnish Winter war of 1939 – fascinating story).

Now, back to Al. I started mildly reading his preface not expecting too much when he starts explaining in WHAT DANGER HE WAS IN 2004 VISITING S.AFRICA and how the Iranians hunt people down and kill people even in the USA… and they ALSO have a presence in S.Africa! I kid you not! He described how the ANC-led Govt here is in cahoots with the Iranians. Al went on to describe how his house was staked out and how they bust into his house stealing his laptop, switching on his computer… while leaving GOLD, TV’s, etc untouched. They were after the information he had collected. Now it wasn’t the Iranians who broke into his house – it was S.Africa’s National Intelligence who hit him while he was working on the Iranian nuke stuff. (He also wrote about S.Africa’s nuclear program in the book). He later got hard evidence that S.Africa’s National Intelligence had hit him… because of info they got from his laptop which they later leaked elsewhere!!! But clearly, the S.African Govt and the Iranians were working in cahoots!

Al also dropped an interesting titbit. Al said that the US and British Govts aren’t keep to rock the boat with S.Africa because S.Africa is the only remaining country in the region which is still barely functioning. (This adds to my thinking of why the USA and Britain aren’t bringing Mugabe down).

Al was saying that American officials were telling him how dangerous it was for him to return to S.Africa for the period he did!!!

But it gets better… and wilder… I mentioned to Al Venter that there’s a theory I’ve heard of that PW Botha was poisoned before his career ended. Its something I’ve discussed with PW himself. Its something I’ve mentioned before many times on my website over the years.

So Al mentions… oh so casually… that he too was POISONED as were a couple of others! He told me he has no idea how they poisoned him but he described to me what happened and how it messed him up. Then he mentioned that he knows even of a senior military officer from the former SADF who was killed in this way. He said to me… that poisoning is the way our enemies do things these these days…

Al mentioned a bunch of fascinating things to me, which I will have a look at as my time allows.

But I thought I’d mention that POISONING… in modern times… of important and dangerous people… is REALLY EASY THESE DAYS. REALLY EASY. Its so simple.

I’ve mentioned this before. Anatoliy Golitsyn mentioned the power of poisoning in his 1984 book, “New Lies for Old”. He said it was the method communists would dispose of their enemies. Golitsyn predicted the fall of the Berlin wall 5 years before it happened. Golitsyn was ex-KGB.

I thought that Al Venter’s comments should really make people take a good close look at key people on our side who have died in the last 20 years. Al explained some aspects of the poisoning. I will go through what he told me and then pass it on and see how I can verify it. Al gave me names of people who were poisoned and survived, but also of the one he knows who did not make it.

Golitsyn said that there are poisons which are undetectable. Even medical examination does not reveal their presence. This is worth thinking about folks. You can’t prove it… but it happens… Golitsyn, back in 1984, spoke of poisons which can cause “natural heart attacks”, but I suspect there may be much more sophisticated poisons by now. I’m sure there’s a secret and highly developed science of poisoning these days which Military/Intelligence people have access to. Jan