April 21, 2002
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Messed Up Politicians
My friend Nick has a friend who's currently on a backpacking journey. He just arrived in Shanghai a couple days ago, but he started in London, England. He went across Europe through Russia and into Mongolia into China and man has he some crazy stories! Of all the places he's been to, he says Russia was absolutely the worst. It was all chaotic and in disarray. Prostitutes everywhere, thieves and corrupt policemen.
The most interesting story told however, was something that took place about 25 years ago on another continent. At around that time, there was an incident in Israel where a plane was hijacked full of Israeli passengers. The Ugandan president, then somewhat of a pshychotic leader ready to join in the plight of anti-semitism welcomed the plane to land in Uganda and offered to protect the hijackers. After some unfruitful negotiation, the Israelis got impatient and took things into their own hands.
Isreal flew one of their own passenger planes into the main airport in Uganda where the hijacked plane was. Ready to attack them, Uganda had the place surrounded with its own army and had the hijacked plane relatively well guarded. What was the Israeli strategy you may ask? Well, the bay doors of the Israeli plane opened and a couple limousines rolled out. The limos had tinted windows and had the Ugandan flag flapping from the front hood (like any presidential limo would). Somewhat confused, the Ugandan army must have thought it was the president of Uganda rolling out of the planes. Meanwhile, inside each stretch limo was a cadre of armed special force Israeli hit men hiding behind the tinted windows in a bulletproof limo, ready to take out everyone that stood in their way. Only one person died on the Israeli side, former PM Netanyahu's brother who was the commander of that cadre of army men. Within hours the Israeli army cleaned house and the hijacked plane was flown back to Israel. Anyhow, Uganda and Israeli are still not on good terms.
I find people don't seem to comment too much on my longer posts, so I'll tell you the one about North Korea's president next time. THAT one's fucked up too.
Here I am karaokeing at ASES Stanford. I'm a little drunk.
Comments (12)
dude, i thought cali was supposed to have good looking people?
as to your story, i guess ugandans never learned greek mythology, otherwise they would've recognized this variation on the "trojan horse".
Damn, link doesn't work for me. =(
actually, none of the people in the picture are from cali!
eh, just a bit drunk? maybe people do read your longer entries... but don't comment on them? or maybe they only read your long entries if they're interesting...
dope picture. im feeling that the north korean story will be sexual or something.
Thanks for the story...I enjoyed it...
yeah right you just left that last comment so keep us begging for more stories. come on spill em!!!
Hmmm... now that I can see the picture, I shoulda just known that was what drunk Si looks like... afterall that's what you looked like right before and after you threw up outside of Midtown (I know I know... I looked like that too one year later... initiation baby!)
haha.. gracie, u a supasta!
this is a long blog to you?
si, i finally read your uganda story...quite interesting i must say.
as to our earlier conversation, i just want to reiterate two things: 1)don't stress too much cuz you know things will work out in the end; 2)take some of that great advice that you dole out to all of your friends.
funny, too bad your attention span is so low....my last blog seemed to have captured the attention of most horny boys.....
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