The Tora-Bora Manuscripts
December 30, 2001 9:13 AM Subscribe
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posted by Slithy_Tove at 9:29 AM on December 30, 2001
Actually I think the writer is David Belfield aka Hassan Tantai, the American assassin who offed Ali Akbar Tabatabai (former Iranian diplomat) in 1980. Hassan is starring in the new Iranian hit movie Kandahar and is a wanted man in the US.
posted by marc-hamilton at 9:43 AM on December 30, 2001
posted by pattiann at 9:49 AM on December 30, 2001
posted by xiffix at 10:09 AM on December 30, 2001
posted by andrew cooke at 10:45 AM on December 30, 2001
posted by skylar at 10:54 AM on December 30, 2001
posted by MidasMulligan at 11:05 AM on December 30, 2001
posted by digital_insomnia at 1:10 PM on December 30, 2001
My vote is that this barely reaches shaggy-dog story level. For a journalist, he sure has a way of burying his lead. Three pages in and I haven't a clue what the big secret is.
posted by dhartung at 2:39 PM on December 30, 2001
Well I'm not sure he has. Look here.
posted by Stomne at 7:02 PM on December 30, 2001
posted by xiffix at 8:29 PM on December 30, 2001
[...]As he said in the email: "a home-made personal fantasy spread more than I'd expected"...
The truth is I am a writer, besides other things, (it is true I am not American), and Ali Kilabah is a personage and also my alias for this story. The Tora Bora manuscripts is an ongoing story that mixes real facts from the news (you might recognize the photographers arrested by the tribesman, the manifestation in Islamabad, etc.), some really ancient information I want to pass on (a kind of excerpt of the information from a book I translated from English ten years ago), and a fiction personage (Ali Kilabah) to wrap it up in one story.
I had just published it on Blogger when it got hacked, so I decided, just for fun, to write that introduction and leave the idea the hacker was trying to stop Tora-Bora's manuscripts of being published. You know how blogs are, the great majority of them are usually forgotten corner on the web, read only by those who write them and their mothers. I thought mine would be so, except that my mother does not use the Internet.
But things were not so, and this is the wonder of the Web. Besides you, some other people found it and between Dec 31st and Jan 1st, almost one thousand unique visitors had came in, consuming 63 Mb of the 100 Mb Port5.com would allow me to use. So I moved it back to Blogger.com in a new address torabora.blogspot.com (I am still unable to log in the original tora-bora.blogspot.com after the hacking, because my password does not work).
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posted by andrew cooke at 2:40 PM on January 5, 2002
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And what's the difference?
posted by y2karl at 9:26 AM on December 30, 2001