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Tailwind: SOG Infowar -- . This is the unedited version of what was published in the Bulletin Board section of the June 1999 issue of Soldier of Fortune Magazine.

When Ted Turner's CNN and Time Warner alleged in June 1998 that SOG had gone after American defectors with nerve gas in Vietnam, an Internet Mike Force of Operation Tailwind veterans mobilized. After-action reports showed that; (1) aging but still dangerous SOG operators can learn new tricks (use computers) (2), CNN couldn't deliver the facts to fulfill the fantasy, (3), CNN producers April Oliver and Jack Smith were fired, but (4), other usual suspects, including Peter Arnett escaped. Among the escapees, CNN founder Ted Turner feigned repentance with a pseudo-apology; "If anybody has a whip, I'll take my shirt off and beat myself until I'm bloody . . . . I couldn't hurt any more if I were bleeding . . . . It's been the most horrible nightmare I've ever lived through . . . . If committing suicide would help, I've even given that some consideration."
Enough Said.

[Timesink]

"If committing suicide would help, I've even given that some consideration."

Coming from Ted, that means nothing. As a major league manic-depressive, he's been considering suicide on and off his entire life.