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    Re: The payback - The Grayzone live .. now on Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on April 16, 2024, 1:55 pm, in reply to "Re: The payback - The Grayzone live .. now on"

    "...knew whose portrait it was since you confirmed the likeness. It also seems you knew that the small balding man was King Hussain. How?

    Maybe he wasnt? Who knows, he may have surrounded himself with lookalikes. The man I saw was certainly older...rounder, more diminutive, but this was many, many years later than say, the image below where the both figure. ( Hussein on left)

    It was indeed King Husseins house and as confirmed by his personal security detail, he was in residence.
    I recognised Rabin because my old man followed events in the Middle East pretty closely: I followed on and obviously still do.

    I looked up the Rabin thing when I got back. Turns out that as these things go, they could be described as good friends.
    Though I was too well mannered to say it...I thought the painting was actually pretty poor: a "rush job". Something confirmed by the wet oil paint it left on my sleeve when unwrapping it.



    On another Forrest Gump moment...did I ever tell you I met & shook hands with Daniel Ortaga...The Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolutionary leader who overthrew the Somoza regime?

    -And in Glasgow of all places!...It's true.

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