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RAMZAJ DISCONTINUES OPERATION
08.04.2003 [18:46] 

  

Events of the last 2 days have made further work of Ramzaj group in its 
current format impossible. 

With the [Russian] embassy personnel and journalists having left Iraq and 
most of Iraqi information services evacuated from Baghdad, analysis of the 
situation in Baghdad and Iraq as a whole becomes ineffective. 
The quickly changing course of street fights leaves any informational updates 
far behind. Direct TV broadcasts are far more evident than any analytics. 
At the same time, we do not have the right to reveal classified, “top secret”
 information. 
Apart from that, our actions meet increasing opposition from the official 
quarters and in fact are turning into confrontation the outcome of which is 
not difficult to forecast. 
Therefore we have to discontinue our work and thank everybody for taking part 
in the project. 

In conclusion we would like to say: 

All the “updates” came out from a compact group formed a few years ago in 
the framework of a special service. The group used to work for the government 
for a long time but all its members have left the service and now act as an 
independent analytical group that has kept some capabilities. This gives an 
answer to the most common question – about the sources of our information. 

We participated in the ongoing events on a “non-profit” basis and had no 
object other than to [with]stand the US-British informational blockade of the 
war in Iraq. 

Our updates were not genuine materials from any of Russian or other special 
services, but rather an “intellectual product” of the group itself, product 
of its operative, informational and analytical abilities. But compiling the 
updates we used materials available from our friends from special information 
structures. The very form “operativnaya informatsiya” never claimed to be “
military information updates” but served as additional data for 
self-dependent analysis. 

The main goal of the project was to present intelligible military analytics 
on the war in Iraq, which is currently missing, to the informational space. 
We had both success and obvious fails along the way. 

We are grateful to the iraqwar.ru and forum.vif2.ru administration that took 
the risk and burden of working with us and we understand how many problems 
they have to endure because of that. 
With all responsibility we state that no messages, letters, appeals and other 
materials, apart from the daily “updates” on iraqwar.ru and forum.vif2.ru 
were made by Ramzaj group and any other statement in our name is nothing but 
mystification. 
The author with the nickname “Kondor” is the only authorized source of 
information about the group and its “official contact person”. In cases of 
uncertainty or “nickname cloning” authentication is possible using his 
personal photo that supplements one of images published on iraqwar.ru and 
comes as its logical continuation. 


With unfailing respect to all of you, 

Ramzaj. 

http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=2238&lang=en
    
    

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