[The following translation of the iraqwar.ru report has
been kindly provided by "Necroman". You can find the original
report in Russian as well as this translation on the iraqwar.ru site. Venik]
April 8, 2003, 1846hrs MSK (GMT +4 DST), Moscow
- Events of the last 2 days have made further
work of Ramzaj group in its current format impossible.
With the 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 quarts 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 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
(source: iraqwar.ru, 04-08-03, translated by Necroman)
